This day of the conference has to do with some very important topics:
Industrial Session
Research Session on Interfaces
Demo Sessions
IWWOST (International Workshop on Web-Oriented Software Technologies)
Social Dinner

Industrial Session

The Industrial Session involved many people talking about their works and their experience in Web Technologies and Industrial experiences.

These were the presentations:

Roberto Acerbis, Aldo Bongio, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Massimo Tisi and Emanuele Tosetti.
Developing eBusiness solutions with a Model Driven Approach
I already knew these guys and I already knew what they did! It is very surprising for me the increase in speed of work and decrease in work-hours due to the tools used in this case (WebRatio) which allow to mantain a very big architecture and Web Application with less time and work.

Emily Medina, Sunny Fugate and Marion Ceruti.
Next-Generation Tactical-Situation-Assessment (TSAT): Chat

Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot and Nathalie Moreno.
Tool Support for Model Checking of Web application designs

Ike Nassi, Joydip Das and Ming-Chien Shan.
The Challenges of Application Service Hosting

Research Session on Interfaces

The Research Session involved these presentations:

Stefan Betermieux and Birgit Bomsdorf.
Finalizing Dialog Models at Runtime

Gustavo Rossi, Jeronimo Ginzburg, Matias Urbieta and Damiano Distante.
Transparent Interface Composition for Web Applications

Matthias Book, Volker Gruhn and Jan Richter.
Fine-Grained Specification and Control of Data Flows in Web-based User Interfaces 

Giulio Mori, Fabio Paternò and Carmen Santoro.
Authoring Multi-Device Web Applications with Database Access

Andre Fialho and Daniel Schwabe.
Enriching Hypermedia Application Interfaces
I like very much this presentation for the idea of animating the interface in Web Presentation. I don’t know if anyone will decide to implement this idea in their websites…

Demo Sessions

The Demos took part in the same time and everyone could go to a demo and ask to be shown on their functionality.
These were the demos:

Jin Yu, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera and Regis Saint-Paul.
Mixup: a Development and Runtime Environment for Integration at the Presentation Layer

Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza and Andrea Turati.
Squiggle: an experience in model-driven development of real-world Semantic Search Engines

Santiago Meliá, Jaime Gomez and Jose Luís Serrano.
WebTE: MDA Transformation Engine for Web Applications

Giansalvatore Mecca, Salvatore Raunich, Alessandro Pappalardo and Donatello Santoro.
Noodles: A Clustering Engine for the Web

Roberto Acerbis, Aldo Bongio, Marco Brambilla and Stefano Butti.
WebRatio 5: An Eclipse-based CASE tool for engineering Web applications

Cédric Mesnage and Eyal Oren.
Extending Ruby on Rails for Semantic Web Applications

Michal Tvarozek and Maria Bielikova.
Personalized Faceted Navigation in the Semantic Web

Yevgen Borodin, Jalal Mahmud, Asad Ahmed and I.V. Ramakrishnan.
WebVAT: Web Page Visualization and Analysis Tool

Athula Ginige, Xufeng Liang, Makis Marmaridis, Anupama Ginige and Buddhima De Silva.
Smart Tools to support Meta-Design Paradigm for Developing Web based Business Applications

IWWOST

IWWOST workshop presented some papers:

I address to the link to know more of the presentations.

Then they have a sort of round table where everyone asks questions, shares ideas, presents issues: a very good example of sharing knowledge and synchronizing ideas.

Conference Social Dinner

But in the end of the day everyone was waiting for the Social Dinner at Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio
In the websites you can see many pictures of that very beautiful Hotel.
First of all we took a boat which took us to Bellagio from Como.
Then we could walk along the very beautiful and very small town.
At 8 o’clock we started our dinner with very good service (not Web Service luckily ) and very raffinated food and wine.

I’m waiting for your comments!

Technorati Tags: ICWE2007, ICWE 2007, Como, IWWOST, Bellagio, Demo

Today is the really first official day of the Conference.
After the Welcome Cocktail held on Villa Olmo on monday evening (anyone impressions? Comments here…) today Works are starting up with the Official Opening Ceremony of the conference performed by the Chair Professor Piero Fraternali.
After a short presentation of the city, the university of Politecnico di Milano, and the works that have to be done during the conference, he passed the token to mr. Adam Bosworth, Vice President of Engineering at Google inc.

This “guy” has been presented as one of the man who took part to the story of Internet and Computer Science, and he didn’t disappointed the audience.  His keynote was very dense and full of ideas about “The future of Web and Desktop applications”.  I personally found very attractive his way of speaking about it balancing technical things with psychological topics and so on…  In the end of his speaking he made a little presentation about Google Gears, the new technology implemented by Google in order to allow people and (only certain kind of) Web Application to work also without direct connection to the Internet, synchronizing all the data only when connection is active (similar to Blackberry I think…).

Then, during the day, there have been one Workshop, two Research Session (“Services” and “Metrics”) and two Events (“ALFA project” and “DISCoRSO project”) but I could take part only to the workshop, so I hope someone could add their impression on the others events here in the comments.

The workshop was about “MDWE: Model-Driven Web Engineering”.
It was held by Geert-Jan Houben and Nora Koch and it allowed people to show their papers and works to the audience inviting them to discussions and also collaboration I think…
The presented papers could be found here.

Patrick Freudenstein, Jan Buck, Martin Nussbaumer, Martin Gaedke
“Model-driven Construction of Workflow-based Web Applications with Domain-specific Languages”

Pau Giner, Victoria Torres, Vincente Pelechano
“Bridging the Gap between BPMN and WS-BPEL. M2M Transformations in Practice”

Andreas Kraus, Alexander Knapp, Nora Koch
“Model-driven Generation of Web Applications in UWE”
This was one of the first times I heard about UWE: it is more or less an extended UML to design Web Applications.
In the end I was very impressed by UWE, so “Good Luck guys!”.

