Meeting....: Silicon Valley Java Users Group (SVJUG)

Time.......: April 14,2004 (second Wednesday of each month)

Cost.......: Always FREE to all!

Topic......: Building Cutting Edge Applications with
Business Rules Technology

Speaker....: Matt Shumpert, Technical manager,
ILOG, Inc(http://www.ilog.com)

Description:

Business applications require tremendous flexibility
in order to adapt to changing customer demands, regulatory
requirements, company policies and competition.
Business rules technology enables a clear separation
between true business policy and the rest of the
application code, allowing the business policy to change
independently and providing the ability for end business
users to directly modify and maintain the business rules
while providing greater control, flexibility and
functionality to IT. Business Rules are an increasingly
important means for managing highly variable business
logic in Java technology-based applications, and in Java
technology-based integration layers in the enterprise.

Object oriented languages such as Java provide an ideal
foundation for rule-based development, and Java
technology-based applications built around inference
engines enable the rapid, business-driven evolution of
software behavior required in many rapidly changing
business environments. In general, rule-based architectures
permit information-driven enterprises to decouple the
way they engage their customers from static software
implementations, allowing more rapid product evolution,
improved customer service delivery, and increased
day-to-day flexibility in operations.

The presentation will discuss:
* Evolution of business rules technology
(from rule engines to business rules management)
* How to integrate business rules technology into
Java applications and legacy systems, including
applications running on the J2EE platform
* How to identify structural and fixed versus
non-structural and changeable logic elements
in your design
* How more flexible applications can be developed
using business rules with real-world examples and
demos

Speaker Bio:

Matt Shumpert is a technical account manager at ILOG
where he helps independent software vendors, system
integrators and end-users across multiple industries as a
consultant on business rule management implementations.
He guides customers in applying ILOG advanced
technologies to solve compliance and other complex
enterprise application challenges, as well as works
with ILOG research and development to drive the
evolution of the business rules products. Matt
attended the University of Virginia and graduated
with a degree in Computer Science.


Agenda.....:
18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle with Food
Pizza & Soda courtesy of ILOG, Inc( www.ilog.com)

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Matt Schumpert

Location...: Netscape Communications, Inc.
Planet Mo'z Dining Room
468 Ellis Street (Bldg. 22)
Mountain View, CA

Map available at http://svjug.org/

After turning onto Ellis from Middlefield, you will
pass 2 big blue glass buildings on the right. Turn
left into the 3 big brown stone buildings just after
the blue buildings. The 3rd brown building at the
end is Building 22. The Planet M'oz Conference room
is at the south West end of the building.

Sponsors...: Netscape provides our meeting room.
http://www.netscape.com/

Croftsoft provides our domain hosting.
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Our thanks to these great sponsors!