The document discusses integrating the Alpha Five application server with Microsoft IIS 7 (Internet Information Services) to leverage the strengths of both platforms. It describes four main goals: 1) tightly integrating Alpha Five with the IIS 7 pipeline for security, session state, and management; 2) enabling easy deployment of Alpha Five applications on IIS 7 using tools like Web Deploy; 3) allowing for high scalability solutions through use of IIS 7 features like session state providers and security integration; and 4) minimizing the impact on existing Alpha Five applications through a common object model and XML configuration. The integration is said to fully bring Alpha Five into the mainstream Microsoft web development stack.
onePK The Swiss Army Knife for Network ProgrammingCisco DevNet
This document discusses network programmability and the Cisco onePK architecture. It introduces onePK as providing a common way to program Cisco network operating systems like IOS, NXOS, and IOS XR using languages like Python from any location. It details the onePK architecture, security measures, hosting options, and available services like configuration, events, routing, and policy.
Leveraging the Cloud for Continuous Delivery while Protecting your IPPerforce
Globally distributed product teams face unique challenges in pursuing Continuous Delivery. Remote team members need latest changes within an expected response time from their peers, development require continuous software integration via build & test automation, and network latency and bandwidth can become critical bottlenecks for distributed teams. Learn how VMware vCloud Hybrid Service with Perforce can serve your remote teams and/or scale your build & test environment
Fundamental Spring Boot: Keep it Simple, Get it Right, Be Productive and Have...VMware Tanzu
The document summarizes key concepts for working with Spring Boot fundamentals including:
- Application properties can be managed through YAML files with different profiles for environments and validated through POJOs
- Dependency injection preferably uses constructor injection and Lombok can generate code
- Troubleshooting tips include turning on debug logs and leveraging actuator endpoints
- Being productive involves using Lombok, DevTools, Boot Dashboard, and the H2 console.
The document discusses various open source tools that can be used to build production-ready Kubernetes clusters, including tools for observability, automation, continuous integration, ingress, security, backup/restore, and policy enforcement. It analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of popular options for logs/metrics collection, GitOps, service meshes, ingress controllers, identity management, and backups. Key criteria for tool selection are that they are open source, tested/proven in projects, and have an active community.
The presentation discusses OpenDaylight's efforts to improve open-source content development. It outlines moving from an initial wiki-based documentation system to a more professional setup using AsciiDoc, Maven tooling, and a Git repository based on lessons from OpenStack. Challenges include catching up documentation to the codebase and coordinating documentation as a team effort across the open-source community with limited resources. The goal is to establish consistent, consolidated documentation with better searchability.
Resilient and Adaptable Systems with Cloud Native APIsVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Resilient and Adaptable Systems with Cloud Native APIs
Speakers: Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware; Spencer Gibb, Spring Cloud Core Lead at VMware
Source Code Control for Microsoft Access DevelopersPhilipp Stiefel
A presentation about the benefits of source code control for Microsoft Access developers. Covers Add-Ins for Access to deal with the issues of managing Access projects in version control.
onePK The Swiss Army Knife for Network ProgrammingCisco DevNet
This document discusses network programmability and the Cisco onePK architecture. It introduces onePK as providing a common way to program Cisco network operating systems like IOS, NXOS, and IOS XR using languages like Python from any location. It details the onePK architecture, security measures, hosting options, and available services like configuration, events, routing, and policy.
Leveraging the Cloud for Continuous Delivery while Protecting your IPPerforce
Globally distributed product teams face unique challenges in pursuing Continuous Delivery. Remote team members need latest changes within an expected response time from their peers, development require continuous software integration via build & test automation, and network latency and bandwidth can become critical bottlenecks for distributed teams. Learn how VMware vCloud Hybrid Service with Perforce can serve your remote teams and/or scale your build & test environment
Fundamental Spring Boot: Keep it Simple, Get it Right, Be Productive and Have...VMware Tanzu
The document summarizes key concepts for working with Spring Boot fundamentals including:
- Application properties can be managed through YAML files with different profiles for environments and validated through POJOs
- Dependency injection preferably uses constructor injection and Lombok can generate code
- Troubleshooting tips include turning on debug logs and leveraging actuator endpoints
- Being productive involves using Lombok, DevTools, Boot Dashboard, and the H2 console.
The document discusses various open source tools that can be used to build production-ready Kubernetes clusters, including tools for observability, automation, continuous integration, ingress, security, backup/restore, and policy enforcement. It analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of popular options for logs/metrics collection, GitOps, service meshes, ingress controllers, identity management, and backups. Key criteria for tool selection are that they are open source, tested/proven in projects, and have an active community.
The presentation discusses OpenDaylight's efforts to improve open-source content development. It outlines moving from an initial wiki-based documentation system to a more professional setup using AsciiDoc, Maven tooling, and a Git repository based on lessons from OpenStack. Challenges include catching up documentation to the codebase and coordinating documentation as a team effort across the open-source community with limited resources. The goal is to establish consistent, consolidated documentation with better searchability.
