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# WWDC2001 Session 600

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Kind: captions Language: en thank you all very much for coming as some of you are just scooting in at the last second how many of you for you is this your first Developers Conference Wow thank you all so much how many of you who have been more how many of you have been to more than two developer conferences Wow so all of you people who are newbies check out the old folks so you know who to bug for questions all of you who've been around for a very long time please welcome all these new people or helping us expand the community it is great to see you all here I'm glad we have a Civic Auditorium this year those who've you been here for the last two years now that we've always overflowed the room that we have been in that doesn't seem to be a problem today at the rate we're growing there could be a problem another year or two in which case we'll try and run out the San Jose arena for the next web objects little review session it is great to be here we are so excited to have you here we got a lot of great stuff to talk about and a lot of great speakers and people I want to bring up on stage so I'll go ahead and get started just start out with I want to welcome you to the world of web objects for those of you who are here for the first time we got a lot of things to cover this is really a whole new beginning this is the beginning of my talk it's the beginning of lots of cheesy animations more importantly it's been a week full of learning there are so many sessions that people working like crazy for the last few weeks to get ready for you we got some brilliant people some fantastic speakers you're going to learn so much here in the web objects track as well as in the other tracks that you may have a chance to sample it's also the building of a whole new era for web objects web objects as you know really created the app server market five years ago we've been working very hard to try and bring it up into the modern internet age with the emergence of java and internet standards as well as being part of the Apple community and we really think we've done something pretty fantastic it's a work in progress like everything else in this world but we're very excitable what we've done and really want to help you get involved what we're doing the seven things we'll be learning this week first of all we want to help you get to know the people behind web objects get to know the people that you've been seeing the email from or code samples from over the years want to give you the inside scoop on what objects five as you've probably heard about this morning when I talked with a little bit towards the end about some of the things we're doing with documentation some of the training and consulting services available for my services some information about the different sort of sessions you want to attend this week as well as a few surprises so to start with I want to invite out the engineering team behind web objects these are the people who have built with objects five [Applause] [Laughter] I've been choreography lessons later but this is Tony crew yovan is the new director of objects recently promoted to director in charge of objects engineering I've asked you to hold your applause to the end Oh we'll never get finished with this Jen you have proven on charge of the quality and sustaining engineering andreas banker Jeff Glasson francois jiwoo and stan german big hand for Baba's engineering of course all of you know the gang a product out the door and billing the software is only a small piece of the puzzle so I also want to give you a chance to meet the rest of the team behind webobjects Bob if you could lead out the troops please this is the web object support team Bob and I are in marketing we lead other people follow eventually we have with these to announce Bob Fraser the new web objects product manager Bob works position that many of you know I've been trying to fill my job is to be in charge of all the developers stuff we do at Apple and I want someone who could really focus on moe Bob you truly understood the technology to really focus 100% on building and selling web objects so very pleased to have Bob Fraser on board many of you know Tavares Ford he's at the end of the DTS email address that many of you have to deal with Matt Rolf's and of course is in charge of documentation for web objects he'll be sharing more shortly Robert esker is in charge of all the service and support for web objects and Mac OS 10 server in the Apple care organization and then Tim Johnson and James MC from Apple Life Services who many of you know thank you guys very much and of course the star of our show web objects 5 what objects 5 is shipping today we are very excited to have web objects 5 out here is just telling the number of people this is the first time I've ever had all GM software sitting on my computer Mac OS 10 is GM well babak's 5 is GM Mac OS 10 server is GM and not only is it all GM software I can hold it all in one hand and carry around for a full day without getting tired thanks to the new titanium PowerBook g4 it's a wonderful time to be an apple developer we're very excited that the original web application server is now available in Java and we really want the world to know that this is the incredibly powerful way to create Java server applications there's a lot of people building server applications in Java a lot of them putting an awful lot of effort into it we want to say you know hey we want people who are smart but lazy to do it the web objects way there's really two things we're focusing on with what objects 5 we really see this as the engine engine for powering the internet because the most exciting thing on the Internet today is rich dynamic content and this is a great way for large organizations who have a lot of content where that's digital multimedia whether it's large corporate databases we're at enterprise integration systems they need to be able to interact with that data across the internet this is also a great way for web developers to bring their applications to the internet a lot of people who have desktop applications client-server applications legacy web applications they need something really flexible scalable and maintainable we wanted people to see that what about this really is the smart way to bring their applications to the Internet now some of you may be new to web objects so I just want to step real quickly through the architecture that we use in web objects now all of you familiar with static websites where you have a basic HTML file deliver it through a web server to a browser client what an application server does is it makes that much more dynamic