Speakers

Saturday Schedule

Sunday Schedule

PRG01 - Java and OS/2

• Date/Time : Sunday, 10:30 AM
  
• Location : Concho
  
• Speaker : Ron Capelli, IBM
  

  An overview of Java on OS/2. This presentation will address how Java is adapted for OS/2. Java features and extension packages available for OS/2 will be reviewed.
  

PRG02 - XML Processing on the OS/2 platform

• Date/Time : Saturday, 10:00 AM
  
• Location : Bosque
  
• Speaker : Gregory Bourassa
  

  An updated version of Greg's Toronto presentation on XML processing options for OS/2. Now that IBM is promising an XML parser for OS/2, there should be topical news and test results from that quarter. There have been advances on Greg's own OS/2-native XML parser as well, and some cool applications of XML to generate source code in multiple languages will be presented.
  

PRG03 - Problem Determination Tools in OS/2

• Date/Time : Sunday, 09:00 AM
  
• Location : Concho
  
• Speaker : Scott Garfinkle, IBM
  

  An overview of the tools available for debugging OS/2 system problems. We will discuss the use of the debug kernel, dump formatter, and system trace. This class is meant for people who are already somewhat familiar with OS/2 and want to start debugging.
  

PRG04 - OS/2 Device Driver Programming - What You Don't Find In The Books

• Date/Time : Saturday, 02:00PM - Sunday, 10:30 AM
  
• Location : Guadelupe - Bosque
  
• Speaker : Daniela Engert
  

  This presentation is not meant for the beginners, but for people who have at least a little experience in device driver programming. I will show a couple of tips'n'tricks and code snippets to make both developers and users more happy with the results of their efforts.
  

PRG05 - Writing Rexx Programs for the WarpDoctor Rexx Netscape Plug-in

• Date/Time : Sunday, 09:30 AM
  
• Location : Bosque
  
• Speaker : Douglas Clark
  

  This presentation will show how to write Rexx programs that run in the WarpDoctor Rexx Plug-in with Netscape, Mozilla and Opera browsers. Topics covered will be:

  • WarpDoctor project and the Rexx Plug-in
    
  • Plug-in verses helper apps and the magic of MIME-Types
    
  • Plug-in API - how to call plug-in functions from Rexx
    
  • Rexx running as plug-in macro verses Rexx running in Command Prompt window
    
  • Visual Rexx programs (VX-Rexx, GPF Rexx, DrRexx) running as applets on the HTML page
    
  • Sending data to web server, getting files from server, etc.
    
  • Installing the plug-in and associated files
    
  • Cross platform issues/potential