SYS-CON.TV broadcast an hour-long "RIA Shoot-Out" live from studios overlooking New York's Times Square on Monday, June 4. The broadcast covered several Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies and featured a lively debate among members of an expert panel, followed by a spirited Q&A session. The broadcast was moderated by SYS-CON.TV Founder and Host Roger Strukhoff.

The 60-minute live presentation focuses on the management of code quality, which has always been a grey area in software development. The main goal of a Java development manager has been to develop a working application and deploy it in a production environment, and on time.

After deployment, bugs begin inevitably to pop up here and there, users of the application are unhappy, and the project's success end up depending on the skills and goodwill of Java programmers to iron out the bugs.

According to JDJ Enterprise Editor Yakov Fain that whole cycle is unnecessary. In this Webinar, Yakov Fain will discusses the topic with two of his guests, Enerjy Software founder and CEO Nigel Cheshire and Andy Cross, President and CEO of Clear Horizons Research.

Fain also introduces an essential new product from Enerjy Software that allows you to enforce Java coding standards from the get-go and that shows you the up-to-date state of your project's code base to minimize future surprises. "The really good part of participationg in this live presentation is that you don't even need to know Java," says Fain.

Milinkovich, in summarizing the benefits of the RCP approach, said "this is about bringing Java back to the desktop," a thought which both he and Taylor said applies to all developers. As an example, when questioned about its benefits to current .NET developers, Milinkovich noted "that for programmers who program in C#, for example, it's not a big jump. And the fact that developers can build, deploy, and manage applications on multiple desktops and operating systems make this a differentiator."

Instantiations CEO Mike Taylor outlined a number of the key benefits of his company's product, RCP Developer, which the Instantiations website notes is designed "to accelerate the creation of Eclipse RCP applications by providing tools for constructing and testing graphical user interfaces and packaging rich client applications for deployment."

Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a runtime platform for delivering your Java applications on multiple platforms. RCP is far more than just a widget toolkit; it is effectively rich client "middleware" that provides a comprehensive platform for building and deploying applications that are modular, extensible, and updatable.

Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) originated as an effort to formalize what some organizations had been already been doing with earlier versions: using the richness of the open source Eclipse platform to deliver high quality applications that provide rich user experiences. Since then, numerous organizations (including NASA, IBM, and Novell) have started to leverage Eclipse as the delivery platform for their own applications. As Eclipse continues to evolve, so does the support for building rich client applications.

During this session, through a combination of presentation and demonstration, we will show you how to leverage Eclipse 3.2 and the entire Eclipse eco-system to build and deploy rich client applications targeting multiple operating systems (Linux, UNIX, MacOS, Windows, and mobile devices).

Data Access and Mediation Strategies

This session explains how Eclipse developers can use the Eclipse Data Tools Platform as a platform for rapid innovation, and combine their existing Eclipse skills with the Eclipse DTP and the Ingres DBMS to produce rich data based applications that seamlessly scale from the desktop to the data center.

This session is ideal for Java developers who want to immediately become productive writing applications that slot right into an SOA architecture.

Until now, for companies looking to deploy extremely high-performance applications requiring complex integrations, leveraging a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) as a solution was considered risky. But recent advances in the core technologies that enable SOAs are changing that, and are making SOA the preferred infrastructure for the highly scalable and reliable applications that drive today's on-demand world. Join Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of SOA World magazine, and Annraí O'Toole, CEO of Cape Clear Software, for an in-depth discussion on leveraging SOA to ensure maximum scalability, reliability, and productivity for today's most demanding applications.

In other industries (e.g. finance, healthcare) metrics are required, managed and accepted as way to determine and ensure the quality and consistency of each individual's performance. Why, then, does the software development industry consider it taboo to gather and manage quality-related metrics at the developer level?

Join Enerjy CEO, Nigel Cheshire; industry analyst, Andrew Binstock and JDJ publisher, Jeremy Geelan, as they discuss the importance of implementing quality metrics to build an effective software development process and the benefits of managing metrics at the developer level. During this Webinar learn:

• Why per-developer quality metrics are an essential part of a well-managed software development process.
• How per-developer metrics can be dangerous if not used appropriately.
• What metrics can and should be measured.
• How specific metrics are collected.
• How quality metrics can provide process transparency that will benefit the whole team.
• How to accrue immediate business benefits, as well as long-term ROI from the introduction and management of a quality metrics program.