For over a decade now, Oracle TopLink has delivered a premiere Java persistence solution. With the open sourcing of the complete TopLink product in the Eclipse Persistence Services ('EclipseLink') Project, a new era has begun. EclipseLink delivers a comprehensive set of persistence services addressing relational, XML and non-relational data stores through standard interfaces including JPA, JAXB, SDO and JCA. In this webinar, we will introduce the EclipseLink project and its various persistence services, with a focus on its object-relational JPA implementation including a demonstration of how it can be used within various Java containers.

Total running time 53:43 minutes

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

Building on the introductory "MyEclipse Blue Edition" webinar, this webinar will look at a more typical application development scenario to provide more insight into the MyEclipse Blue Edition IDE.

This demonstration shows the intuitive and simple activities to dynamically create and publish (deploy) a new WebLogic Event Server HelloWorld Application with the 2.1 version of the Event Server tools. After showing how to quickly generate the application artifacts required for the Event Processing Network Application, it walks through the editing experience the IDE provides. It then highlights how the Event Server can be easily managed directly from within the Eclipse environment and how the application is executed in the new lightweight Java container. Code is changed and also debugged during this presentation.

Total running time 07:54 minutes

This presentation will give developers an understanding of the performance of BIRT reports and the factors that affect the performance of reports. This presentation discusses the performance of the reports themselves, not the performance of the application container. Lastly, attendees will learn various tips to enhance the performance of reports.

Total running time will be approximately 30 minutes

While traditional operational reports provide a static view into data, BIRT gives end users the ability to drill down to detail, jump to bookmarks, navigate a table of contents, show tool tips and export data. This webinar will demonstrate how you can provide rich web interactivity to your report consumers and enable them to personalize, customize and interact with the information that is delivered on a standard BIRT report, giving the flexibility to look at information in new ways.

Total running time approximately 30 minutes

In this webinar, we will talk about the challenges that companies face when needing to interface reporting with their custom data stores. We will demonstrate how someone can create a custom data adapter, using the Open Data Access framework, to enable their reporting environment with direct access to a non-traditional data source. We will show a real world working example, leveraging the eBay Web Services API.

Total running time approximately 30 minutes

Designing and developing systems based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) involves different approaches and perspectives ranging from process definition to individual service construction and architectural composition. The Eclipse STP top-level project provides several editors across the SOA space, including BPMN, BPEL, SCA, JBI, JAX-WS and Policy editors. Each editor covers part of the specification of a complete SOA system and it is essential that there be a consistent approach to unify all these parts into a coherent whole.

This webinar will introduce you to the STP Intermediate Model (STP-IM) component, a recent addition to Eclipse STP. STP-IM is meant as a "bridge" between editors. Its elements have the role of conceptual transport between different development spaces with the purpose to capture as much common SOA design information from different editors as possible. In particular, it aims to bridge the workflow and process world (BPMN / BPEL) with the architecture specification world (SCA / JBI) and the service creation world (such as JAX-WS). After a brief overview of the STP-IM structure, the webinar will continue with a practical demonstration of how the STP-IM can be leveraged when developing SOA elements with several STP editors.

9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT - Convert to other time zones

Total running time will be approximately 1 hour

Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.

The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project is a new top-level project at eclipse.org. Originally proposed by Sybase in February 2005, DTP has attracted strong community support and is currently managed by a committee comprised of Sybase, IBM, and Actuate. It is an open-source initiative that is designed to provide solutions in the data framework and tooling domains.

Some examples of what the DTP plug-in allows you to do from within Eclipse include:

• Connect to a database (or multiple databases)
• View a database object tree (tables, views, stored procedures, and so on)
• Generate data definition language (DDL) from database objects
• Execute DDL commands against a database
• Execute SQL queries against a database
• View query results in table format

Join the experts from Sybase iAnywhere as they review the Eclipse Data Tools Platform and how you can use it when developing database application with SQL Anywhere. This webcast will show you how to install the Data Tools Platform Eclipse plug-in, how to use some of its features with a SQL Anywhere 10 database, and where you can get more help and information to make your development projects a success.

Total running time 52:09 minutes

Ian will describe the strength of the Eclipse market and the integration concept - and why the Eclipse concept is so succesful.

Volker will describe how Innovations uses the Eclipse concept for integrating Business Rules Management (BRM).

Business Rules Management allows organizations to manage their business decisions in a way that domain experts are able to control. Close collaboration of business and IT in defining, testing and managing the business rules delivers an increase in efficiency and decrease in terms of time-to-market.

The Visual Rules Eclipse plug-in allows the management of business rules with a unique graphical modeling approach. The Eclipse plug-in concept enables users and service companies to easily integrate Visual Rules into their development environment and into RCP-based solutions. Visual Rules is as well easy to use for business as it is powerful for IT.

Visual Rules 4.0 is launched on April 15, 2008. Version 4 provides new rule management concepts and major new features and functions - supporting advanced collaboration of business and IT. Participants of the webcast will get to see the news in a live demo of the product.

Total running time 54:18 minutes