this way you don't have all the same people saying the same content all the time we introduced an application server into the mix which allows you to put dynamic logic in the middle of your application and then rather than having to hand code the HTML you have templates which allow you to easily interject the appropriate formatting and present for your application and then you have an object model you pull your information from now a lot of these times you will have the same file where people try to put their application logic and their object model and their templates all together some scripting languages which remain unnamed are notorious for the sort of thing well objects we have a nice strict separation which are our object model and our templates and our business logic and our abdu model also isolates you directly from the databases your temp your HTML file does not know what database you are using it doesn't know the schema of your database all you know is that there's an object model which can talk to mainframes databases ERP systems direct directories or XML data streams the other great thing about this because this modular architecture you can is that same logic in the same backends to deliver extremely rich clients using Java not just HTML and also you can use your application server technology that runs on the server to really scale up the power and flexibility of your system to meet increased load so with one obvious table there's really five key benefits we're talking about since we have so many new people here I really wanted to stress some of the things the many of you in the web objects community may have taken for granted and but people have failed to realize the web objects even though a lot of other people have appeared in the last five years there's still several powerful advantages that well be about it's has or competing technologies these five key technologies that want to spend some time on our automated data access streamline page generation incredibly powerful rich desktop application support a very scalable Java deployment and integrated developer tools so starting with I will talk a little bit more about automated data access the big thing about web objects is you don't need to write SQL or JDBC code in order to talk to a database we automate all that hard work for you this makes a couple of benefits one it means you're independent of your database you can change databases you can modify the schema you can several databases at once your application code doesn't have to know the intimate details of your database much more flexibility it also means your application programmers don't have to be very sophisticated database programmers we handle all the fetching although caching all the updating of your database objects automatically via this transparent persistence layer notice prized objects help demonstrate this I wanna vine up Inverness Kim of the web objects engineering team to do a quick demo of how we do data modeling and web objects Ernest and can we please switch we please switch to the demo machine so we have here web objects five running on Mac OS 10 taking advantage of the gorgeous lock wheel user interface and we'll go ahead and create a new data model so we just go through and you notice the JDBC is the preferred data based access mechanism for web objects five you just actually access it via a standard URL going over the network or to the localhost for a database for this example we'll use open base which is available as part of the developer tools to support our examples the number of other databases available for web objects as we'll be talking about shortly and we just find a database table we choose some of the information that we want to walk through and I'm a Figo's and reverse engineers a data model and we'll actually for simplicity we'll skip over the relationships but you see there's a whole host of tables and it goes through and it figures out what the tables are and generates objects that correspond to that and defines a model file which can optionally include all the referential integrity checks that means that you get an object model that you can work with in your application which is mapped to the database but it actually knows about all the relationships associated within that table so this tool just by talking to the database knows all the relationships the primary key is the foreign keys to one-to-many relationships an incredibly sophisticated model that is being figured out automatically by the tool and this is all work that you do not have to do the tool does it for you this means you can get started writing your application logic and working at the high level object model using the power of the web objects tools thank you very much darkness so you've got your data model so you know what your data is now the next challenge is doing something interesting with it well bits provides a couple of different ways that you can really take advantage of that one is we handle a lot of hard work of page generation with web objects we try to really separate out the information needed for dinner eight a page into three key pieces the HTML template the business logic and the enterprise object containing the data persistence and we use a technology called web components to really encapsulate these things while isolating the HTML templates and the logic from the data the web component architecture manages all the hard work of doing HTML request response to manage the sessions the users the security all the things that become very complicated when you're doing three-tier web applications this technology is also very flexible and can be used to generate HTML XML or even smile for multimedia applications and also makes it very easy to embed rich client-side scripting and other controls into your data templates without having to corrupt your business logic or your database with any of that information it also has the ability to be fully multilingual so you can create multilingual sites using web objects technology so we're very excitable the potential this offers to streamline page generation and make it easier for people to keep really rich visually compelling websites very quickly and easily so demonstrate that I'm inviting up Tom Naughton from the wool bobis engineering team Tom push to demo please [Applause] there's a lot of different ways that you can create well obviously applications from scratch or using various tools and assistance we're gonna create a type of application known as a display group application very common way to view a database is to look at a certain field and then find other tables or fields that are related to that piece of information so we'll walk through the assistant here and we can add frameworks in this case we'll