Resilient and Adaptable Systems with Cloud Native APIsVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Resilient and Adaptable Systems with Cloud Native APIs
Speakers: Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware; Spencer Gibb, Spring Cloud Core Lead at VMware
Source Code Control for Microsoft Access DevelopersPhilipp Stiefel
A presentation about the benefits of source code control for Microsoft Access developers. Covers Add-Ins for Access to deal with the issues of managing Access projects in version control.
Creating Polyglot Communication Between Kubernetes Clusters and Legacy System...VMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Creating Polyglot Communication Between Kubernetes Clusters and Legacy Systems with an Event Mesh
Speakers: Michael Hilmen, Principal Architect at Solace; Robbie Jerrom, Principal SE - Office of the CTO at VMware
Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud and KubernetesVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud and Kubernetes
Speaker: Ryan Baxter, Staff Software Engineer at VMware
This document summarizes a presentation about Spring and Pivotal Application Service (PAS). It discusses why developers use Spring and PAS, the market-leading Spring support in PAS, and the ecosystem of services available for Spring applications on PAS. It also provides an agenda that covers these topics and next steps.
- WSO2 is a global open source software company founded in 2005 that provides a platform-as-a-service for private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments.
- All of WSO2's products are 100% open source and released under the Apache License Version 2.0.
- WSO2 has driven innovation by launching the first open source API management solution in 2012, WSO2 App Factory in 2013, and the Enterprise Store and first open source mobile solution in 2013.
The Path Towards Spring Boot Native ApplicationsVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2020
The Path Towards Spring Boot Native Applications
Sébastien Deleuze, Spring Framework Committer at VMware
Andy Clement, Director at VMware
How VMware IT Modernized My VMware to Deliver an Exceptional Customer ExperienceVMware Tanzu
The document summarizes how VMware modernized its Customer Connect portal to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Key points:
- Customer Connect is a self-service portal and mobile app used by millions of VMware customers monthly for support, licensing, downloads and more.
- The portal was modernized using a microservices architecture based on Spring Cloud to improve performance, availability, and developer productivity. Availability increased to 99.95% and response times improved by 40%.
- Future plans include leveraging Tanzu to further boost developer velocity, implement zero-trust security, and provide observability across hybrid/multi-cloud environments for continuous delivery. A new AI assistant will also personalize the customer experience.
In today’s cloud native world, Docker Images are the lingua franca for platform portability. Unfortunately, there’s no clear direction for developers to turn their Spring applications into those Docker Images. The most likely tool for Docker Image creation, Dockerfile, has serious Day 2 limitations that make it a poor choice for many situations. This session will explore how to use the Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF) project and its integrations into the Spring ecosystem. It will cover the use of Spring Boot’s Maven and Gradle plugins, the pack CLI, the kpack Kubernetes service, and more.
MicroserviceArchitecture in detail over Monolith.PLovababu
This document discusses microservices architecture as an alternative to monolithic architecture. It defines microservices as independently deployable services that communicate through lightweight mechanisms like HTTP APIs. The document outlines benefits of microservices like independent scalability, easier upgrades, and improved developer productivity. It also discusses prerequisites for microservices like rapid provisioning, monitoring, and continuous deployment. Examples of microservices frameworks and a demo application using Spring Boot are provided.
WSO2Con ASIA 2016: Case Study: Identity in the WSO2 EcosystemWSO2
The WSO2 ecosystem consists of several types of identities with different characteristics. Among them are customer identities, open-source community identities and the employee identities. The objective of this project was to design and implement a secure, state of the art identity and access management (IAM) system using WSO2 technology.
There are many systems in WSO2 that require authentication, authorization and provisioning. Users have to maintain many complex passwords; administrators have to manage a large number of authorizations and provisioning. Another problem with current architecture is that it is tightly bound to email addresses. If the user changes the email address, his identity will be lost.
This session will discuss how we built a state of the art identity and access management program that addresses the above problems using WSO2 Identity Server.
Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS), customer-owned, or Microsoft partner services.
This document discusses conducting user research for an API management product. It outlines the research process of empathizing with users through interviews and personas, defining problems by synthesizing findings, ideating solutions through design studios, and prototyping and testing solutions. The research uncovered that API consumers want easy discovery and secure access to APIs without involving operations. It also found that API managers want observability into API usage. Outcomes of the research included API discovery and documentation pages and secure access pages. The value of user research is building empathy, validating assumptions, and providing structured feedback.
This document discusses operating containers with AWS Copilot. It begins with introductions to containers and Docker. It then discusses the AWS container landscape including Amazon ECS, ECR, and Fargate. AWS Copilot is introduced as a toolkit for containerized applications on AWS that helps with building, releasing, and operating containers. Copilot addresses common challenges like deployment, testing, releasing, and cleanup. It provides features like deployment with App Runner, scheduled jobs, release pipelines, environment variables and more. The document encourages focusing on building products rather than infrastructure and using AWS services like ECS, Fargate and Copilot to streamline container deployment.
CI - A Refactor Story - Boston DevOps Meetup March 2015Kevin Gilpin
I brief slide sequence about refactoring a monolithic Jenkins CI system into independent components: Foundation image, Build, Verify, Secrets, SSH, Workflow, Linked dependencies, Artifact “push” (deployment), Audit, and Notifications.
