Mid Atlantic Midrange is proud to offer the next in our continuing education seminars, bringing you the best education and educators available in the iSeries world, and to do so at User Group Rates.

A Day Of Java and Websphere Application Development
With IBM’s Claus Weiss of the Toronto Development Lab

This one-day seminar explores issues and techniques that will help you develop applications to be ready for the browser as well as the legacy on your AS/400 and iSeries using the latest and best methods. Our intent is for even the newest OS/400 Java programmer to end the day with the concepts and basic how-to’s of writing their first Java programs and becoming productive with applications in Java and Websphere.

We start the day with The iSeries Developer Roadmap. Many iSeries developers are confused in today's world of e-business about what their options are to enhance their skills, while many architects are confused about how to move their applications forward. You don't have to become a Java or even a WebSphere expert, although you very well might want to. This session will clearly lay out for an iSeries developer a specific series of incremental stages to progress through, to move your skills and applications from SEU-plus-RPG to WebSphere Studio-plus-Java, or simply to a Web user interface with modern RPG.

Then we move on to: Java for RPG programmers. Java, Java, Java. RPG, RPG, RPG. Do they relate? Will the coming Java train leave me at the station with my RPG baggage? Can I learn Java? Come and see the Java language from an RPG programmer?s perspective and see why Java is well within your capabilities. Java, after all, is not a cup of coffee, but another language that can mix very well with your RPG code.

Which is followed by: User Interface modernization with the IBM WebFacing tool. The IBM WebFacing tool is an integral part of the WebSphere Development Studio Client product. It allows to convert existing DDS UI descriptions to Web based Java Server Page descriptions to easily modernize current text based UI applications  by giving them a browser enabled User Interface.

In this session, learn:

1. How this WebFacing tool will convert your existing DDS source into JSPs and XML.
2. How WebFacing  provide a server runtime environment that allows your existing iSeries programs (RPG and others) to communicate with these converted browser enabled screens

We end the day with RPG and COBOL tools in WebSphere Development Studio (WDSC): The Remote System Explorer (RSE). The Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) is the development environment within WebSphere Development Studio client that allows you to develop RPG and COBOL applications. This development tool is the 21st century follow-on to the world of SEU, SDA, PDM, etc and even CODE/ 400. All the things that a developer might wish were possible with a green screen are in the RSE and some that you haven't even thought of yet!! Other benefits include improving programmer productivity and morale, off-loading host development workload and allowing existing applications to be maintained more effectively.

Those wishing to attend the evening User Group Meeting following the Tuesday Evening session in College Park should also RSVP to KB Soni at kbsoni@aol.com. The subject of the evening meeting is RPG IV - the Next Stuff and Beyond.

Claus Weiss is an advisory software consultant with the iSeries Application Development Tools team at the IBM Canada Toronto Laboratory. He has an Industrial Engineer degree and a  Computer Science degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Claus worked as a systems engineer with IBM Germany and joined the IBM Toronto Laboratory in 1984. He was a developer and teamleader for System/38 development tools and has been a member of the Design Control Group for the AS/400 development tools. Claus has worked as a planner for iSeries Application Development for the past ten years specializing in Visual Tools. Claus is a frequent speaker at COMMON and other iSeries conferences. Claus is the co-author of the  book, Understanding the IBM WebFacing tool, published by IBM Press and several IBM Redbooks.

This course starts at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM and will be held on:

February 23, 2004 at the Richmond Airport Holiday Inn in Richmond, VA.
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February 24, 2004 at the Holiday Inn, 3400 Ft. Meade Road, Laurel, MD - Phone: 301-498-0900 or 410-792-0313
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February 26, 2004 at the Holiday Inn in Fort Washington.

The course fee is $250 per day for non-user group members and $225 per day for user group members. A cancellation fee of $50 will be assessed for cancellations within 7 days of the event. This fee offering is a special arrangement between Washington Area Midrange Users Group and MidAtlantic Midrange. Members of other AS/400 User groups may also apply under the user group rate.

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