KEYNOTE VIDEOS
In this plenary talk delivered at the Eclipse India Summit 2009, Ramkumar Kothandaram addressed the myriad new opportunities that have opened up in this new world of choice. A timely keynote, Ramkumar set the tone for the summit through this plenary especially in these times of change.
Ramkumar has been with Microsoft for around 10 years and currently he is managing the Microsoft Technology Center at Bangalore where he and his team of architects help customers envision, architect and build solutions on top of Microsoft platform. Over the past 10 years at Microsoft, he has played multiple roles – including architecture evangelism, architecture strategy, product development teams focusing on working with large ISV vendors etc., He is passionate about enterprise computing and his areas of interests include building large scale scalable applications, database platform, master data management and Service oriented architecture.
In this plenary talk, Dhiraj Bhandari of Oracle demonstrates FastSwap, an Eclipse Plug-in for faster iterative development. While the traditional JEE development cycle comprises of the "Edit", "Build", "Deploy" and "Test" phases, modern IDE's remove the "Build" step through conditional compilation. FastSwap's goal is to simplify this further by removing the "Deploy" phase of the JEE development cycle.
Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.5 is tightly integrated with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) to provide seamless development and deployment for complex web, Java EE and SOA applications. In this plenary delivered at Eclipse India Summit 2009, Bharat Kasturirangan highlights some of the key areas of function in RAD v7.5 that enhance developer productivity, including tools for Java EE 5, annotations, and the built-in WebSphere Test Environment that allows applications to be quickly deployed and tested locally.