27/Jun IIUG/IBM Webcast: WebSphere & IDS & 4GL - Synopsys & Replay
Folks, as you probably recall, IIUG and IBM hosted a webcast titled "IIUG/IBM Webcast: IDS/WebSphere Integration & I-4GL and WebSphere Studio/EGL Roadmap Interlock" last Friday, 27 June. Pre-registration and attendance were at record levels, demonstrating significant interest in how WebSphere integrates with IDS, and how it is expected to accommodate 4GL. Please find following my signature a synopsis of the event, kindly written by IIUG co-founder and Informix-4GL expert Walt Hultgren. You may also replay the event by visiting http://www.placewareforum.com/eseminars/page.cfm?p=archive&catID=9&subcatID =16086. If the prior URL didn't work, please visit http://www.placewareforum.com/eseminars/page.cfm?p=home and look under "IBM Data Management Events", and then under "Archived Web Events". For more IIUG-sponsored webcasts, keep an eye on the IIUG homepage: http://www.iiug.org. Regards, Fred Hubbard IIUG ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IIUG/IBM Webcast IDS/WebSphere Integration and Informix-4GL/WebSphere/EGL Roadmap June 27, 2003 Hal Maner IIUG Board of Directors Alexander Koerner Informix WebSphere Expert Omkar Nimbalkar Product Manager, IBM Informix Marketing This Webcast presented information on two distinct but related topics: the use of IBM's WebSphere as a development, application server and portal platform; and the planned integration of Informix-4GL into WebSphere Studio's Enterprise Generation Language (EGL). After a brief introduction on IIUG by Hal Maner, Alexander Koerner began by presenting an overview of the WebSphere software platform, including a bit of the history of Informix products such as Internet Foundation. From there, he outlined the architectural relationship of the various components of the WebSphere studio, application server and portal families. Alexander's talk presented details on a number of IDS/WebSphere areas such as J2EE, JSP, servlets, XML support, Web services, MQSeries, portal services, and high availability environments. He pointed out that IDS is now a Tier 1 database for all products of the WebSphere family, and that future versions of IDS will offer additional features for WebSphere support. He also announced the publication of the first IBM Informix Redbook, _Using_Informix_Dynamic_Server_with_WebSphere_. Next, Omkar Nimbalkar discussed plans for integrating Informix-4GL with EGL. Also present were well know experts Jonathan Leffler and Shawn Moe. Omkar presented the rationale behind the choice of this path as the future direction for I4GL. He described the ways in which legacy I4GL green screen text-based features will be preserved while adding capabilities that I4GL developers have been requesting for years. Omkar then outlined the phases in which the implementation will occur for WebSphere 5.x and 6.0. He also showed a roadmap of significant milestones covering the period beginning with the upcoming DM Conference in October and extending to Q4'04. He then provided a technical summary that compared I4GL and EGL, and what the migration strategy will be. Omkar wrapped up his portion of the Webcast with a brief Q&A session that focused mainly on licensing issues. As you might suspect, this Webcast was heavy on substantive details. Even with a longer than usual running length of 90 minutes, time was a bit short. If I could offer any criticism, it would be that each of these topics could easily fill a separate Webcast. However, on balance, I'd rather have this timely information now with a bit less detail than to wait for two full slots to open up in the Webcast schedule. I would recommend viewing this archived Webcast to anyone interested in either of these topics. For more information, see the Webcast corner of the IIUG Web site, www.iiug.org. Walt Hultgren. -- Walt Hultgren Manager, Information Technology Yerkes Research Center of Emory University Mailto:walt@rmy.emory.edu -- 404-727-0648