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