FASUG Application Development Day 2004

Track C Session 1

Application Development Strategy and Roadmap
George Farr


Application Development Strategy and Roadmap
As you may know, if you have PDM, then you also have unlimited licenses of WebSphere Development Studio Client, the Windows-based IDE for RPG/COBOL, Java, Web, Web Services and XML development. One IDE for all your programming needs. Come to this session and understand what this IDE is and how it can help you. You will also see the new iSeries Application Developers roadmap which IBM recently announced, to help you chart a modernization.

George Farr   has a specialized honors degree in computer science from York University in Toronto. He joined the IBM Toronto Laboratory in May 1985 and worked with the RPG development team for seven years where he developed many functions in the compiler. After spending a year with the AS/400 languages architecture and planning team, he joined the visual development organization as the Compiler development team leader for the first release of VARPG. Later on he became the Visual RPG development manager. Currently he is the Technical manager for all of the RPG compilers on the AS/400, NT, and windows 95/98/2000. In addition, he is the technical development manager for a new generation of tooling based on the eclipse technology. He is a frequent award-winning speaker at COMMON, other conferences and user groups worldwide. He has published numerous articles on the subject of AS/400 languages and environments. He authored many books including 'ILE- A First Look', 'RPG IV By example' and most recently he co-authored, with Phil Coulthard the books: 'Java for RPG programmers', and 'Java for COBOL Programmers On OS/390 and OS/400'.


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