Spring is an open source integration framework for Java applications. It began in 2002 as an alternative to EJB and has since expanded into a full application development framework. It provides core features like inversion of control (IoC) and dependency injection (DI) and supports various web frameworks, data access technologies, messaging, and cloud technologies. The Spring community has grown significantly in recent years, with over 15 million projects generated from start.spring.io in 2019 alone.
Eclipse microprofile config and OSGi config admin - E Jiangmfrancis
OSGi Community Event 2017 Presentation by Emily Jiang [IBM]
Eclipse MicroProfile Config defines a Java programming model for microservices. It offers the capability of configuring microservices without repacking the microservices; microservices reacting differently based on the deployment environment; dynamic configuration feeding into the microservices without restarting the microservices. OSGi Config Admin exists for many years and offers an efficient configuration model to OSGi applications. MicroPorfile Config can work well in OSGi applications. It doesn't contradict but instead compliments Config Admin. Come to this session to find out the common and different features between the two technologies, as well as the possibility of integrating Eclipse MicroProfile Config to OSGi applications.
- Alfresco is the largest open source content management company in the world, founded in 2005 with offices in London and Atlanta. It has over 3 million community downloads and 250+ global channel partners.
- The Alfresco platform provides document management, records management, web content services, and enterprise collaboration across devices. It uses a open source model with RESTful APIs and open standards.
- Alfresco offers both on-premise subscription licenses for deployment on a company's own infrastructure as well as software-as-a-service subscriptions for easier installation and use. Training and certification are also available.
Packaging and Distributing Applications for KubernetesVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Packaging and Distributing Applications for Kubernetes
Speakers: Ian Zink, Staff Software Engineer at VMware; Nitasha Verma, Solutions Engineer at VMware
IBM WebSphere Application Server Update - Technical University (March 2015)Ian Robinson
IBM WebSphere Application Server Update - presented to the WebSphere Technical University (March 2015) by Ian Robinson, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect.
An organization's need to serve up web-based applications has changed drastically over the past 16 years and are continuing to change. No other application server in the industry today provides the range of capabilities found in IBM WebSphere Application Server - from rapidly developed and deployed lightweight applications to highly available, highly scaled, continuously available enterprise applications. This session describes the revolution that has occurred to the fastest and most flexible AppServer to run in every cloud, and the direction in which it is going.
Partying with PHP on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7goodfriday
This document discusses different ways of configuring PHP on IIS7, including loading PHP as an extension, using FastCGI, and running PHP via CGI. It compares the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It also provides information on resources for configuring and running popular PHP applications on Windows servers using IIS7.
Creating Polyglot Communication Between Kubernetes Clusters and Legacy System...VMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Creating Polyglot Communication Between Kubernetes Clusters and Legacy Systems with an Event Mesh
Speakers: Michael Hilmen, Principal Architect at Solace; Robbie Jerrom, Principal SE - Office of the CTO at VMware
Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud and KubernetesVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Cloud and Kubernetes
Speaker: Ryan Baxter, Staff Software Engineer at VMware
This document summarizes a presentation about Spring and Pivotal Application Service (PAS). It discusses why developers use Spring and PAS, the market-leading Spring support in PAS, and the ecosystem of services available for Spring applications on PAS. It also provides an agenda that covers these topics and next steps.
- WSO2 is a global open source software company founded in 2005 that provides a platform-as-a-service for private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments.
- All of WSO2's products are 100% open source and released under the Apache License Version 2.0.
- WSO2 has driven innovation by launching the first open source API management solution in 2012, WSO2 App Factory in 2013, and the Enterprise Store and first open source mobile solution in 2013.
The Path Towards Spring Boot Native ApplicationsVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2020
The Path Towards Spring Boot Native Applications
Sébastien Deleuze, Spring Framework Committer at VMware
Andy Clement, Director at VMware
How VMware IT Modernized My VMware to Deliver an Exceptional Customer ExperienceVMware Tanzu
The document summarizes how VMware modernized its Customer Connect portal to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Key points:
- Customer Connect is a self-service portal and mobile app used by millions of VMware customers monthly for support, licensing, downloads and more.
- The portal was modernized using a microservices architecture based on Spring Cloud to improve performance, availability, and developer productivity. Availability increased to 99.95% and response times improved by 40%.
- Future plans include leveraging Tanzu to further boost developer velocity, implement zero-trust security, and provide observability across hybrid/multi-cloud environments for continuous delivery. A new AI assistant will also personalize the customer experience.
In today’s cloud native world, Docker Images are the lingua franca for platform portability. Unfortunately, there’s no clear direction for developers to turn their Spring applications into those Docker Images. The most likely tool for Docker Image creation, Dockerfile, has serious Day 2 limitations that make it a poor choice for many situations. This session will explore how to use the Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNCF) project and its integrations into the Spring ecosystem. It will cover the use of Spring Boot’s Maven and Gradle plugins, the pack CLI, the kpack Kubernetes service, and more.
