Spring 2008 Topic Suggestions

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
• 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
  • 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
  • CASifying uPortal
  • Developing a Custom uPortal Channel Type
  • 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
  • Moodle uPortal Integration Process
  • Sakai uPortal Integration Process
  • Workflow Interpretation with uPortal
  • Web Proxy Channel and Portlet

• Sakai Topics
  • ...

• Beginning Project Management
• Open EAI
• E-Science/Grid
• Recent Unicon Opensource Activity
• BOF or How-to on Setting up a uPortal/CAS/Portlets Java Development Environment
• Becoming a uPortal/CAS developer/committer