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MIT's Application Architecture Seminar for IAP 2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Tue Jan 4 16:29:32 2000
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From: Robert Ferrara <rferrara@MIT.EDU>
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Hello,
This is a reminder that there is an IAP seminar (or more accurately, a
discussion group) on MIT's Application Architecture scheduled for
Monday, Jan 10, from 2-4pm in 10-250. The purpose is to bring together
people who have an active interest in application development and
deployment from around MIT. This is the formal writeup from the IAP pages:
"MIT's major administrative application landscape has undergone a major
transformation, driven by new requirements and by the need to upgrade
ystems for Y2K. SAP, the MIT Data Warehouse, COEUS, ADONIS, and a host of
new systems have just replaced most of the home grown applications that
preceded them. This seminar examines the infrastructure on which these
applications rest, how the major pieces fit together, and some issues MIT
is tackling - ahead of industry - to make them operational in our
environment."
My notion is that we would spend a little time describing what is in place.
There are already some slides (and the Integration Web Pages) which
illustrate very well the key components of MIT's current application
architecture. A good case study is the recently completed NIMBUS
application, which incorporated many of them directly and substantially
reduced "new code" and development time.
After that, we would spend some time discussing the next steps that people
felt are needed to prepare for future applications. Suzana Lisanti and Jeff
Schiller have begun talking about components (java beans) that could be
readily plugged into web pages to access our back end systems. If we are
going to lead the pack in the coming "portal wars", good implementations of
these ideas could make the difference. Speaking of good implementations,
Scott Thorne continues to make headway on developing data models for key
MIT relationships. So there is plenty to discuss.
Please feel free to invite those who are interested in this subject.
Cheers, Bob