MicroserviceArchitecture in detail over Monolith.PLovababu
This document discusses microservices architecture as an alternative to monolithic architecture. It defines microservices as independently deployable services that communicate through lightweight mechanisms like HTTP APIs. The document outlines benefits of microservices like independent scalability, easier upgrades, and improved developer productivity. It also discusses prerequisites for microservices like rapid provisioning, monitoring, and continuous deployment. Examples of microservices frameworks and a demo application using Spring Boot are provided.
WSO2Con ASIA 2016: Case Study: Identity in the WSO2 EcosystemWSO2
The WSO2 ecosystem consists of several types of identities with different characteristics. Among them are customer identities, open-source community identities and the employee identities. The objective of this project was to design and implement a secure, state of the art identity and access management (IAM) system using WSO2 technology.
There are many systems in WSO2 that require authentication, authorization and provisioning. Users have to maintain many complex passwords; administrators have to manage a large number of authorizations and provisioning. Another problem with current architecture is that it is tightly bound to email addresses. If the user changes the email address, his identity will be lost.
This session will discuss how we built a state of the art identity and access management program that addresses the above problems using WSO2 Identity Server.
Azure Private Link provides private connectivity from a virtual network to Azure platform as a service (PaaS), customer-owned, or Microsoft partner services.
This document discusses conducting user research for an API management product. It outlines the research process of empathizing with users through interviews and personas, defining problems by synthesizing findings, ideating solutions through design studios, and prototyping and testing solutions. The research uncovered that API consumers want easy discovery and secure access to APIs without involving operations. It also found that API managers want observability into API usage. Outcomes of the research included API discovery and documentation pages and secure access pages. The value of user research is building empathy, validating assumptions, and providing structured feedback.
This document discusses operating containers with AWS Copilot. It begins with introductions to containers and Docker. It then discusses the AWS container landscape including Amazon ECS, ECR, and Fargate. AWS Copilot is introduced as a toolkit for containerized applications on AWS that helps with building, releasing, and operating containers. Copilot addresses common challenges like deployment, testing, releasing, and cleanup. It provides features like deployment with App Runner, scheduled jobs, release pipelines, environment variables and more. The document encourages focusing on building products rather than infrastructure and using AWS services like ECS, Fargate and Copilot to streamline container deployment.
CI - A Refactor Story - Boston DevOps Meetup March 2015Kevin Gilpin
I brief slide sequence about refactoring a monolithic Jenkins CI system into independent components: Foundation image, Build, Verify, Secrets, SSH, Workflow, Linked dependencies, Artifact “push” (deployment), Audit, and Notifications.
Spring is an open source integration framework for Java applications. It began in 2002 as an alternative to EJB and has since expanded into a full application development framework. It provides core features like inversion of control (IoC) and dependency injection (DI) and supports various web frameworks, data access technologies, messaging, and cloud technologies. The Spring community has grown significantly in recent years, with over 15 million projects generated from start.spring.io in 2019 alone.
Eclipse microprofile config and OSGi config admin - E Jiangmfrancis
OSGi Community Event 2017 Presentation by Emily Jiang [IBM]
Eclipse MicroProfile Config defines a Java programming model for microservices. It offers the capability of configuring microservices without repacking the microservices; microservices reacting differently based on the deployment environment; dynamic configuration feeding into the microservices without restarting the microservices. OSGi Config Admin exists for many years and offers an efficient configuration model to OSGi applications. MicroPorfile Config can work well in OSGi applications. It doesn't contradict but instead compliments Config Admin. Come to this session to find out the common and different features between the two technologies, as well as the possibility of integrating Eclipse MicroProfile Config to OSGi applications.
- Alfresco is the largest open source content management company in the world, founded in 2005 with offices in London and Atlanta. It has over 3 million community downloads and 250+ global channel partners.
- The Alfresco platform provides document management, records management, web content services, and enterprise collaboration across devices. It uses a open source model with RESTful APIs and open standards.
- Alfresco offers both on-premise subscription licenses for deployment on a company's own infrastructure as well as software-as-a-service subscriptions for easier installation and use. Training and certification are also available.
Packaging and Distributing Applications for KubernetesVMware Tanzu
SpringOne 2021
Session Title: Packaging and Distributing Applications for Kubernetes
Speakers: Ian Zink, Staff Software Engineer at VMware; Nitasha Verma, Solutions Engineer at VMware
IBM WebSphere Application Server Update - Technical University (March 2015)Ian Robinson
IBM WebSphere Application Server Update - presented to the WebSphere Technical University (March 2015) by Ian Robinson, WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect.
An organization's need to serve up web-based applications has changed drastically over the past 16 years and are continuing to change. No other application server in the industry today provides the range of capabilities found in IBM WebSphere Application Server - from rapidly developed and deployed lightweight applications to highly available, highly scaled, continuously available enterprise applications. This session describes the revolution that has occurred to the fastest and most flexible AppServer to run in every cloud, and the direction in which it is going.
Partying with PHP on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7goodfriday
This document discusses different ways of configuring PHP on IIS7, including loading PHP as an extension, using FastCGI, and running PHP via CGI. It compares the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. It also provides information on resources for configuring and running popular PHP applications on Windows servers using IIS7.
