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The Global WebSphere Community Newsletter -- June 2009
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Dear WebSpherian,

Thank you for subscribing to the Global WebSphere Community Newsletter - distributed on a monthly basis and containing the latest information on Global WebSphere Community announcements and WebSphere software-related topics of interest.

Asia Pacific

North America
    NJ- Metro WebSphere User Group: Metro NJ WUG has a new leader!
    Now that a new User group leader has been identified, we are plannning to actively conduct meetings and share user experiences and thoughts. A virtual meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, June 30th at 4:00 PM ET. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss plans for our next meeting and introduce the new UG leader, Barry Cartmill.

    Charlotte WebSphere User Group (CWUG), Charlotte NC
    The Charlotte, North Carolina WUG met recently in June. WUG Leader Kishor Phadnis organized three presentations for the meeting: WebSphere Virtual Enterprise 6.1 Technical Overview by Brian Martin; Deployment of Multi-Coregroup and Large Topology Environments by Jhared Smith; and finally Best practices in building and monitoring enterprise environments by Shekar Maramraju. Members had interesting discussions on WAS XD 6.1 and Large Topology issues after the presentations.
    Brian Martin's presentation can be downloaded here: https://www.websphere.org/download Slides?package=879

In our continued effort to serve the GWC, new features have been added to websphere.org. Here's a list of the new features:


WUG Profile Page

Keep tabs on your local WebSphere User Group
Most recent meetings, upcoming or previous, are now in view on individual WebSphere User Group profile pages. In the past, WUG profile pages only displayed upcoming meetings. Now you can see at a glance what WebSphere Users in your area are learning about!
Browse WUG profile pages.

See your WUG in Action!
WUG Leaders can now add photos to the WUG Profile pages on WebSphere.org. Each WUG can post up to 10 photos. Putting a face with the names of your fellow Users will speed up networking and getting to know your fellow Group members.
Click here for an example




Presentation Sharing Page
In addition to ratings, you are now able to add comments to presentations shared by WUG Leaders on the WebSphere.org. This enables discussion, knowledge-sharing, and expertise building among Global WebSphere Community members.
Download and comment on presentations now.




Registration Process
Upon joining the GWC, all new members are now presented with the list of local WUGs in their area that they can register to join in one click. Virtual user groups, organized by topics are also listed and members can also join as easily.
If you are not a member of the GWC yet, join now!

Sights and Sounds of IBM's Craig Hayman at JavaOne
On June 4th, Craig Hayman, VP IBM WebSphere, did the evening keynote at JavaOne. Craig's material, organized with Developers in mind, covers IBM's contribution/consumption of Open Source Projects including Harmony, Cloud Computing using the Cloudburst Appliance and Extreme Transaction Processing with particular details on WebSphere eXtreme Scale and a glimpse at the future of elastic applications. Craig goes into how IBM is making access to these technologies by Developers much simpler. Before the session, Craig was interviewed on JavaOne Radio by Chris Melissinos, Chief Evangelist and Chief Gaming Officer at Sun Microsystems. The interview provides Craig with an informal venue for some interesting insights on his presentation topics. If you want to understand where IBM WebSphere is going with Open Source, Cloud Computing and Extreme Transaction Processing, listen to Craig's interview and then watch his presentation. It will be time well spent.
  • Listen to Java Radio interview with Craig Hayman, VP IBM WebSphere and JavaOne's Chris Mellisinos
  • See Craig Hayman, VP IBM WebSphere, Evening Keynote at JavaOne, 4 June 2009



Drive Agility & Cost Optimization: SOA & BPM Announcements from IBM
June 29, 2009

Our world has changed, becoming more instrumented, interconnected, and literally more intelligent. These changes have profoundly affected the way that we work; how we use, share and create information. Yet, rigid processes and structures still hold us back. To truly work smarter organizations need to transform their collaborative infrastructure and critical processes to unleash the expertise, enterprise, and creativity of their people. Today, IBM is helping organizations work smarter - helping them to develop dynamic business processes and models that enable smarter collaboration, supported by a robust, scalable, and flexible foundation built on Smart SOA.




You're working hard; you have to work smarter
Find out how at Impact Comes to You
If you are looking for ways to contain costs, improve business processes and keep up with rapid market changes, look into IBM's new Smart Work for a smarter planet. Register to attend Impact Comes to You in a city near you. You'll gain practical knowledge about how to create dynamic business processes and models, using smarter collaboration, all on an SOA foundation. IBM executives, customers, and Business Partners describe how companies have built more agile and efficient organizations by working smarter. Register for an event near you.




"Free" Open Source Portals: Myth, Hype, or Reality?
Join Forrester Research analyst Matt Brown and Lotus GM Bob Picciano for a discussion on the importance of thinking beyond license fees when evaluating a portal solution and why IBM customers are choosing WebSphere Portal over open source portal alternatives. Registration for this Webinar with live Q&A on Tuesday, July 7 at 10 am EDT is now available.




Webcast Replay: SOA, Where to Go (and Where Not to Go) From Here
Date/ Time: May 21, 2009, 2:00 pm Eastern
Presenters: Erik Van Ommeren and Andy Harmon


Diagnostic Tools Suite for IBM Support Assistant Continues to Grow
The IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health Center is the newest addition to the expanding list of Java troubleshooting tools on IBM Support Assistant. The Health Center is a lightweight tool that monitors IBM Virtual Machines for Java with minimal performance overhead. The Health Center
  • analyzes garbage collection with graphs and tuning recommendations
  • shows application activity with low-overhead method profiles and call stacks for frequently used methods
  • visualizes application classloading activity
  • highlights contended locks
  • provides details of the Java configuration and identifies potential problems.
You can learn more about the Health Center at these resources: You'll also want to check out the latest update to the Memory Dump Diagnostic for Java (MDD4J) beta V3.0. It includes several major user interface and analysis engine enhancements. See the Tools Add-on List for IBM Support Assistant for more information about MDD4J and for information on how to install and run tools on the IBM Support Assistant.




WebSphere Smart SOA Application Foundation Video
Business applications are central to your business - from mission critical and key company-wide apps that are all-important to the ongoing success of your organization, to targeted departmental level apps that help solve some of your most immediate and tactical issues. A Smart SOA Application Foundation from IBM WebSphere provides the innovation and performance that allows you to build, deploy and manage robust, agile and re-usable SOA applications and services of all types. This foundation helps you deliver on business objectives while reducing application infrastructure costs across mainframe and distributed environments.

This video will introduce the key capabilities of the Smart SOA Application Foundation and provide examples of how IBM was able to help JK Enterprises adjust their business model and work smarter to succeed in today's economy.



Our popular IBM WebSphere Portal Conference has a new name -- IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009. This renaming reflects a broader conference agenda that spans our IBM software portfolio. Topics include integration across mashups, Lotus Web Content Management, collaboration, Filenet, Cognos, security and Business Process Management (BPM). Join us at the following locations worldwide this year:
  • August 5-7 in Macau, China
  • October 12-15 in San Diego, California
  • October 26-28 in Salzburg, Austria
  • November 2-4 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (note: this event was originally scheduled for August 2009)


 


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