We had about 25 people attend the RTP WebSphere Users Group meeting last night. The first 30 minutes belonged to Andrew Spyker of the WAS team, who gave a presentation on new XML support being delivered in the upcoming WAS v7 XML Feature Pack, along with one of the youtube videos showing how quick, easy and powerful the new XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, and XQuery 1.0 support is. If you missed the meeting, everything Andrew shared (and more!) is available from this post on the WebSphere Community Blog.
The remainder of the evening was dedicated to allowing the group to try WebSphere sMash in a self-directed, hands-on lab setting. A number of the tutorials from our Getting Started and Developers Guide were printed off beforehand and available for the attendees to crawl, walk and hopefully run through. Results over the next 90 minutes were a little more crawl than we would have liked. The introductory tutorial demonstrated some of the very basic elements of the programming model and AppBuilder tooling and was a pretty safe dip in the sMash pool. The second tutorial in the list was the Zero Resource Model tutorial, with the User Interface as the Starting Point. Its a big conceptual jump and the unwelcome additions of some outdated tutorial instructions that led to a code problem or two, some very small text, and an unfamiliar environment turned the remainder of the evening into a group usability and debugging session. At least some of the folks got to the end of the ZRM tutorial and had a nicely coupled set of forms, databases and Dojo data grids dancing on their screens. We’ve written a number of new bugs this morning as a result of the observations during the meeting.
There was some time for general conversation and several good questions were raised:
- A question on getting started with iWidget support, which is demonstrated in this Developers Guide iWidget tutorial.
- A question on DB2 integration, which is documented in the Zero Data section of the Developers Guide, with specific configuration examples in the Troubleshooting section.
- Multiple questions on integration and deployment in a WebSphere Application Server environment. Its a very common request and we’ve had ongoing discussion and investigation in this Forum thread and on this Wiki page. Please add to that discussion if you’ve got interest.
Our thanks to everyone who attended, and apologies for the added degree of difficulty some of the tutorial instructions contributed. If any of the attendees continue with the tutorials and get stuck, please feel free to post questions on the Forum. We’re glad to continue support over there!
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Hey Jeff, We have canned labs that were developed by Roland that we’ve used at impact, WSTC and in the IIC here in Hursley. They usually go pretty well so if you do something like this again I’d suggest you get them from Roland, colin or myself.