KEYNOTES

For the last 50 years, COBOL has been the enterprise language of choice for most businesses. There is a mind boggling 250bn lines of COBOL code in the world today and every day there are 200 times more COBOL transactions than Google searches. Whilst many programming languages have come and gone, Cobol has managed to stay ahead of the curve.

Learn how Cobol touches all of us in everyday life and hear how organisations are working to bring a “new” Cobol to existing new age developers in a way they already understand, without the need for huge amounts of re-training. Updates range from new graphical user interfaces for developers to replace the outdated command-line interface, bringing Cobol into the “cloud”, where applications are hosted online instead of only being installed on a desktop, server, or mainframe. Cobol being more than relevant today and ubiquitously present, continues to grow its footprint despite the decades of technological changes that have questioned its importance, and largely failed, to replace it.

Participate in the workshops to know what opportunities lie ahead for all of us.

IEEE Computer Society serves the information and career-development needs of computing professionals with technical journals, magazines, conferences, books, online courses, and software professional certification credentials. The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library provides access to more than 250,000 articles and papers from 1,600 conference proceedings and to all available issues of 26 CS periodicals. The Computer Society's new Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) program assures potential employers that beginning software development and software engineering associates can perform on real-world projects and is the first step towards becoming a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP), which assure a software developer's full professional competence.

You want to build great software, and to do so you need more than skills than just coding. A full team comprising of business analysts, architects, developer, testers, project managers, and operations manager needs to come together to create the magic of great software worthy for today’s enterprises. To make this happen you need a development platform and tools that seamlessly, transparently, and effectively bridge the requirements for all the roles and orchestrate a great development experience. Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 introduces a new and improved tooling platform that addresses the needs of the entire application development lifecycle, enabling teams to build great software. In this demo filled session you will get a great overview of this platform and tools.

In this plenary, Jens will explain how Sony Ericsson Developer World can help you (the developer community in India) maximize your consumer reach.

• What application or service should you develop (based on what sells in consumer and operator channels)?
• Which platform or runtimes should you target to maximize your reach with less porting and development (overview of SE developer platforms and runtimes)?
• Which business model should you use (to maximize consumer uptake)?
• Partnership and distribution opportunities through Sony Ericsson Developer World and PlayNow

Crystal Reports enables you to create complex and professional reports in a GUI-based program. You can connect your report to almost any data source, as well as to proxy data, such as a result set (for example, an ADO.NET DataSet). The wizards that are included in the GUI designer make it easy to format, group, chart, and present data. Crystal Reports is integrated directly into the Visual Studio .NET development environment. You can host your report in either a web or Windows application with one of the Crystal Reports viewer controls, or use the extensive API to interact with the report programmatically at runtime.

Apart from developing Web solutions using the .Net and Java. Crystal Reports also integrates with Enterprise portals, with Portal Integration Kits available for Oracle, integrating with Microsoft SharePoint Portal and so on. To provide business users with a personalized, single, secure view of corporate information, use the BusinessObjects XI SharePoint 2007 Portal Integration Kit to integrate content directly with your .NET based corporate portal. And use the BusinessObjects XI Java Portal Integration Kit to integrate content directly with your Java based corporate portal.

To expedite data connectivity and formatting using an intuitive design environment. To minimize the repetitive and tedious nature of embedding dynamic, formatted data into your JSP pages, and reduce application maintenance churn by separating data connectivity and presentation from core application code, use Crystal Reports for Java. Use Crystal Reports to create and render reports as an integral part of your J2EE applications. BEA WebLogic Serve ™, IBM WebSphere® Application Server, and Apache Tomacat are supported.

In this exciting plenary session, Ananth will walk you through some of the most complelling trends in RIA development. Come to this keynote to upgrade and update your knowledge of RIA development.