Choose-news September 2003

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by Rubattel Claude

Dear CHOOSE Members As one of the events in the seminar serie "Distributed Software Systems" by the University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland, a Web Services Day will take place on Tuesday 21st october 2003 in Olten on the theme 'Web services - from the technology to the application" Have a look to www.fhso.ch/wb/informatik/webservice.htm See you in Olten Best regards Claude Rubattel University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland (Fachhochschule Solothurn Nordwestschweiz) Riggenbachstrasse 16, 4600 Olten / Switzerland choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/

21 years, 2 months

[Tutorial] SCRUM: A Methodology to Keep the Team Going

by ducasse

SSUG the Swiss Smalltalk User Group in collaboration with CHOOSE is glad to invite you to the next half-day tutorial given by J. Pelrine (MetaProg GmbH): "SCRUM: A Methodology to Keep the Team Going" on tuesday, October 14th 2003 from 14h to 18h at the IAM Room 001. http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ssug/Events/20031014.html Scrum, one of the agile processes, has been used to develop systems and products since 1995 on thousands of projects in hundreds of organizations. Scrum implements in several days and delivers increments of functionality within thirty days. Scrum wraps existing engineering practices. Because Scrum is a development management process, it has also been used for such projects as marketing, research, and hardware product development. In this talk, we'll discuss how Scrum and all agile processes work, the theory behind them and their underlying practices of inspection and adaptation. Then weíll look at Scrum's detailed practices of iterations, increments of code, emergence of requirements and design, and self-organization of teams. Through these practices, Scrum introduces a heartbeat of regular productivity to an organization that foments customer and engineering collaboration. If XP is wrapped by Scrum, XP's engineering practices ensure the quality of this code and stability of the emerging product, while Scrum provides the organizational framework which allows development to flourish. References: Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, Agile Software Development with Scrum (First edition), Alan R. Apt, 2001. Mike Beedle, Martine Devos, Yonat Sharon, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, “SCRUM: A Pattern Language for Hyperproductive Software Development,” Pattern Languages of Program Design 4 , Neil Harrison, Brian Foote and Hans Rohnert (Eds.), pp. 637-652, Addison Wesley, 2000. Biography Joseph Pelrine is CO of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. In addition to being one of Europeís most experienced eXtreme Programming practitioners and coaches, he is also Europe's first certified ScrumMaster. Tutorial Fees 140 CHF for Choose member 120 CHF for SSUG members (in fact 100 CHF + 20 CHF for registration) 80 CHF for students 200 CHF SI member 250 CHF others SSUG Sponsors: Daedalos Consulting AG ( http://www.daedalos.ch ), iFace AG ( http://www.iface.ch ), Object-Oriented Limited ( http://www.object-oriented.com ). REGISTRATION Fill in the form below and sent it to tschmid(a)iam.unibe.ch . You will then receive an invoice from the University of Berne. I want to register to the SCRUM tutorial held at Bern the 14 October 2003. Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Company Address: ______________________________________ Company ZIP/City: ______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] SUGS member [ ] students [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member

21 years, 3 months

[CHOOSE] CHOOSE Forum 2003: New Features in the Java 2 Standard Edition 1.5

by Igor Metz

The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to the upcoming CHOOSE Forum 2003 in Bern. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHOOSE Forum 2003 CHOOSE Forum November 3, 2003 and CHOOSE General Assembly "New Features in the Java 2 Standard Edition 1.5" Speaker ------- Angelika Langer, langer(a)camelot.de Abstract -------- The upcoming release 1.5 of the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) will add a number of major and minor new language features and library extensions. The most significant addition to the Java programming language are generic types and methods. The most substantial addition to the Java platform libraries are the new concurrency utilities. * Java Generics A common misconception regarding generics is its comparison to C++ templates. Many people believe that Java generics are similar to C++ templates, while in fact both features have barely anything in common: C++ templates is a Turing complete language - Java generics is syntactic sugar that elides some casting. Java generics are a pure compiletime feature that is translated to non-generic Java bytecode, for reasons of compatibility with previous versions of Java. In this tutorial, we will take a look into the proposed language feature, how it will help us improve our programs, how it is supposed to be used and where its limitations are. More specifically, we will discuss the additions made to the language itself (parameterised types and methods as well as covariant return types), changes to the platform libraries (generic collections and extended reflection) and various exciting details of generics such as the properties of type parameters (their bounds and their scope), generic methods and type parameters inference, and the translation of generics into bytecode. * Concurrency Utilities The Java platform provides basic, low-level primitives for writing concurrent programs, but they are difficult to use properly. Many programs become clearer, shorter, faster, easier to write, and more reliable if higher-level synchronisation constructs are used. A comprehensive library of concurrency utilities has been developed for inclusion in the 1.5 release of J2SE. This library, known as the util.concurrent package, contains thread pools, queues, concurrent collections, special-purpose locks, barriers, and related utilities. The addition to the Java platform is substantial and will change the way we will implement concurrent Java applications. This tutorial gives an overview of the new library. Enums, Autoboxing, etc. Some smaller additions to the programming language comprise syntax for enumeration types, an enhanced for-loop, static imports, autoboxing, and varargs. The seminar will be held in English. Agenda for the CHOOSE General Assembly -------------------------------------- Please note that the General Assembly will be held during the CHOOSE Forum. All CHOOSE members are kindly invited to participate. 1.President's report. Activities since the last General Assembly. 2.Treasurer's report for 2002. 3.Miscellaneous. Important notice ----------------- The seating is limited for this event. Register early! Registrations will be handled on a first come first served basis. If you intend to register on site, check availability in advance. Up to date information about CHOOSE, and the CHOOSE Forum, can be found at the CHOOSE home page <http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE>. There you will also find the necessary links of the conference location.

