More than 80 members attended the January meeting of the OCEAN User Group of Southern California to hear author and System i consultant Joe Pluta discuss WebSphere and the EGL language in two separate presentations.
Pluta, who flew out from his home in Chicago to speak to users in California, began the first session during the afternoon with a three-hour presentation on WebSphere. Attendees broke for a group-sponsored buffet dinner, and most stayed for the second presentation on Enterprise Generation Language, or EGL, today's neutral language that evolved from 4GL.
Attendees learned that EGL is being continuously enhanced by IBM with new language constructs, integration with new technologies, such as JSF, and new code generation drivers for modern runtime platforms. EGL continues to provide developers with an abstraction layer that enhances productivity.
The OCEAN User Group, one of the largest in the country, boasts more than 350 registered members and credits much of its success to timely technical presentations, such as the ones Pluta gave. While members pay modest annual dues, most of the group's funding comes from its annual technical conference held during the summer.
For more information about the OCEAN User Group, visit http://www.ocean400.org/, or call Bob Langieri at 949-240-0438. Contact Pluta at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Chris Smith was the Senior News Editor at MC Press Online from 2007 to 2012 and was responsible for the news content on the company's Web site. Chris has been writing about the IBM midrange industry since 1992 when he signed on with Duke Communications as West Coast Editor of News 3X/400. With a bachelor's from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in English and minored in Journalism, and a master's in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Chris later studied computer programming and AS/400 operations at Long Beach City College. An award-winning writer with two Maggie Awards, four business books, and a collection of poetry to his credit, Chris began his newspaper career as a reporter in northern California, later worked as night city editor for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and went on to edit a national cable television trade magazine. He was Communications Manager for McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, Calif., before it merged with Boeing, and oversaw implementation of the company's first IBM desktop publishing system there. An editor for MC Press Online since 2007, Chris has authored some 300 articles on a broad range of topics surrounding the IBM midrange platform that have appeared in the company's eight industry-leading newsletters. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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More than 80 members attended the January meeting of the OCEAN User Group of Southern California to hear author and System i consultant Joe Pluta discuss WebSphere and the EGL language in two separate presentations.
Pluta, who flew out from his home in Chicago to speak to users in California, began the first session during the afternoon with a three-hour presentation on WebSphere. Attendees broke for a group-sponsored buffet dinner, and most stayed for the second presentation on Enterprise Generation Language, or EGL, today's neutral language that evolved from 4GL.
Attendees learned that EGL is being continuously enhanced by IBM with new language constructs, integration with new technologies, such as JSF, and new code generation drivers for modern runtime platforms. EGL continues to provide developers with an abstraction layer that enhances productivity.
The OCEAN User Group, one of the largest in the country, boasts more than 350 registered members and credits much of its success to timely technical presentations, such as the ones Pluta gave. While members pay modest annual dues, most of the group's funding comes from its annual technical conference held during the summer.
For more information about the OCEAN User Group, visit http://www.ocean400.org/, or call Bob Langieri at 949-240-0438. Contact Pluta at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Chris Smith was the Senior News Editor at MC Press Online from 2007 to 2012 and was responsible for the news content on the company's Web site. Chris has been writing about the IBM midrange industry since 1992 when he signed on with Duke Communications as West Coast Editor of News 3X/400. With a bachelor's from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in English and minored in Journalism, and a master's in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Chris later studied computer programming and AS/400 operations at Long Beach City College. An award-winning writer with two Maggie Awards, four business books, and a collection of poetry to his credit, Chris began his newspaper career as a reporter in northern California, later worked as night city editor for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and went on to edit a national cable television trade magazine. He was Communications Manager for McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, Calif., before it merged with Boeing, and oversaw implementation of the company's first IBM desktop publishing system there. An editor for MC Press Online since 2007, Chris has authored some 300 articles on a broad range of topics surrounding the IBM midrange platform that have appeared in the company's eight industry-leading newsletters. He can be reached at chriswriting@cs.com.
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