Manuel Wimmer, Andrea Schauerhuber, Wieland Schwinger, Horst Kargl
“On the Integration of Web Modelling Languages”
Very beautiful presentation about the need to integrate the Web Modelling Languages. It was very interesting for me to hear about the many Web Modelling languages and how do they work but I can’t understand why there are so many (my answer is: for the same reason we have so many car manufacturers, fashion brands and so on…) and what are the differences between them. Is there a language better than the others?

Valeria De Castro, Juan Manuel Vara, Esperanza Marcos
“Model Transformation for Service-Oriented Web Applications Development”

Giovanni Toffetti Carughi
“Modeling data-intensive Rich Internet Applications with server push support”
I found this paper very interesting also because I knew many of the things that were presented. I found these RIA very interesting for the future, but I have the same doubts that Adam Bosworth raised during the morning: “Are these Web Applications suitable for every connection? for every device?”
I think that the future shoud be on the Web-Desktop Applications: perhaps today they are not suitable for everyine, but in the future…

Technorati Tags: ICWE 2007, Piero Fraternali, Adam Bosworth, MDWE, Como, Politecnico di Milani, POLIMI

Come vi avevo preannunciato, la Conferenza Internazionale per il Web Engineering è arrivata.
La Conferenza è Internazionale, quindi, purtroppo per i miei lettori italiani, gli articoli saranno scritti il più possibile in Inglese.

As I announced, ICWE 2007 is arrived.
This morning conference started with the tutorial on Web Services and a Workshop on Web quality, verification and validation.
Unfortunately I can’t participate to them so I start following ICWE from this afternoon.

– Update –

As a Student Volunteer I have to help during the sessions and now I’m helping at the MDWEnet meeting.
This workshop has a first meeting today and we will meet also tomorrow (tuesday) for the real MDWE Workshop.
Model-Driven Web Engineering meeting collects the ideas of many people involved in research about model-driven WE.

Presentation #1
Universidad de Alicante, Spain

Presentation #2
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Evaluation techniques in WebML models.
Creation of metamodels using transformations in FPA metamodels to do some methric calculations.

Presentation #3
Technical University Vienna, Austria
Creation of a Map of projects with similar goals.
They created a method to translate from a Model to another Model and they think they will show a demo next meeting.

Presentation #4
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
UWE – Uml for Web Engineer
Presentation about problems related to the information about this area: creation of a wiki, production of papers, stuff…

Presentation #5
University of Alicante, Spain
Alicante “Work On Progress”
-Evaluation on Quality and Effort in developing Web Applications.
It stands out a request of collaboration with Politecnico of Milano to compare the two methods of evaluation.

PS: I would like to underline that all what I write here is only my personal understanding and interpretation of what happened at ICWE, so take it as is.
If you want to add your opinions or correct some things please add a comment!

Da quando Feedburner, servzio per la gestione dei feedcast, è stato acquisito da Google, anche questo servizio sta prendendo parte della filosofa di Google, pertanto ecco il primo risultato: le feature PRO, che prima erano a pagamento, adesso sono completamente FREE per tutti.
Basta registrare un account ed avere un proprio blog.

Volevo segnalare a tutti questi due siti che “regalano” software…

Il primo, http://it.giveawayoftheday.com/ regala software applicativo, uno diverso ogni giorno, che solitamente è a pagamento, ma se viene installato nel giorno dell’offerta, la sua licenza sarà gratis.

Il secondo, http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/ si occupa di regalare giochi secondo la stessa filosofia del primo.  Non so se esistono altre versioni di questi “Babbi Natale del software”, ma se ne conoscete fatemi sapere!

Technorati Tags: software, free

La seconda parte del MVC, il business tier, è implementato (in stile Java) con gli Enterprise Java Beans.
Vi sono 3 tipi di EJB:
- Session Beans;
- Entity Beans;
- Message Beans.

Per maggiori informazioni si rimanda a Google.

Technorati Tags: J2EE, MVC, EJB

Ieri, mentre guidando ascoltavo il Festivalbar alla radio, ho sentito per la prima volta in TV il vocabolo GUGOLARE.
J-Ax, famoso cantante di hip hop ex-articolo 31, sul palco ha raccontato un aneddoto e, spiegando che aveva cercato su internet il nome di un gruppo rock, ha usato il verbo GUGOLARE.
Segno dei tempi che cambiano.

Jakarta Struts è un progetto di Apache che implementa in maniera ottimale e performante la parte del Controller di una architettura MVC.
Si compone principalmente di 3 parti: Action Servlet, Request Processor d Action Classes.
Per maggiori dettagli si rimanda ad una ricerca su Google.

Technorati Tags: MVC, Java, Struts

Saranno disponibili i nuovi distintivi di Progressione Personale presso le Cooperative a partire da sabato 7 luglio 2007.

Il prezzo di vendita ai soci Agesci è stato fissato ad Euro 1,80 cad., ma per venire incontro ai ragazzi che dovranno sostituire tutte le tappe è stato fissato un prezzo promozionale di Euro 5,00 valido esclusivamente per l’acquisto di un kit completo e con scadenza 31 dicembre 2007.

Fonte: Agesci.org

Technorati Tags: scout, agesci, e/g

Oggi si è tenuta a Roma la Conferenza Stampa riguardo il Jamboree del Centenario.

L’Italia manderà il terzo contingente per numero (2400 persone) che si incontreranno in Inghilterra per un Jamboree di circa 40000 ragazzi e ragazze Scout.

Buona caccia Ragazzi!

Fonte: Agesci.org e jamboree2007.it.

Technorati Tags: Scout, centenario, jamboree, 2007