21 years, 3 months

[choose] Naked Objects SIG Beer -- Wed. Oct 8 -- Uni BE

by Oscar Nierstrasz

The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Franz Achermann (Swisscom) on Naked Objects. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE. NOTE: registration for this event is required. Please fill out the registration form at the end of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Naked Objects ============= Wednesday October 8, 2003 @ 17h00 Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universität Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hörsaal 001 Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Speaker ------- Dr. Franz Achermann, Swisscom Agenda ------ 17h00 - 18h00 Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract -------- In conventional approaches to business systems design, the business domain objects such as Customer, Product or Order, are masked from the user by two intervening layers: a 'presentation' layer that manages the user interface and a 'controller' or 'application' layer (also called the 'process' or 'task' layer) that defines all the possible user tasks and scripts the interaction between the user interface and the underlying objects. Below the domain layer is a persistence layer, which is most commonly based on a relational database. Writing a business application implies not only writing all four layers, but also translating the requirements from the user presentation into the different representations used in each layer. And the same effort is involved for each subsequent change in requirements. In the naked objects approach writing a business application implies writing only the business domain objects themselves. All business functionality is implemented as behaviours or methods on those objects - the objects can be described as being 'behaviourally complete'. These business objects are then presented directly and automatically to the user, by means of a completely generic viewing mechanism. In the talk, I will present the naked objects approach and describe its (advocated) benefits for developers and end users. Bio --- Franz Achermann works as a research and development engineer at Swisscom Innovations, where he is involved in J2EE application projects as a programmer and consultant. His interests include software engineering, formal methods, and development methodologies. He holds a PhD from the university of Bern for his work on the composition language Piccola. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: Naked Objects -- Oct 8, 2003 Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/

21 years, 3 months

[Reminder] CHOOSE: Why not use cases?

by Igor Metz

The CHOOSE executive board is glad to invite you to the next talk given by Dr. Richard Mitchell (InferData, Austin, TX, USA): "Why not use cases?" on Thursday, September 11. 2003. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE. NOTE: registration for this event is required. See registration form at the end of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why not use cases? ================== September 11. 2003 Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universität Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hörsaal 001 Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Speaker ------- Dr Richard Mitchell, InferData, Austin, TX, USA Agenda ------ 17:00 - 18:15h Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract -------- Use cases are central to most software development processes based on the modelling language UML. Use cases help specifiers organise system requirements around different kinds of users. Use cases do not capture business rules. In some development processes, this is a serious weakness. This talk will take a use case and from it develop a model that does capture business rules. The talk will briefly discuss what kinds of development processes can benefit from modelling, and some of the consequences of persisting with approaches based on use cases. Bio --- Richard Mitchell is a senior consultant for InferData Ltd of Austin, Texas, a small consulting and training company specializing in model-driven development of enterprise applications. Richard has helped many companies build precise models of parts of their businesses, and has trained many business analysts in modelling skills. Richard is the lead author of "Design by Contract, by Example," which describes the application to programming of the modelling principles used in his talk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: 11.9. Use cases Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/