go ahead and add a model into the database this is the model that can be created the way that we created our isn't just a few minutes and this has information about the the database and the relationships and all the information about the databases in the model this model can be changed to support an oracle database to support different entities or schemas and the application doesn't know the difference well look at the movies as our main entity in the data model and we'll choose a display group where we have a selected record which then shows matching records this creates a default web component that has that information and we just go through and select some of the key information like what information we want to support like the title the category the rating we can also traverse relationships for things like the studio name so studio is a link to another table that we're then able to see as part of this same page all the traversals handle automatically for you by web objects moving along we can choose a field for the hyperlink to report the list of records that are matched we'll use the title again and we'll go ahead and query on the title as well so we're going just finish and this will go ahead and create just a very simple web component so let's go into the web components directory and actually see the components that's created we just double-click on the the wou file that should launch web objects builder and maybe you can maximize that a little bit larger so you can see it creates some interesting elements including a repeating element within the area and these are just very simple tags added into an HTML file that say when you get to this tag instead of just returning HTML talk to a web of its component and return dynamic data okay so a very simple file a very simple XML HTML file a very little piece of Java code and you can actually go and run this application and when you do we really it launches will obvious application it will actually be smart enough to launch your browser of choice and bring up the orell for your web application and will be turning along compiling Java on Mac os10 taking a badge of the project builder first time we're launching an explorer here and you see we open up in seconds a full complete sophisticated web application go ahead and type in some data and go ahead and select an entry and it's there so we have a full sophisticated web application created from scratch using web objects in a matter of seconds thank you very much tom and these are full-featured applications you can edit browse delete add rows etc and you can easily take the simple application and customize it these are things that usually take a couple of weeks to get up to speed to get your data model to get your page generation you get your session management all taken care of web objects does the hard work for you it does all using frameworks rather than generated code for the bulk of the logic that's going on because it's framework based you know it's our code that we have built that we have tested that is reused across all your applications so you don't have this huge massive generated code to maintain as you sometimes get with other development environments the other great thing about this because it uses frameworks we can substitute in other frameworks for the viewing of your data and one particular way to do this is using rich desktop applications HTML is great for a lot of browsing and for the greatest possible reach but often you want to have a much Richard to highly interactive user experience which has client-side caching for great responsiveness very live active controls and very to see them complex widgets so do that we've tried a number of tools for integrating both Java and cocoa technology with web objects 5 and to demonstrate that I'd like to amount up Ron loose song from low Bobby was engineering Ron LaRon will get rid of the browser because he doesn't need that for his kind of apps and we'll go in to the project builder again the heart of the Mac os10 development experience we will create a cocoa application and we'll just going crazy at the project using project builder and again the important thing is choosing the model the model defines the data access and persistence of your application and provides the strong typing that you can use to define the other heuristics so we'll create a fairly simple table here and I using cocoa and we just specify the entity that we want to look at as well as some of the key attributes and again we can use the model to go ahead and traverse different entities and relationships to walk through the data model and then add a few forms in there for a more richer and complicated user interface and again add a query feel for what we want to look at and that brings us in a project builder instead of a web component we now have resources in particular interface builder file or an in and the nib uses the technology known as a oh palette which provides the ability to drag and drop connections so if you bring up like a connection inspector you can see how like one of the tables those things are actually those forms are actually connected into the database using the connection mechanism and interface builder no troubles okay and you clean that up the nib file the way you wanted it right okay so Ron rearrange submit budgets in the nib file and we go ahead and build the application and it's compiling the Java down to jar files wrapping it in a shell application conforming to the Mac os10 Packaging guidelines you get a nice full double clickable application and it'll automatically launch it for you and we have live in Java a complete cocoa application created using web objects and enterprise objects let's fall live very quick series you don't have to deal with page refreshes or page resizing everything just works great thank you very much Ron those are three of the really key powerful advantages in web objects and move objects five in particular the other thing a scalable Java deployment we have a nice compliant monitor application that you can use to browse all the different web objects application servers on your network managed instances controls and with hoja boosters really easy to add new machines and extend the reach of your application we support multiple instances multiple threads multiple processors all running on one or multiple machines to make it really to create very sophisticated and powerful web applications the other thing that's really exciting about this that I wanted to just talk to you about a lot of people were concerned when they heard about the move to Java wondering about wasn't Java slow won't it hurt performance so we've got some very interesting results back as we've been testing performance we did a simple test where we