external presentations

March 7th (monday)

Mainly talked about the open source PBX version offered by Digium ; Mark Spencer the CEO of the company presented asterisk.

More marketing oriented presentation; thin on technical stuff

interesting pieces:

a) use of IAX instead of SIP for inter switch messaging
b) AGI scripting language simplified their development
c) 30 people company; only 3 developers but 12 open source outside enthusiasts

Useful links:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-asterisk
http://riceforth.com
http://www.asteriskdocs.org

March 3rd (Thu)

Presentation by IBM: multimodal toolkit for websphere studio.

Drag & drop eclipse based toolkit

Useful links
http://www.ibm.com/pvc/multimodal

Voice XML 1.2 spec (do google)

www.w3.org/2002/mmi

talked a lot about X+V concept.

Demo of opera electronic program guide...

At the end, CEO of heavy medical gave demo of his web site : ASP for patients; diagnostics, medicine recommendations

Time: Tuesday 1st March

Missed the start....
Mainly talks about SWT widget set, a project on java supported by IBM.

The speaker mostly stressed on power of native widget sets (written in C etc.) as opposed to swing(written in java): performance benefits etc.

Comparitive studies etc., integration of swing and swt.

2nd presentation:
WTP or Web tools;
These server tools allow developer to define, configure and publish web services
Have debugging tools including TCP/IP monitor, web service monitor etc.
WSDL editor , xdoclet support
Showed a demo on how to create a web project.
Funny thing; jvm kept on crashing during demo :)

Overall a nice free package integrated with eclipse. mostly done by IBM folks in Toronto & Raleigh.

Rel 1.0 of product expected in July, with eclipse 3.1