Speakers presentation

Tuesday, 16th of May - Cité de l'espace

 Dirk BAUEMER 

  Biography

Dirk Baeumer has been a committer on the Eclipse project since it began, working as a senior developer on JFace, the generic workbench and the Java development tooling. He led the Eclipse JDT/UI component and was a member of the Eclipse architecture team. In 2006 Dirk is helping to lead efforts within the IBM Rational Eclipse-based product development teams. His interests are in the areas of user interfaces, integrated development environments and object oriented software architectures.

A Tour of the Eclipse Technologies: Equinox, SWT, RCP and more!

Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is mostly known as an open source project dedicated to providing a robust platform for Developing highly integrated tools. The platform itself consists of a couple of key technologies (Equinox, SWT, scalable plug-in model, RCP, ...) which can be used as stand-alone components as well. This talk gives an overview on these technologies and how they can be used for application development in various industries.

Inside Eclipse: The Platform and the Process

This talk opens by describing the history, the characteristics of its open source model and the platform architecture of Eclipse. Next it sheds light onto the Eclipse development process by exploring the practices used by the Eclipse team to ship quality software on time. These practices include iterative development, the planning process, and the end-game. The talk provides many insights on how things are done - including the development mantras  "Always Beta", "Milestones First", "API First", "Finishing" and "Consume your own output".

 By Dirk BAEUMER – IBM Rational Software 

 Ralph MUELLER

    Biography

Ralph Mueller has worked in the software industry as a computer scientist for over 20 years. After working for Object Technology International, Ralph Mueller has worked for IBM where he spent 5 years as Solutions Architect for the European Automotive industry.

Today, Mr Mueller is Eclipse Ecosystem Europe Director : in permanent relation with Eclipse users – companies across Europe - he has a lot of feedback. These ones permit him to put in relation every one of these actors, in order to develop and perpetuate Eclipse Ecosystem.

Eclipse Ecosystem 

Eclipse ecosystem is the element which permits to this tool to be so popular : composed of engineers and companies, the ecosystem permits Eclipse to beneficiate of many developments, corrections… : that’s why it’s today a reliable tool which is so used by companies, big or small. How does this Ecosystem work? How does it transform Eclipse in a so much popular tool ?

 Recognized as a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, Mr Mueller can explain a company how to use Eclipse in order to make him a strategic tool, how to make it productive.

 Branislav SELIC

 Biography

Bran Selic is an IBM Distinguished Engineer at IBM Canada. At IBM he is a member of the CTO team, where he is responsible for defining the strategic direction for Rational’s tools strategy for the technical domain. Bran has close to 40 years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale industrial software systems and has pioneered the application of model-driven development methods in real-time applications. Bran is also directly involved in the definition of several international standards related to the technical space and is currently chair of the OMG committee responsible for defining the UML 2 standard.

 The design, development, and deployment of modern technical systems is a complex and many-faceted problem that cannot be adequately solved unless it is supported by suitable computer-based tooling. In addition to core design tools, it requires a full eco-system of mutually complementary and compatible tools. This includes,among others, tools for product and project management, requirements capture, process guidance, design analysis, verification, documentation, configuration management, etc. In this presentation, we first outline the Rational's strategic direction for the technical systems domain and then describe the key components of that strategy. Two fundamental pillars of the chosen strategy are reliance on open standards, to ensure compatibility and extensibility, and an emphasis on governance, to ensure a comprehensive and consistent product strategy which delivers products that fulfill actual customer needs.

By Branislav SELIC, IBM Rational Software  

 Sylvain WALLEZ

 Biography

 Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, Sylvain Wallez is an expert in opensource solutions and strategies based on this model. Since 2000, Sylvain Wallez is "Research and Technologies" Director, at Anyware Technologies : he has many years of experience in developing opensource solutions, in consulting, and works with many companies to present them the issues related to these technologies. 

  Open source software has changed large parts of the software industry landscape in a few period. Products produced by large organizations such as the Eclipse Foundation or the Apache Software Foundation are used worldwide by millions of people and included in thousands of commercial products.

This talk will introduce the origins of open source software and its mains achievements, and explain why no company using or developing software can't ignore the opensource movement. We will present the ecosystem that exists around open source software : the benefits for users, the risks and oppotunities for software vendors.

Finally, we will explain we will explain how Anyware Technologies, from a simple user,  has become a major contributor to several open source projects and why it is now a strategic activity in the company.

By Sylvain Wallez, Vice President of the Software Apache Foundation

and "Research and Technologies"  Director at Anyware Technologies