insert C search for and delete three movies the basic database access loop that caused common in these kinds of applications we ran it for basically three server days six machines three runs four or as each the rules were very impressive on Mac OS 10 server version 10 testing it against four or five one we found that we were 22% faster than we were with what was four or five one on Windows 2000 Pro we were over 50% faster than we were and of course you think ok well that's for certain platforms what do I want to do some really heavy-duty deployment on Solaris with Solaris who are 187 percent faster so I mean there's several just things you can take away from this obviously every application is different every application has its own performance characteristics this is a very simple test but it's the test that we've been using to monitor the performance of our runtime and one of the things thing this tells you is the Objective C stack was highly optimized on Mac OS 10 it's been very optimized on Mac OS 10 and the Java stack has also been optimized on Mac OS 10 and you can see that we got a benefit even just using Java versus a highly tuned objective-c stack on other platforms such as Solaris where there's a lot of people working on the Java stack and relatively few people work in the objective-c stack performance is even more impressive so this is the fact that we're able to take advantage of all the work that all the industry is doing on Java performance on their database drivers on the runtime tack on the threading model makes it very easy to deliver very powerful scalable java applications using with objects 5 but last but certainly not least is the fantastic suite of tools to make we love it's such a joy to use I mean most people think of web application developers just incredibly tedious painful grungy thing with whoa ba because it's fun I mean how many you are addicted to what about its development you know I mean those of you using for a while there's a sense of looks like if I can't I mean some of you may know my history I started out doing a next step development involves in college and when I graduated I end up going to management consulting because I could not use the tools that I was used to using on my desktop there's no point in being a programmer and with Apple acquiring next and the web objects technology and making it available in mainstream in the mass market you know in gorgeous places like the Apple retail stores you know there's a chance for this technology to really become mainstream and it actually gets fun to program again I'm very excited as you probably guessed so there's 5 key technologies that are part of web objects in the application tool space web objects builder for HTML layout and design interface builder for laying out Java and cocoa applications the project builder of course the heart of our development experience the fantastic enterprise object modeling tool and of course rule editor some people may not be as familiar with that which is used for the directed Java and a client and director web applications to manage these automatically generated applications and there's really four key advantages we're stressing to people as we go and talk to the press talk to analysts talk to customers well why they really should want to consider web objects the first one is rapid time to market web objects is really designed to support very sophisticated modular development in fact you can build things in parallel with very good isolation where the frameworks do the hard work for you of application design and partitioning as well as some of the really painful grunt work of session management page generation and data access as well as a really comprehensive suite of smart tools to streamline the way you build your application this is really a dream environment for a lot of people who don't really believe the web government can be this easy and can be this fast and I've had talking to someone at lunch today within a business an industry where you know they have projects that are you know six months long and they can't afford to spend six months doing the design of their application server they want something we can turn on an application because we're bustin tested in three months so they get their job done that much quicker and this is the tool for people like that Edition there are the very powerful assistance that allow you to create fully functional prototypes in just seconds using the director web and director Java client functionality Kyle you browse your database access your data from anywhere and then iterate on the important pieces to create more sophisticated and complicated web applications the second one is quality a lot of people you know they rush things to mark and they have to sacrifice quality with web objects we try to reduce the problems there one is that we have very mature set of frameworks again well web excite is the first for the version entirely in Java but a lot of the technology has been part of Java client web objects for several generations and the frameworks themselves designed by people who really understand what objects who understand object technology and object orientation and are able to really design things that simplify the way that you develop your application and be able to refine that over the five generations in five years that wall ovens has been in existence also the way to get around Murphy's Law is to fewer things that can go wrong because we all know that anything that can go wrong will but if you're running a small amount of application specific code the number of unique things that can go wrong with your application it's much smaller and if you're much more likely to get a fully functional application much quicker and because the same frameworks or levers by so many people over so much time the much greater ability to ensure the quality of those things well babak's really tries hard to isolate pieces of the application one from another your data access your HTML your biz logic are all isolated from one another when you see the kind of programming models where you have web designers working on pages which have scripting code embedded inside the webpage which talk directly to a database that means if you're you know beautiful creative graphic designer put the wrong comma in their code they could corrupt your corporate database this is not a good idea we want people to understand the importance of a properly architect in their applications to ensure scalability and security of your application things like Java client wear with web objects you'd have three-tiered Java clients where the sensitive code is on the server rather than on the client so if someone D compiles your Java client they don't have access to all your sensitive