21 years, 3 months

7. - 10.10.03 /ch/open Workshop-Tage

by Swiss Open Systems User Group

Sehr geehrte CHOOSE-Mitglieder Die Swiss Open Systems möchte Sie aufmerksam machen auf die diesjährigen Workshop-Tage, welche in Zusammenarbeit mit der Java User Group Switzerland und mit dem Departement für Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik der ETH Zürich organisiert wird. 7.-9.10.: /ch/open Workshop-Tage in Zürich 9.-10.10.: CampEclipse Plug-in Clinic ========================================== <http://www.ch-open.ch/wstage/03/> Hier ein kurzer Überblick über die Workshops dieses Jahres: Di 7. Oktober ------------- WS 1: Web server (Perl/PHP/MySQL) Howto WS 2: Certificate Based Web Access - Secure Your Apache Serve WS 3: Der kreative Umgang mit Stress (Wie kann ich meinen persönlichen Druck reduzieren?) WS 4: Unit Testing with Java Mi 8. Oktober ------------- WS 5: Nie mehr programmieren!?! Die Model-Driven-Architecture praktisch erprobt WS 6: Streaming Media WS 7: Six Sigma für Kosteneinsparungen in der ICT WS 8: New Features in J2SE 1.5: Generic, Concurrency Utiltiies, Enums, etc. Do 9. Oktober ------------- WS 9: Extending Eclipse: building your first plugin WS 10: Cocoon und Lenya WS 11: Authentifizierung, Autorisierung, Accounting und Payment in J2ME-Anwendungen WS 12: Marketing für kleine und mittelgrosse IT-Unternehmen WS 13: Refactorings of a Simple Mind Do/Fr 9./10. Oktober -------------------- CampEclipse Plug-in Clinic Alle weiteren Details zu den Workshops sowie das Anmeldeformular finden Sie auf unserer Homepage <http://www.ch-open.ch/wstage/03/> Übrigens: Für alle, die das Programm lieber auf Papier durchlesen als auf dem Bildschirm, ist sowohl vom Gesamtprogramm als auch von den einzelnen Workshops eine Print-Version verfügbar. Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Anmeldungen! Mit freundlichen Grüssen Ursula Burri ------------------------------------------------------------------ Swiss Open Systems User Group Tel.: ++41 1 350 26 56 (freitags) /ch/open Fax: ++41 1 350 26 55 Postfach 2322 E-mail: <mailto:info@ch-open.ch> CH-8033 Zuerich WWW: <http://www.ch-open.ch> Sekretariat Ursula Burri E-mail: <mailto:uburri@ch-open.ch> ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. - 10.10.03: /ch/open-Workshoptage: <http://www.ch-open.ch/wstage/03/> choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/

21 years, 3 months

[choose] Reminder -- Software-Tomography talk Monday Oct 8

by Oscar Nierstrasz

The CHOOSE executive board is glad to invite you to the next talk given by Dr. Walter Bischofberger (Software-Tomography GmbH): "Software-Tomography – Supporting Large-Scale Software Development with a new Generation of Static Analysis Tools" on Monday, September 8. 2003. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE NOTE: registration for this event is required. See registration form at the end of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Software-Tomography – Supporting Large-Scale Software Development with a new Generation of Static Analysis Tools ================================================================= September 8. 2003 Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universität Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hörsaal 001 Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Speaker ------- Dr. Walter Bischofberger (Software-Tomography GmbH) Agenda ------ 17:00 - 18:15h Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract -------- Today many questions remain unanswered during the development and evolution of large-scale object-oriented software systems. Questions that can be answered with software-tomographs are, for example: * Does the implementation correspond to the intended architecture? Did somebody break the architectural guidelines yesterday? Is the current reengineering effort converging towards the new architecture? Are my components only used through EJB invocations? * How is the library, we are evolving, used by its current clients? Can I discard parts of the library because they are not used? Which interfaces are used heavily and have to remain stable? Which subsystems depend on this interface? * Which parts of the source code have to be investigated with special emphasis during the next code review? Are there problematic parts in our software system, which continuously grow worse over time? This talk shows, based on practical examples, how Software-Tomography’s Sotograph could help to answer these questions, to improve the quality of your software and to streamline your software development. Further information is available at www.software-tomography.com Bio --- Dr. Walter Bischofberger is working on tools for software development for almost 20 years. Among others he developed a user interface generator, the multi-language programming environment SNiFF+ and the cooperative development environment Beyond-Sniff. During the last four years he has been working on a software-tomograph, a new generation of static analysis tools supporting large-scale code comprehension and quality analysis. The resulting technology is practically applied by software quality consultants since 2001 and marketed since the beginning of 2003 by Software-Tomography GmbH. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: 8.9 Software Tomography Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/

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