The document summarizes Microsoft technologies that can be used with PHP development, including:
- PHP can run on IIS using FastCGI for better performance than older methods like CGI.
- The SQL Server driver for PHP allows access to SQL Server databases.
- The Microsoft AJAX Library allows PHP applications to leverage AJAX capabilities.
- Silverlight is a tool for media and rich interactive applications that can integrate with PHP.
The document lists over 200 skills evaluations provided by Consultis including evaluations for programming languages and frameworks like .NET, Java, C#, databases like SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2, software like SAP, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and virtualization/cloud computing products like VMware and AWS. The evaluations are designed to prove proficiency in various IT skills and technologies.
The workshop covered cloud-native Java technologies using Open Liberty and MicroProfile. It included presentations on 12-factor and 15-factor application methodologies and hands-on labs exploring OpenAPI, health checks, metrics, and JWT authentication. Leaders demonstrated how to build and deploy modular, scalable microservices using open-source tools that optimize developer productivity and application portability in cloud environments.
Java technology allows programs to run on a variety of hardware platforms, including the mainframe computing platform epitomized by z Systems. The z Systems zOS operating system has a set of unique capabilities, and IBM SDK for Java provides a set of high performance Java APIs complemented by z/OS specific APIs for applications that require deep integration. This talk shows how IBM makes use of the z/OS platform to deliver world-class runtimes on the world leading mainframe.
Originally presented at the z/OS bootcamp in Hursley, 2015
Praveen Kumar has over 10 years of experience administering WebSphere application and portal servers. He is proficient in installing, configuring, deploying, and managing WebSphere servers. Praveen has extensive experience providing 24/7 support for production WebSphere environments. He also has expertise in WebSphere performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Praveen is seeking a managerial role overseeing server administration.
My keynote at Eclipsecon Europe 2013.
One of the attractive qualities of OSGi is its role in enabling technologies that adopt it to manage the cost of their own success. Anything that gains adoption - in technology or elsewhere - picks up baggage as a result and needs to figure out how to deal with current installations while expanding in new directions. The WebSphere platform has been around for almost as long as Java and knows a thing or two about baggage but still manages to travel to many places with just a carry-on allowance. We adopted OSGi internally 8 years ago and have gradually increased our exploitation with each passing release, most recently and deeply with the lightweight WAS Liberty Profile. It hasn't all been plain sailing and we learned from a number of mistakes made along the way. When WebSphere Application Server first adopted OSGi it had over 10 million lines of code in a modest number of huge JARs. The engineering effort to modularize that into a “sensible” number of OSGi bundles was fairly significant. We had a global development team spread across a dozen labs and nearly as many timezones, all learning OSGi principles at the same time. What could possibly go wrong? We did not, for example, initially adopt the services part of the OSGi architecture but it’s how we can now start/stop individual technologies of the Java EE Web Profile on the WAS Liberty profile, in a 50MB install with a 2-second startup, while still supporting a massive deploy base of applications on older levels of Java EE.
One of the challenges OSGi continues to face is over when to be “front of office” and when to be “back”. As the industry accelerates towards cloud, OSGi is an internal part of IBM’s strategy for high-density virtualized Platform-as-a-Service through WebSphere Liberty. Today’s cloud provisioning strategies, for example the buildpacks used by Heroku and CloudFoundry, are designed to be technology-agnostic. As a programming model for the cloud, OSGi is in a position of strength with its heavily service-oriented architecture. But in the spirit of agnosticism, one of the next steps OSGi needs to take is simply greater availability of the core OSGi framework in some of the more popular cloud platforms. Once there are more OSGi services running in those environments then the value and simplicity of autowiring OSGi services as cloud services becomes more apparent. Expectations and vision has to be managed up and down any organization that invests in OSGi - from the executive leadership team responsible for the business's bottom line, through the distributed architecture/development teams building tomorrow's technology on top of today’s, to the marketing and sales organization who need to sell the result to both IT and line of business. The value proposition has to be tailored to the audience.
This is the story of how WebSphere has had outstanding success with the former four-letter acronym that IBM Marketing still wants to expand.
Travelling Light for the Long Haul - Ian Robinsonmfrancis
Ian Robinson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and WebSphere Foundation Chief Architect who has over 20 years of experience in transaction processing and distributed enterprise computing. The document discusses how WebSphere Application Server moved to an OSGi modular architecture to allow for higher density deployments, continuous delivery of new features without breaking compatibility, and reduced hardware costs through more efficient use of resources. It describes the stages of adopting OSGi, from initial modularization to dynamic runtime deployment and management of features. The challenges of OSGi adoption for both internal components and external applications are also examined.
The document provides a summary of the candidate's professional experience in IT infrastructure management and system administration. Over 10 years of experience is highlighted, including expertise in networking, operating systems, databases, web servers, security, and tools like IIS, SQL Server, Active Directory, and load balancers. Specific responsibilities discussed include infrastructure support, patch management, release deployment, performance monitoring and tuning, troubleshooting, and automation. Recent work experience is outlined for two companies providing support to Microsoft commerce and advertising platforms.
