 | Type: developerWorks Live! briefing
Each multi-day event provides several different sessions designed to give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with Rational software development tools.
Audience
Developers, professionals, software engineers, academic personnel
Duration
2 - 3 days
Description
Hands-on sessions are scheduled over 2 to 3 days to accommodate your
schedule. Each session provides a half-day opportunity to work with the
products in a lab environment. Speakers will take you through the material at
a pace designed to let everyone participate.
See the agenda information for each city. Start and stop times vary by city.
Cities and schedule
Pittsburgh, PA
This 2 day event provides a hands-on opportunity to use a variety of IBM
Rational software development tools and experience their broad range of functionality first hand. See
briefing descriptions below.
Agenda
Morning registration and complimentary breakfast: 8:30am
Morning sessions: 9:00am - 12:30pm
Complimentary lunch: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Afternoon registration: 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Afternoon sessions: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
| Date | Briefing | Session |
|---|
| 25 June | Architecture | Morning | | 25 June | Testing | Morning | | 25 June | Requirements | Afternoon | | 25 June | Hacking 101 | Afternoon | | 26 June | Hacking 101 | Morning | | 26 June | CARM | Morning | | 26 June | Architecture | Afternoon | | 26 June | Eclipse | Afternoon | | Choose your sessions when you register. |
Descriptions of briefings
The table below is a collection of sessions offered at various mini conferences world-wide.
Each mini conference has a subset of these sessions;
Not all sessions are offered in each city.
Schedules and content for each city are listed in the respective sections above.
| Briefing | Description | Duration |
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Architecture
Architecture, design, and construction using the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform | Get hands-on experience on the latest version of the IBM Rational Software Development tools, and see their broad range of functionality first hand. Learn how they are used throughout the entire software development process: application modeling, design, development, coding, and testing. | Half day |
Presentation
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CARM
Change and release management | IBM Rational software can help solve application deployment problems
that many companies face today. This hands-on session lets you step you through the process for
changing, building, and deploying an application.
| Half day |
Presentation
|
Community
Open community tools: An open stack development platform | Attend this discussion of "open community" development tools from IBM that are based on the same open standards as open source tools and yet provide greater flexibility and choice for application developers. In addition, the IBM open source strategy is discussed.
| Half day |
Presentation
|
Eclipse
Empowering the universal platform | Dive into some of the most important, feature rich projects that the Eclipse community is developing. From multi-language support to plug-in development, if you thought Eclipse was only great for Java development, come and see what it is capable of now.
| Half day |
Presentation
| |
Hacking 101
| This hands-on training is designed to teach the fundamentals of hacking -- how to find Web application vulnerabilities through a combination of manual and automated approaches, and what to do when a vulnerability has been identified.
| Half day |
Presentation
|
Lifecycle
Building SOA solutions and managing the service lifecycle
| Get an overview of the service management lifecycle, followed by a detailed discussion of the implementation and management of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution using IBM's world-class Rational and WebSphere tools. SOA. The briefing closes with a review of SOA best practices, resources, and calls to action.
| Half day |
Presentation
|
Requirements
Managing requirements throughout the software development lifecycle | This hands-on session provides an in-depth look at the process of defining and managing requirements throughout the Software Development Lifecycle, and the IBM Rational and WebSphere tools used throughout the process.
| Half day |
Presentation
|
Security
Achieving enterprise application security | Learn about end-to-end application security in a hands-on environment. See how basic security concepts are applied as a security stack is
built, adding additional layers of defense.
| Half day |
Presentation
|
Testing
Effective software testing: Tools and strategies for project success | Hands-on exercises show you how team members can collaborate in the
development lifecycle using Eclipse and Rational Software Delivery Platform
tools. The focus during this session is on end-to-end quality in the software development process. | Half day |
Presentation
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Resources
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