Web applications continue to evolve to support a far richer user experience than in the early days of the Internet. However, delivering these solutions adds complexity and demands additional programming skills. This session provides an overview of how the innovative IBM Rational technology delivered through its new Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) capabilities, helps dramatically simplify the construction of rich user interfaces and their integration with back-end services, transactional systems, and data sources for any platform, including System z and System i. This revolutionary approach enables companies to leverage their valuable IT assets into state-of-the-art SOA-based and web solutions in record time while leveraging existing skills.

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Speaker Bio: Chris was born in The Netherlands, obtained a MsC at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and a PhD at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. At both IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Morgan-Stanley, Chris worked on tools for user interfaces, component infrastructures, and software development environments. He led the OTI Amsterdam lab for 3.5 years, working on WebSphere Studio Device Developer. After that, he worked with IBM Rational in Ottawa on Java runtimes and Eclipse, and co-authored the "Eclipse Frequently Asked Questions" book. Chris delivered many conference presentations and articles, wrote various books on Java and Eclipse, authored articles on "Ajax" on DeveloperWorks, and holds 6 patents. Currently, Chris is product architect of Rational Business Developer (RBD) and development team lead for the EGL Rich UI. Chris is a member of the Enterprise Tooling and Compiler group in IBM Rational.

Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of AJAX Technology Rock Stars!
AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brad Abrams (Microsoft), Danny Allan (Watchfire), Jean-Francois Arcand (Sun Microsystems), Roland Barcia (IBM), Jeffrey Barr (Amazon), Robb Beal (Lazslo Systems), Sumeer Bhola (IBM), Robert Boedigheimer (The Schwan Food Company), David Boloker (IBM), Jeff Brown (G2One), Shane Bryzak (JBoss), Bob Buffone (Nexaweb), Kurt Cagle, Kord Campbell (Splunk), Max Carlson (Lazslo Systems), Marco Cassario (Adobe), Andre Charland (Nitobi), William Cava (Ektron), Frank Cohen (PushToTest), Lauren Cooney (IBM), Rod Cope (OpenLogic), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo), Jnan Dash (Curl), Andy Denmark (TripIt), Andrew Donoho (IBM), Jon Doyle (CommuniGate Systems), Andreas Ecker (1&1 Internet AG), Yakov Fain (Farata Systems), John Fallows (Kaazing), Jon Ferraiola (OpenAjax Alliance), Giuseppe Ferrigno (MomentumSI), Lou Fox (Blue Wolf), Anthony Franco (EffectiveUI), John Fronckowiak (IDC Consulting), Michael Galpin (eBay), Andrea Gazzaniga (Funambol), Evan Gerber (Molecular), Joshua Gertzen (ThinWire), Becky Gibson (IBM), Michael Girouard (Magnani Caruso Dutto), Paul Giurata (Catalyst Resources), Ted Goddard (ICEsoft), Sue Googe (Edream Solutions), Jeremy Grelle (SpringSource), Mike Grushin (SharpStyle Labs), Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems),  Andi Gutmans (Zend), Kevin Hakman (Aptana), Bert Halstead (Curl), James Harmon (Object Training Group), Jeff Haynie (Appcelerator), Mark Heid (IBM), Christian Heilmann (Yahoo), Billy Hoffman (HP), Kevin Hoffman, Kingsley Idehen (OpenLink Software), Jonas Jacobi (Kaazing), Dietrich Kappe (Pathfinder), Chris Keene (Wavemaker), Renat Khasanshyn (Apatar), Scott Kirkwood (MomentumSI), Peter Kirwan (Webmetrics), John Krahulec (ConceptSolutions), Senthil Krishnapillai (Sybase iAnywhere), Steve Maryka (ICEsoft), Mark McIlvane (Velocent Systems), Eric Miraglia (Yahoo), Stewart Nickolas (IBM), Peter Nickolov (3Tera), Emil Ong (Caucho Technology), Mike Padilla (Vanguard), Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM), Guy Peled (Gizmox), Adam Peller (IBM); Olivier Poupeney (DreamFace Interactive), Hooman Radfar (Clearspring),  David Rapperport (Quest Diagnostics),  Scott Regan (Sonoa Systems), Mark Ric (Kaazing), Asaf Saar (SAP Labs), Chris Schalk (Google),  David Schlesinger (ACCESS), Joe Stagner (Microsoft), Jeff Tapper (Digital Primates IT Consulting Services), Shashank Tiwari (Saven Technologies), Ian Tomlin (NDMC), Lars Trieloff (Day Software), Rob Tweed (M/Gateway Developments), Coach Wei (Nexaweb), Matthias Wessendorf (Oracle), Chris Williams (Aptana), Dev Worah (Virtusa).

