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Hello all. Hope you had a good holiday.

This Thursday, we will be hosting the next installment of our WebSphere Users Group Open Source Lab at the IBM Innovation Center downtown. Last month, we talked a bit about the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) architecture and the Java Persistence API (JPA). This month, we will give a high-level overview Web Services, AJAX and the Dojo Toolkit. Specifically, we’ll be discussing:

- What are Web Services?
- What types of Web Services exist?
- How do they interact with EJB 3?
- What is AJAX?
- How does AJAX interact with Web Services?
- How can you use the Dojo Toolkit to avoid pulling out your hair when interacting with AJAX and Web Services?

Based on feedback from the last session, we’re going to keep the lecture portion brief to allow more time to discuss the application. Speaking of which, a few of us got together over the holiday weekend and hammered out the EJB code for our Domain Model. We plan to have a brief show-and-tell to kick off the application discussion. If there’s time, we’ll also try to compare our Entity classes to the relational database model generated by the JPA. Then, we will open up the discussion and drill down into the finer details of the use cases and business logic. By the end of the discussion, we should have more than a few “user stories” to code against for next time.

Hope to see you all there.

RSVP with Robert Serrano at rserra3@uic.edu

We’ll be starting around 5:30pm and the location is:

71 S Wacker Dr, Floor 6
Chicago, IL 60606

Also, if you can’t make it on time due to a class conflict, don’t be afraid to show up late. We’d love to have you join us for the application discussion at the end.

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