Explore the emerging cross-platform rapid development environment that enables you to transforEm and modernize your IBM i and IBM z applications, and build J2EE/Java -based/SOA Web applications using EGL - without learning Java.

Audience

• Software programmers with 2+ years of experience using a computing language or platform, such as: COBOL, RPG, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, Java, C/C++, MS-Access.

Duration

• 10 days. 2 hours of e-conference time, 3 - 5 additional hours of lab and workshop time/per day

Dates/Times

• September 29 --> October 10th
• e-Conferences are at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM Eastern Time

Description

• This instructor-led, deep-technical and free workshop offered by IBM, will provide an opportunity for you to learn EGL through e-conference-led presentations, and extensive hands-on labs, and experience EGL using Rational® Business Developer.
• Each day, the instructor will present two separate Web seminars to demonstrate techniques that include the Eclipse workbench, Rational Business Developer tooling, EGL, data access, JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology, and Service-Oriented Architecture topics.
• After the Web seminars, you will be given exercises that include the topics of that day to complete.
• The workshops and hands-on lab exercises associated with the daily Web seminars will take between 3 to 5 hours a day to complete.
• An instructor will be available for questions during the business day.

To sign up - Send an eMail to Jon Sayles: jsayles@us.ibm.com - that includes the following information:

• Name/eMail address
• Company
• IBM contact
• Reason for attending (what you intend to use EGL for, at the end of class)
• Country/State/City

The cut-off date for enrolling is: Monday, September 22nd 5:00 PM.

EGL/SOA Application Development with RBD*

EGL language and Rational Business Developer rapid development tools. When you finish, you will be able to use the Business Developer tools, create services, and code EGL and SQL.

Prerequisites

• At least two years of experience using a software programming language, for example, RPG, COBOL, PL/1, Visual Basic, or PowerBuilder.
• A working knowledge of SQL, computer skills, and a basic understanding of Web technologies is assumed.

Agenda

• The Eclipse IDE - for IBM i and IBM z developers
• Rational Business Developer Extension Workbench development
• Introduction and deep-dive into the EGL language (EGL for business - "A to Z")
• Creating, consuming, services and using 3rd party WSDLs
• EGL database and sequential file access
• EGL calling Java program
• EGL calling System i and System z resources - Calling mainframe databases, RPG programs and IBM i dataqueues and data areas, COBOL/CICS programs

EGL/JavaServer Faces and Rich User Interface (Web 2.0) Technology

When you finish, you will be able to use the Business Developer tools, EGL, JSF and rich user interface to design and create no-compromise Web sites and Web pages.

Prerequisites

• The EGL/Rational Business Developer technical workshop
• At least two years of experience using a software programming language, for example, RPG, COBOL, PL/1, Visual Basic, or PowerBuilder.
• A working-knowledge of SQL, computer skills, and a basic understanding of Web technologies is assumed.

Agenda

Rational Business Developer Web site development tools
Template pages:

• IBM-supplied
• Custom
• The EGL/JSF programming model
• JSF lifecycle
• JSF components - deep dive
• Using JavaScript with JSF
• AJAX enabling your application
• Essential JSF page patterns for Enterprise Modernization
• Web 2.0 programming model - EGL/Rich user interface introduction, Using JavaScript with rich user interface, Rich user interface applications