Windows Server 2008 is a powerful web application and services platform that provides improved manageability, lower infrastructure costs, and powerful hosting of applications and services. New features include increased scalability, a server core installation option, support for additional web technologies like PHP, and enhanced media delivery options. Administration is simplified through tools like the unified Server Manager and powerful new APIs for automation.
ICEfaces EE is a leading development framework that allows enterprise developers to quickly build rich web applications. It provides full access to certified enterprise-ready code that is tested against Java EE technologies to ensure robust performance. ICEfaces EE offers enterprise-grade rich components, custom integration for browsers, an enterprise push server for clustered deployments, testing scripts and documentation.
Creating Dynamic Web Application Using ASP.Net 3 5_MVP Alezandra Buencamino N...Quek Lilian
The document discusses new features in Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5, including improved tools for dynamic web application development. Key points covered include enhancements to the IDE like IntelliSense support for JavaScript and AJAX, improved design tools, and better team collaboration features. New ASP.NET 3.5 capabilities like ASP.NET AJAX, LINQ, and Silverlight are also summarized, providing developers with improved tools and technologies for creating rich interactive web applications.
This document contains a summary of Mohankrishna's skills and experience working as a WebSphere Administrator. He has over 4 years of experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5. He has expertise in clustering, security, performance tuning, and providing 24/7 production support. His background includes projects with Ericsson and IBM where he administered WebSphere environments and supported various J2EE applications.
Rahul Choudhary has over 7 years of experience in middleware administration including WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache, and IIS. He currently works as a Middleware Administrator at Cognizant Technology Solutions where his responsibilities include web and application server administration, managing shifts, people management, and technical documentation. He has expertise in installing, configuring, and administering various middleware platforms and deploying applications. He also has experience with load balancers, security, performance tuning, and incident management. Rahul holds a Bachelor's degree in IT and several certifications in WebSphere and WebLogic administration.
Richard Chauvet has over 10 years of experience in .NET development using languages like C# and VB.NET. He has extensive experience with Microsoft technologies including ASP.NET, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and web services. He has worked as a contractor and employee on various projects, most recently converting an Access database to SQL Server and developing web services.
The document discusses the architecture and performance improvements of IIS 6.0 over previous versions. Key points include: IIS 6.0 uses a new process model with HTTP.sys, WAS, and worker processes to improve isolation and reliability. Features like application pools, recycling, and health monitoring enhance availability. ASP.NET applications benefit from this new architecture and best practices like caching, logical tiered design, and limiting server controls improve performance.
Comparing IIS and Apache - Questions and Answersbutest
The document compares the web servers IIS (Internet Information Services) and Apache. It provides an overview of each server and answers common questions from Apache administrators about whether IIS offers comparable performance, security, reliability, and flexibility. Key points covered include IIS 7.0's fully modular architecture, centralized XML configuration, and its use by some highly trafficked sites like MySpace to handle billions of page views per month, demonstrating its ability to scale.
IIS 7.5 in Windows Server 2008 R2 includes enhancements such as ASP.NET support on Server Core, integrated administration modules for features like FTP and WebDAV, and a PowerShell module and cmdlets for management. Other new features include configuration logging and tracing, a Best Practice Analyzer for security compliance, and application auto-start functionality. The presentation discusses these and other recent investments made by Microsoft to improve reliability, security, manageability and the feature set of IIS and the Microsoft web platform.
Alpha Anywhere presentation at the the Always on Summit -- Building Offline M...Richard Rabins
89% of businesses say they need their mobile apps to be able to work when there is no signal (VDC research data.)
Building offline capable mobile apps is very hard and time consuming. Wired Magazine says, it can easily triple the cost.
Alpha previewed Alpha Anywhere Offline at the Summit showing that offline mobile apps can be built with NO incremental time and cost (vs always connected apps.)
Alpha Anywhere - For Building Enterprise-class Mobile and Web apps Fast - wi...Richard Rabins
Alpha Anywhere
The complete prototype to production, back-end to front-end environment for RAPIDLY building enterprise class responsive mobile and web apps. Support for disconnected use coming in Q2 - more info at www.alphasoftware.com
Alpha five v11 presentation to the national uk access user groupRichard Rabins
The document discusses using Alpha Five software to build Access database applications and put them on the web. The author is a self-professed Access "nut" who was disappointed with web offerings from Access/SharePoint. After being impressed at the Alpha Five v11 launch and trialing it for 6 months, the author discusses building several web apps for clients using Alpha Five instead of replacing Access. The author stresses that Alpha Five provides a productive route to the web while still allowing them to use and love Access. They then demonstrate building a sample "Help Me!" app in both Access and Alpha Five.
Dot netsupport in alpha five v11 coming soonRichard Rabins
The document discusses the benefits of adding Microsoft .NET support to Alpha Five Version 11, including safer and more robust code, easier integration than older technologies, vendor and Microsoft support, and the ability to take advantage of .NET features and tools. It also provides an overview of the key aspects of the .NET framework like the common language runtime, code generation facilities, dynamic assembly loading, and rich class libraries.
