Frank Soltis, one of the fathers of the System 38 and the AS400 is going to retire.  This really is not news, but the e-zines are playing it up.

http://blogs.systeminetwork.com/isnblogs/maxedout/2008/11/frank_soltis_calls_it_quits.html

And our sister User Group in the Washington - Baltimore area remind you that if you are going on Dec 4th, you should confirm now !

"iSeries Web Development - State Of The Art Options" with Don Denoncourt
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"Practical Web Services" - Don Denoncourt provides an overview of web
services technologies and practical advice on tooling, strategies, and
deployment options. This presentation will also cover how to simplify
Web Services and SOA with a compelling alternative known as
Representational State Transfer. Unlike SOAP-based web services, it is
easy to implement a REST-based web service with RPG.

"Building Upscale Web Apps with RPG and AJAX" - Don Denoncourt overviews
techniques, strategies, and frameworks required to provide a rich user
interface for RPG-based business applications.

"Web-enabling RPG with Java Server Faces and Groovy and Grails" - In
this presentation Don Denoncourt will introduce you to Java Server Faces
(JSF) and then demonstrate how to write a Java Server Faces front-end to
the Acme Orders RPG application written by Scott Klement. Don will
finish the presentation by showing how to write a Groovy and Grails
front-end to the same Acme Orders application.

"RAD Web Development with Open Source Tools" - Are you undecided about
what technology to use for Web development? Discover the Grails
open-source framework that provides rapid application development for
Web applications. This presentation will show you how to generate a
maintenance application for legacy System i files in 5 minutes. You will
see how Grails is built on top of the best-of-breed Java frameworks.
This session will describe how to program Grails with the intuitive JVM
language called Groovy. You will also see how to use Eclipse, WDSc, or
RDi SOA as your IDE. Finally, the seminar also describes how to deploy
Grails to any Web application server (such as WebSphere or Tomcat) on
your favorite platform.

"Modernizing a System i Database: Your Key Asset" - This presentation
will explain why you need to modernize your database. It will overview
SQL's data definition language and then explain how to convert your
DDS-files to SQL-tables using both freely available and commercial
tools. Don will cover the DDS-to-DDL gotchas and then overview how to
move your business rules from RPG to your database.

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Don Denoncourt is the author of Java Application Strategies for the
AS/400 and iSeries and AS/400:Java at Work (MC Press). Don's third book,
Linux Web Hosting, was written as a college textbook for IBM's Partners
In Education. Don has authored over a hundred articles on Java, Linux,
and Web technologies for a variety of magazines including Midrange
Computing, iSeriesNews, and WebSpherePro. He is also the Java Subject
Matter Expert for Common. Don has taught over 1,000 hours of Java
seminars to AS/400 and iSeries programmers in various cities across the
country.


This course will be held on December 4, 2008 and will be presented at
the Holiday Inn in College Park on US1 and the Beltway. Class starts at
8:30 and ends at 5:00.


The course fee is $295 for non-user group members and $270 for user
group members. This fee offering is a special arrangement between
Washington Area Midrange Users Group and MidAtlantic Midrange. Members
of other AS/400 User groups may apply under the user group rate.



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