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| Seminar: |
Application Server Bootcamp |
| Lecturer(s): |
Jeff Tash |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Objectives: |
- Understand how application server technology
enables web-based self-service style enterprise solutions for employees, customers, partners and suppliers
- Discover how application servers differ from traditional client / server computing
- Identify the key technology issues critical for designing, developing and deploying distributed application server-based
systems
- Learn what differentiates various competitive application server products.
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| Seminar Topics: |
- extensive analysis of Application Server technologies
- comprehensive description of Application Server Functionality
- in-depth examination of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)
- in-depth examination of Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and COM+
- comparative review of leading Application Server Products
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
Jeffrey B. Tash is the president of Hewitt
Technologies (formerly Database Decisions), an information technology education
and consulting firm founded in 1985. Acquired in 1988, Hewitt Technologies
is a wholly owned division of Hewitt Associates LLC, a leading consultancy
in corporate benefits, compensation, and human resources. Mr. Tash
specializes in emerging information technologies. His expertise spans
client/server computing, component-based object-oriented software development,
and Internet / Intranet / Extranet application development and deployment. |
| Location: |
MIT room 54-100, Green Building |
| Date: |
Saturday, 10/16/1999 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Wednesday, 10/06/1999
Regular Price: $90.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Jay Conne |
Directions: |
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| Books: |
| Title: | High Performance Client/Server |
| Author(s): | Chris Loosely |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
| List price: | $44.99 |
| PDS price: | $30.00 |
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