Sponsors and Exhibitors
SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo events are sponsored by the world's leading AJAX technology providers, including: 3Tera, Adobe, AJAX Matters, Amazon.com, Appcelerator, Apress, Backbase, Bindows, ComponentArt, Conference Guru, Cynergy Systems, DreamFace Interactive, Dynamic Toolbar, Etelos, Extension Media, Farata Systems, Flash Goddess, froglogic, GoingToMeet.com, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, IT Mill, ITtoolbar, JackBe, JetBrains, Kaazing, Kapow Technologies, Krugle, Lazslo Systems, Lightstreamer, M/Gateway Developers, Methods & Tools, Microsoft, Nexaweb, OASIS, OpenSpot, OpSource, Oracle, Parasoft, Passport Corporation, PushToTest, qoodxoo, Quasar Technologies, Rearden Commerce, Servoy, SmartClient/ Isomorphic Software, SnapLogic, Sun Microsystems, Tele Atlas, telerik, The Thomson Corporation, ThinWire, TIBCO Software, TileStack, Universal Mind, Vertex Logic, Visible Measures, Visual WebGui, Web Spiders, Webtide and Zapatec.

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the following international events:

6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo 2008 - West
October 20-22, 2008, San Jose, CA (www.ajaxworld.com)

The Most Distinguished AJAX Faculty at the Upcoming
October 20-22, 2008 Conference San Jose, CA
SYS-CON’s upcoming “6^th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo” faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Brad Abrams (Mcirosoft), Jeffrey Barr (Amazon), David Boloker (IBM), Max Carlson (Openlaszlo.org), William Cava (Ektron), Eric Chiu (imservice), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo), Jnan Dash (Curl), Andy Denmark (TripIt), Andrew Donoho (IBM), Jon Doyle (CommuniGate Systems), Bill Dudney, John Fallows (Kaazing), Jon Ferraiolo (IBM), John Fronckowiak (IDC Consulting), Michael Galpin (eBay), Evan Gerber (Molecular), Michael Girouard (Magani Caruso Dutton), Sue Googe (Edream Solutions), Laurie Gray (OneSpring), Jeremy Grelle (SpringSource), Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems), Thomas Heute (Red Hat), Michael Ho (Quasidea Developments), Billy Hoffman (HP), Kingsley Idehen (OpenLink Software), Jonas Jacobi (Kaazing), Dietrick Kappe (Pathfinder), Yehuda Katz (EngineYard), Chris Keene (Wavemaker), Nate Koechley (Yahoo), John Krahulec (ConceptSolutions), Chris Laffra (IBM), Eric Miraglia (Yahoo), Greg Murray (Sun Microsystems), Adam Polansky (Travelocity), Tatiana Nasser Rafique (SS & C Technologies), John Resig (Mozilla), Rakesh Saha (Oracle), Chris Schalk (Google), Bill Scott (Yahoo), Ian Shelby (Gen X Design), Karthik Shyamsunder (VeriSign), Neil Smithline (OneStopAppSecurity.com), Rossen Stoyanchev (SpringSource), Peter Svensson, Nicholas Thomas (Finicity) and Coach Wei (Nexaweb).