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Link to Developers Day Detailed Agendas =>
Developer's day, Friday, May
14, 1999, will consist of seven parallel streams. Presentations
will discuss content of specific interest to Web software developers,
including new software, protocols, and hardware, and will be
as timely as possible -- the content will represent the state
of the art.
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D1 |
Web-based Distributed computing |
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(formerly: Distributed computing, CORBA/COM, and HTTP-NG) |
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D2 |
XML, DOM and Related Technologies |
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D3 |
Databases, Naming, Indexing, and Searching |
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D4 |
Scalable Graphics |
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D5 |
Style Sheets and Formatting |
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D6 |
Accessibility: Software and Design |
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D7 |
Web Scripting Language Forum |
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D8 |
Open Source Software |
Technical Streams:
- D1 Web-based
Distributed Computing
[Ian Brackenbury, IBM]
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- This track presents current experience
with distributed computing technologies applied to applications
running over the world wide web.
Technologies such as Java grew up with the Web; others like CORBA
and Microsoft's COM+ have a different heritage but are being
used to create applications serving the Web. There will be presentations
that describe experience in using Java with CORBA and with COM+
as well as other emerging distributed object technologies. The
emphasis is on objects communicating across the web using remote
method-call/procedure-call or messaging. Preference will be given
to proposals that describe experience with live customer applications.
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- Leading developments in XML, DOM,
and other core technologies and interfaces (XSL, XLink, Schemas,
SAX, etc.) XML and related standards -- most importantly the
DOM API, but also including XLink/XPointer, XML Schemas, and
XSL -- constitute the future syntactic infrastructure of the
Web. This track presents up-to-the-minute developments in Web-related
technologies based on these standards.
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- D3 Databases,
Naming, Indexing, and Searching
[Stu Weibel and Eric Miller, OCLC]
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- The W3C's Resource Description
Framework plays an important role in enabling a whole gamut of
new metadata applications including sitemaps, stream channel
definitions, search engine data collection (web crawling), digital
library collections, and distributed authoring.
This
track is designed to provide an overview of this initiative and
present new and exciting metadata applications based on this
initiative. Additionally, this track will provide the opportunity
for dialog with several individuals who participated in the design
of this initiative as well as a discussion of future plans and
goals.
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- 'Scalable Graphics' is one of those obvious missing pieces
of the Web which has now started to happen. With the release
of the WebCGM profile as a W3C Recommendation, and the initial
drafts of the SVG namespace for XML, the prospects for Open,
vendor-neutral scalable graphics are looking up.
This session will examine the implementation issues arising from
these specifications, as previously high-end features such as
antialiasing, true transparency, image filtering and clipping,
and color management move into the mainstream and meet standard
Web technologies such as XML, XLink, CSS and XSL to produce the
high quality hypergraphics of tomorrow's Web.
One part of this track will be run jointly with the Style Sheets
and Formatting track, to cover style sheets applied to vector
graphics.
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- D5 Style
Sheets and Formatting
[Håkon Lie,
W3C]
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- This track will present the latest
developments in style sheets for HTML and XML documents. Leading
implementors will present how CSS is supported in their products
today, and how they expect to see style sheets functionality
extend in the future. The scope of this session includes the
relationship between formatting in CSS and XSL, and there will
also be a session on test suites and how they can help developers
ensure interoperable style sheets implementatons.
One part of this track will be run jointly with the Graphics
track, to cover style sheets applied to vector graphics.
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- Barrier Free design is a topic every developer will be compelled
to attend to, if not because of the market incentives or the
design advantages, then for legal reasons.
However, what constitutes barrier free access for emerging technologies
or evolving standards is not well defined. Although the general
principles of barrier free design are well documented, there
is no systematic prescriptive process in place for designing
accessible leading edge software. By necessity this is a ongoing
participatory process.
This day long session will grapple with accessible design of
emerging web-based standards and software. Developers are encouraged
to present unsolved or partially solved access challenges for
input or discussion during the session. Presenters are invited
to discuss techniques that result in barrier free web-based products
and case studies of successful or unsuccessful development strategies
or business practices that are directed at barrier free design.
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- D7 Web
Scripting Language Forum (Morning)
[Cameron Laird,
Network Engineered Solutions]
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- - How do language issues impact development of Web applications,
both on the client and the server? How should language technologies
be chosen for Web work? Have you pulled back a JavaScript code
base from client-side to server-side? Does your language process
international character sets transparently?
Presentations in this session will address these and related
questions on the basis of development experiences and prospects,
with balanced attention to the costs and liabilities of the technologies
they employed.
The range of topics pertinent to this Forum is wide; other possibilities
include:
- - How do you alter/extend Web applications after deployment?
- How central a role does/should data storage play in Web applications?
- Should an organization use multiple (computer) languages in
constructing Web applications?
- How does uses of open-source languages compare to proprietary
ones?
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- D8 Open
Source Software (Afternoon)
[Brian Behlendorf, O'Reilly and
Associates/The Apache Group
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- From the hype and press attention
one might think that Open Source software will cure cancer and
bring world peace. Well, not anytime soon; but not only has the
open-source approach to development helped create a rich set
of world-class applications for the Web, it has also helped ensure
the interoperability of Web software through adherence to common,
open protocols. Thus it's important to consider open-source approaches
to software development for any type of Web application. However,
the OSS approach is not without its limitations or pitfalls,
both for technological and for organizational reasons.
This day-long session will dive into the technical and operational
aspects of an Open Source approach to software development for
the Web. Project developers will give overviews and details of
various projects, both on the Web client and Web server side;
as well as discuss strategies for OSS development that have worked,
or not worked, for their development teams.
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Developers' Day inquiries and suggestions should be sent to Ian Graham, Chair.
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