Building a Blogging System -- Rapidly using Alpha Five v10 with Codeless AJAX...Richard Rabins
Many people think that web database applications are things like ecommerce or contact management or order entry. But in this demo you will see Jeff Cogswell has built a full AJAX powered database driven Blog that has similar functionality to Google's Blogging platform. He has chosen Alpha Five v10 with CodeLess AJAX (tm) as his development platform to do it much more rapidly vs doing it in PHP, JAVA, Ruby, Perl, Python or visual studio.net
Alpha Five v10.NEW APPLICATION SERVER. CODELESS AJAXRichard Rabins
The document summarizes the new features and enhancements in Version 10 of an application server. Key highlights include improved performance through a more efficient request parsing system and caching of resources, enhanced security through improved session and request handling, and new functionality such as custom error pages and IP address binding. It also discusses deployment considerations for hosted versus internal hosting.
Alpha Five Version 8 - Rapid tool to build Web & Desktop DB ApplicationsRichard Rabins
Overview of Alpha Five. Award winning tool that lets non programmers and professional developers build web and desktop database applications extremely rapidly and easilty.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
Dive into the world of Website Designing and Developing with Pixlogix! Looking to create a stunning online presence? Look no further! Our comprehensive checklist covers everything you need to know to craft a website that stands out. From user-friendly design to seamless functionality, we've got you covered. Don't miss out on this invaluable resource! Check out our checklist now at Pixlogix and start your journey towards a captivating online presence today.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Building RAG with self-deployed Milvus vector database and Snowpark Container...Zilliz
This talk will give hands-on advice on building RAG applications with an open-source Milvus database deployed as a docker container. We will also introduce the integration of Milvus with Snowpark Container Services.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Introducing Milvus Lite: Easy-to-Install, Easy-to-Use vector database for you...Zilliz
Join us to introduce Milvus Lite, a vector database that can run on notebooks and laptops, share the same API with Milvus, and integrate with every popular GenAI framework. This webinar is perfect for developers seeking easy-to-use, well-integrated vector databases for their GenAI apps.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
7. Architecture Alpha Five Application Server & IIS 7 Content Handlers Alpha Five Application Server Core IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline Security Providers Session State Provider Alpha Five Handlers Security/ Session/ Persistent Data Storage Alpha Five Application Server Core
14. Architecture Why Session Storage is Key to Scale-ability Session storage in folders on a single server. That’s fine if you have a single server. Session Data How does that work across servers? It doesn’t. Session Data Session Data
17. The View From XBasic Alpha Five Web Server IIS 7 Content Handlers HostContext Context Request Response Security Session Context Request Response Security Session Context Request Response Security Session Context Request Response Security Session Context Request Response Security Session Context Request Response Security Session
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Editor's Notes
Microsoft’s Internet Information Services™ version 7 introduces a number of features that increase its attractiveness as a platform on which to run Alpha Five Web Applications. IIS 7 is readily available on Windows servers IIS 7 has a very large installation base and lots of well trained administrators to deploy and manage installations There are a large number of Microsoft and 3 rd party tools to help in management of servers IIS 7 introduces a lot of extensibility enhancements that make it possible to integrate application servers such as Alpha Five directly in to the request pipeline: Security Session State Logging Configuration
Alpha Five makes novices productive and experts more effective. Rapid application development cycles are enhanced by rich abstractions that minimize or eliminate coding, while creating rich web interfaces. Support for multiple web clients makes deployment to mobile platforms not only natural, but painless. Alpha Five’s SQL database neutrality makes it possible to build an application that can easily be deployed on a variety of databases without the need to code around the subtle (and often painful) differences in SQL database implementation. Unlike many other development tools, Alpha is not pitching our own SQL engine, so we do not limit your choices for deployment. Because the cost of development, deployment and iteration is reduced, your total cost of ownership (including maintenance) is far lower and the time to market for solutions is much shorter than with other tools and environments.
In order to participate fully in the IIS 7 environment, we need to integrate tightly and make use of well tested and extensible features in IIS. This also makes it easier for administrators to adopt Alpha Five Web Applications as a part of a larger server environment. With few exceptions, the Alpha Five Web Application will look and feel like any other web application running under IIS 7. We also want to take advantage of the many tools and APIs provided by Microsoft to automate deployment. With sufficient privileges, you should be able to remotely create sites and applications and publish your applications from within the development environment. If you prefer to create an installation file, we want you to be able to do that as well. IIS 7 has been tuned for very high scale-ability and we want to take advantage of that ability by supporting single and multiple process and single and multiple server environments. IIS 7 is a different server than Alpha Five’s Web Server. The problem being solved however is the same. As a result, most of the settings and options available when using the Alpha Five Web Server are also available in IIS7. Our intention is to have the fewest number of changes required in order to run your application under IIS 7, and to make it possible to code your application so that it will run in either environment without the need for conditional coding.
