November RTP WebSphere User Group Links

IBM RTP Briefing Center – Image CC licensed by Ryan Boyles

Here are some handy links from the November Triangle WebSphere User Group meeting. The meeting and lab went quite well, with around 30 people in attendance at the IBM Executive Briefing Center at the IBM main site in Research Triangle Park, NC on November 30th.

• RTP WUG meeting announcements presentation
• Charles Le Vay's blog recap
• Configure WebSphere application to use XC10 appliance to store http session objects video demo on YouTube
• HTTP session fail-over between two Datacenters video demo on YouTube
• IBM WebSphere Datapower XC10 appliance Top Ten FAQ article
• Meeting preview by Ryan Boyles
• OSGi Lab introduction slides by Ryan Boyles
• OSGi apps to JEE apps comparison table
• OSGi primer presentation by Holly Cummins (PDF)
• Apache Aries project for OSGi
• WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for OSGi and JPA 2.0
• Redbook for WAS Feature Pack for OSGi and JPA 2.0
• Triangle WebSphere User Group on GWC
• OSGi bookmarks on the WebSphere Emerge community
• Ian Robinson's OSGi blog

Join us for November RTP WebSphere User Group meeting

We have an exciting November WebSphere User Group meeting in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina at the IBM Software Group customer briefing center.

First up, my WebSphere Emerge teammate Charlie Le Vay will give a live demo of HTTP session caching and fail-over capabilities provided by the IBM Datapower XC10 appliance. He recently published a top ten FAQ about the appliance based on workshops he has given recently. Bring your questions about elastic caching to the meeting for Charlie.

For the reminder of the meeting, we are hosting a hands-on lab to give developers a chance to try the OSGi tooling available for WebSphere Application Server. This lab will provide a good look at importing, deploying, managing and developing application bundles with Rational Application Developer Standard Edition 8.0. The lab will also touch on JPA. Your co-hosts for this lab are Nichole Stewart from the WebSphere system test team, Lin Sun from the WebSphere OSGi / JPA Feature Pack development team and Apache Aries project, and myself, Ryan Boyles, your friendly neighborhood technical evangelist.

The meeting will be held Tuesday November 30 at 6pm. You can RSVP for the meeting on the Triangle group event page of the WebSphereUserGroup.org website. Food and drinks will be provided as usual. Thanks also to organizers Greg Ackerman and Ken Gelsinger for assisting with lab set-up. As a convenience for you, I've linked each of our names to our WebSphereUserGroup.org profiles.

See you there,

Ryan Boyles

@WebSphereEmerge

Introduction presentation: OSGi Lab for RTP WebSphere User Group

Thanks to Ian Robinson, Holly Cummins and Zoe Slattery for providing OSGi background.

Note: Here is a handy Google map for the IBM briefing center location in RTP. The briefing center is noted with the Big Blue thumb tack.

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