DRAFT: External Presentation

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Java asReligion,Subversion,Transformation

• The challenge of Java in
• large, diverse Development Organizations

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Agenda

• Themes
• Implementation Challenges
• RD Challenges

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Why does Schwab care about Java?

• Maintain Industry Leadership
• Worlds leading online broker and the nations
  fourth largest financial services company
• Stay on front of technology power curve
• In practice, Java
• Makes us more productive
• Reduces time to market
• Improves our ability to release new features more
  frequently

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Context Religion Evangelism

• Java is Better
• Implementable Object Oriented
• Java is Cheaper
• Write Once (or Twice), Run (Possibly) Anywhere
• Java is Faster
• 30 over C

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Context Subversion Agency of Change

• COBOL
• Bastion of Business Logic
• Java/CICS is a reality
• Tools exist to extract into Java classes
• C
• Not all applications require OS-grade tools
• Complexity limits diffusion
• Visual Basic
• Ubiquitous in Wintel
• VBS is great for realizing viruses
• Centralized Control
• Computing becoming more distributed in
  development and operation
• Demand of Time to Market facilitates Extreme
  Programming

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Context Transformation Quantum Leap

• Beans support and improve development
• provide convenience functions
• shortens time to functionality
• increases quality of code
• Enterprise Java Beans
• Drive technical services to infrastructure
• Java Message Beans
• Provide asynchronous communication

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Agenda

• Themes
• Implementation Challenges
• RD Challenges

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Areas of Challenge People

• High Demand for Top Talent
• Retention
• Training
• Building a Culture of Sharing

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Areas of Challenge Processes

• Interoperation with Legacy Functionality
• Migration to Heterogeneous Environment
• Transfer of Knowledge

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Areas of Challenge Platforms

• Performance Characteristics
• Version Disparities
• Continuously Maturing

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Recommendations

• Legacy Integration
• Heterogeneous Environments
• Training Requirements
• Internal Consulting Groups

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Agenda

• Themes
• Implementation Challenges
• RD Challenges

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Architecture Development Frameworks

• Guidelines for Design Patterns
• Gang of Four
• Others
• Jinis Leasing Model for Service Discovery
• A thing of Joy?
• Wheres Waldo?
• Quo vadis?

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Platforms Devices

• JVM optimization
• Each platform is different
• Work with vendors
• Java/CICS Realization
• How do COBOL to Java conversion tools integrate
  with Mainframe/Unix environments?
• Imbedded Java
• Blackberry
• WAP-enabled devices