Presentation Topic Suggestions from the Program Committee

Track session topics

PRESENTATION IDEAS (Just to get you thinking...)

The committee invites you propose track presentations, BOFs, and kiosks. The following list is only a general guide to possible topics. Any proposal that fits the spirit and interests of the JA-SIG will be considered for inclusion.

• Community Source governance models - the models that have been seen to work
• Initiating a community source project - championing the project, engaging stakeholders, selecting services ...
• Marketing the community source to enterprise stakeholders and decision makers
• Success Stories with community source in higher education
• The role of the designer in contribution-based open source projects

• Development frameworks - e.g. Spring
• Development technologies - e.g. AJAX
• JavaServer Faces (JSF)
• ORM (object-relational mapping) technologies - e.g. Hibernate, iBatis
• Open source projects such as Sakai, Kuali, OSP, and CAS
• Code management tools - e.g. CVS and Subversion
• JA-SIG projects - uPortal, HyperContent, CAS
  • Central Authentication Service highlights
• Calendaring projects - e.g. Bedework
• MVC (Model/View/Controller) frameworks and techniques
• Aspect Oriented Programming - e.g. AspectJ, Spring AOP
• Unit testing tools - e.g. JUnit, DBUnit, Cactus, HttpUnit
• Workflow - e.g. Spring Workflow, Oracle Workflow
• Identity Management - vendor products, Internet2 middleware
• Collaborative development successes and failures
• End-user usability through Java tools or Java architectural concepts
• SSO deployment
• Testing strategies
• JMX (Java Management Extensions)
• Enterprise application integration - e.g. Banner, iCalendar, PeopleSoft
• WSRP
• Institutional policies - privacy, access control etc.
• IDEs and communtity source
• Testing and QA for community source products - regression and compliance suites
• JIRA
• Community Source Support issues - integrating help support (including user feedback) and technical support
• Single sign-on obstacles and solutions
• Privacy issues and solutions (e.g. FERPA)

• Open/Closed development approaches - particularly for channels and portlets
• Panel on Community Source Investment - management viewpoints
• Logging - Effective conventions and techniques
• Ask the experts panel - Q&A session with pre-written and from-the-audience questions
• Work-In-Progress session - a collection of brief presentations on undertakings not yet ready for a full presentation

• Non-Java development environments - e.g. Ruby on Rails
• JRuby – Java and Ruby integration and coexistance
• SOA in the Open Source community
• WS-* and Open Source
• load testing tools - e.g. jMeter, Mercury Load Runner
• Deployment strategies - e.g. deploying applications in clustered environment
• Targeted Message Application
• Clustered Cache Implementations
• Notification Services
• Beginner CVS
• Design Patterns
• Portal issues
  • Portal Trends: Technology and Uses
  • Portal Usability
  • Portal Strategies
  • High value portal guest pages
  • End User Adoption
  • Portals and Service-Oriented Architectures
  • JSR 286
  • Legal issues around portal implementations
  • Kiosk demonstrations for interesting channel/portlet solutions
  • Channel/Portlet development strategies

• uPortal Topics
  • Shibboleth and uPortal
  • uPortal Demos - Case Studies (Release 2.x, Release 3.x)
  • uPortal Roadmap Implementation - Strategy
  • uPortal and Sakai
  • uPortal 3
  • uPortal 3 Goals and Progress
  • uPortal 2.6
  • uPortal 2.5.3
  • UBC Webmail Technical Workshop - a gathering of Webmail developers and enhancers
  • uPortal user interface customization - a hands on demonstration or workshop
  • Sakai uPortal Integration Process
  • Workflow Interpretation with uPortal
• Beginning Project Management
• Open EAI
• E-Science/Grid