During November 1999, PartnerWorld for Developers and NCSD hosted a successful series of Java Briefing Days at five locations worldwide. Nearly 1200 developers attended, a 600% increase from the previous sessions held just six months earlier. Feedback from those who attended was resoundingly positive.

• "Brilliant! Keep up the good work" - Gavin Campbell, Demon

• "Excellent briefing and agenda, and professionally organized. Not sure you can do anything to improve it" - John Maden, J. D. Edwards

• "Inspiring confidence that we are deploying the right technologies and solutions to our clients." - Mark Sheldon, Dialog Corporation

• "Reinforces IBM's commitment to its partners, and their ability to compete" - Ian Wilson, Springstone Software

• "Overall very interesting and useful. Provides helpful acceleration in getting started with WebSphere" - D. Gibbs, Datastream ICV Ltd

• "XML was not on my agenda - it could be now. I always pick up something useful at these events" - D. Eglington, Eglington Software Ltd

Seminar presentations (.pdf format)

Enterprise Component Models from COM Enterprise JavaBeans This presentation describes and compares three popular component models in use today: COM, CORBA and EJBs. Recommendations are made as to when each approach is most applicable to solve your particular problem. (1750k)

Escaping Entropy Death! Where XML Fits and Why In this presentation, Simon Phipps describes the rationale for a standards-based approach to computing. He then provides a mini-tutorial on XML and describes why XML is important to the future of computing. (6000k)

The IBM WebSphere Family This presentation describes the IBM WebSphere product and describes technologies important to the delivery of Web based content such as Servlets, Java Server Pages and Enterprise Java Beans. (4100k)

Java Platform Implementations from IBM Overview This presentation contains an overview and status of the IBM developed Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). Platforms include Win32, OS/2, AIX, OS/400, OS/390 and Linux. (724k)

IBM's High Performance Implementation of Java 2 Technology This presentation describes many of the techniques used by the IBM JVM development team used to create some of the best performing JVMs in the industry. (2450k)

XML: Crossing the Chasm Case studys in which the IBM "jStart" team has helped customers deploy XML based solutions. (3800k)