IIS 7 introduces something called the Integrated Pipeline. As a web request is processed, multiple handlers have access to the request to provide such services as authentication, authorization, page serving, session state management and membership services. Alpha Five Application Server integrates with IIS 7 through a set of plug-ins and handlers that take advantage of other providers so that Alpha Five Web Applications participate fully in the IIS 7 Integrated Pipeline. This means that common functions behave as they would with any other IIS 7 web application, and Alpha Five Application Server, and user scripts are able to take advantage of rich set of functionality provided by Microsoft and other 3 rd parties. IIS 7 also includes the ability to extend the XML configuration definitions and to include user interfaces to maintain those configurations. Alpha Five Application Server will be able to read and honor configuration settings of its own and of other facilities through a standard set of configuration files recognized by IIS 7 and IIS Manager (the Microsoft tool for configuring servers and applications). IIS Manager extensions for Alpha Five Web Applications will make it possible to configure and manage Alpha Five Web Applications locally or remotely using IIS Manager.
The Alpha Five Application Server has been reworked extensively so that it can be run from a “managed” (.Net code) handler under IIS. As a result, each worker process in IIS (w3wp.exe) has its own copy of the Alpha Five runtime environment. IIS 7 sees the Alpha Five Application Server just like any other plug-in and set of page handlers. The Alpha Five environment is integrated through a managed/unmanaged interface implemented in C++/CLI; which allows C# code to call into the C runtime. An Alpha Five web page or web component is able to interact with the IIS environment, including access to Roles, User information and Session values shared with other servers.
Developers and IIS administrators can use IIS Manager (free from Microsoft) to manage and configure IIS 7 applications directly on the server or remotely. In order to integrate tightly with IIS, Alpha Five Application Server includes configuration extensions and user interface components that run under IIS Manager, and are available when doing remote administration and configuration as well.
Here is an example of using IIS Manager to set the XBasic logging for Thread Transition logs and for XBasic Errors. Note that the configuration information is being accessed from the web.config file (the XML configuration file for the application) on the server.
After saving changes through the user interface, the contents of the web.config file are updated to look like this. Note: You can hand edit the web.config file as well – if you really want to.
IIS 7 comes with a host of changes in the architecture of application configuration, deployment tools and programming APIs. We are in the process of doing proofs of concept, but intend to make full use of those tools to make automated deployment an integral part of the development environment.
In order to automate deployment from the development environment of Alpha Five, we plan to integrate calls to .Net APIs made available by Microsoft that allow us to deploy locally, remotely and to create deployment packages that can be imported into IIS 7 using IIS Manager.
There are several fundamental concerns associated with scaling a web application. On a single server, with multiple threads, as long as data isn’t accessed at the same time, it is available to all scripts. On a single server with multiple processes (Web Garden), files can be shared, but anything stored in memory is not available to other servers. On multiple servers (Web Farm), files may not be shareable and it may be necessary to create an additional server from which to get session state, security information and generated files. Session state and security information, and any persistent data must be available to all servers from a common store. Once these dependencies are removed, it is possible to move beyond a single server to multiple servers (a Web Farm)
In order for applications to scale well, session data (values that are saved between web requests) must be available no matter which server processes subsequent requests. If data is stored on a local disk that is inaccessible to another server, the session state is effectively lost. Even if two servers could share a single disk, contention problems would need to be addressed. If the server with the disk on it fails, the session is also lost. IIS 7 provides an extensible and configurable service that saves data between requests and makes it available to all servers.
Here you can see the three basic configurations for scaling a web application with Alpha Five Application Server and IIS 7. Single Process – Here a single server has a single process configured to run multiple threads in a similar fashion to the Alpha Five Web Server. Web Garden – This configuration is similar (and identical in configuration to Single Process) with one small exception. The Process count in the application pool is set to a number greater than 1. Web Farm – Microsoft provides a rather extensive infrastructure to support publishing an application to multiple servers and sharing configuration information. While we do not plan to offer automated deployment to Web Farms in the immediate future, there is no reason why you can not use XCopy deployment or the Web Farm tools provided by Microsoft to scale your application.
In order to minimize the impact on existing applications being published to IIS 7, we need to make as much of the existing user code work as possible. For our own software, we are working to remove any assumptions about the existing environment (session state, security, server data structures) that would prevent proper functioning under IIS 7. As part of this effort, we are creating a set of objects common to both environments. This will be discussed in more detail later. While some of the configuration settings for security and web services do not apply in the IIS 7 environment, many do. Any settings that have analogues in the IIS 7 environment will be converted into configuration file settings for deployment on IIS 7. Although the new objects will be replacing existing functions in Alpha Five, and those functions will be deprecated, we don’t want to break applications using the existing functions. Wherever possible, those functions will automatically call into the newer objects and functions. You are encouraged to convert any scripts using deprecated function calls to the newer model as soon as possible because new features will depend on them. If you use the new objects, you will not have to write any tests in your code to determine which server you are running under. These tests slow down your application and increase the load on the server.
Alpha Five Application Server version 11 introduces a new set of objects that provide a consistent set of services whether you are running under IIS7 or under the Alpha Five Web Server. The object interfaces are identical, but the implementations are specific to the environment under which your application is running. If you need to access services that Alpha Five does not abstract and you are willing to commit to one platform or the other (or write conditional code), you can access the HostContext property of the context object for a platform specific set of objects. For example, if the application is running under IIS 7, the HostContext property will return the HttpContext object passed in to the page handler. From this object, you can also access the HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and other objects available from the HttpContext.