business logic where they can talk directly to your data center very powerful partitioning technologies to really improve the security and reliability of your application and last but certainly not least having all the referential integrity constraints embedded declaratively in the data model I mean we all know what it's like to work on a long project and the wee hours of the morning trying to beat a deadline and it's very hard to make sure that you member all the little things that are the dependencies between different pieces of your database in your application and well babak's handles all the hard work remembering those tedious details for you to make sure your data stays safe no matter how tired you may be and certainly the big thing for Bob because five is full accessibility to Java web objects runs pretty much anywhere with Java to platform standard edition 1.3 obviously in order to be qualified in support you need your own one of the configurations we've actually tested it against such as Solaris 2 8 Windows 2000 or Mac OS 10 server but the fact that Sun Java makes it much easier to run on a bunch of different places makes it more familiar to Java programmers and also makes it easy to interoperate with other Java solutions there are people who started working with the beta or early releases of web objects can grade it in with servlets or egb containers or other Java technologies out there web services etc one of the more exciting things is we integrate the latest xerxes xml parser from the Apache Software Foundation based on some very important IBM technology and allows you to import an export XML data into your web objects application integrated into your enterprise object models you make it very easy for you to create things like web services create things like XML soap on top of web objects there's some very exciting things we've done with web objects people are doing with Mobe objects today we just made them more things that we expect to be able to do with 12 objects five with the Java cropper ability and we're looking at some really interesting technologies like enterprise javabeans and web services and to make it even easier for you to create those kinds of great solutions with web objects but even today because of the power of Java because you can run on standard Java virtual machines it is very easy for you today to go out and integrate these things with Sanders based technologies wherever you need to to get your job done in the environments that you're working in your networks and Lassen this can't be stressed enough avi mentioned this in the keynote will obviously proven solution some of the best brands in the internet have deployed very sophisticated mission-critical web applications using web objects because whether its customers doing consumer oriented websites higher education sites like the University of Michigan portal creative solutions like Adobe in scope or the BBC News site or business solutions like the MCI Worldcom or ATT Wireless billing solutions these are ministering critical applications serving you know many customers and of course that doesn't even mention some of the incredible Apple solutions available like the Apple Store and up and I tools that service millions of our customers of course the greatest thing about Baba big spies especially for those of you like me you've been around for a while is that it's available today here it's shipping feel free to applaud as you know Apple decide this was just way too powerful a technology to just leave in the hands of a few very large corporations with deep pockets so we've priced it at $6.99 we put it in retail outlets like the Apple Store so you can walk down to Glendale and reclaim Virginia or soon any of the other 25 Apple stores and pick up a copy of web objects start building sophisticated enterprise scale web applications today it's available worldwide via the Apple Store and authorized resellers there's evaluation copies available how many of you have already installed your your developer tools CD you got on your backpack okay some of you have started for those of you didn't notice the developer key that's associated with it expires at the end of September and that is located in the PDF file at the top level there so make sure you read through the readme and all of you read through the readme before you install but in case you don't be sure to do it this time so you can get the license key that you'll need in order to install web object I'm also pleased to announce that we have it we will be providing very steep discounts to ADC members Premium ambos will get well objects five for free select members will be able to purchase it for 399 almost half the price we think this is fantastic than technology we want to get it out to all the developers we are putting the other thing which isn't mentioned here is that well box 5 deployment the full unlimited deployment it will be available as part of Mac OS 10 server version 10 so if you buy Mac OS 10 server version 10 you can deploy your web ABBA's application for free as part of that it's very high performance Java 2 implementation robotics five will be available as a single product it'll be a single box containing the developer tools for both Mac OS 10 and Windows 2000 as well as deployments for Mac OS 10 server Windows 2000 and for UNIX a single box if you buy from anywhere has all the pieces you need to develop applications on the leading desktop application operating systems as well as deploy on virtually any Java platform so that's the product of web objects 5 of course there's more to it than that just to give you a quick roadmap of course what was 4 or 5 was the version released last year really bringing it to Mac OS 10 server the last release of the world objects 4 or 5 train 4 or 5 1 was released in May which supports objective-c applications on Mac OS 10 provides a number of important bug fixes for other environments and web objects 5 of course was released this week well bones for five will be end-of-life in order to support what works 5 will be in the channel blue objects 4 or 5 1 will continue to be available via phone order from the Apple Store for quite some time to come to enable our legacy customers in the transition we definitely wanna see all of you moving to Java this is the future of database development on the Internet and we're working very closely to make sure that we have a good transition story for our customers the Java converter provided in both 451 and web objects 5 will convert your Java code as well as to having a lot of grunt work of objective-c to Java translation obviously the semantic differences which require some effort a 1 4 5 1 is also available for those who have existing applications whether those are will bobby's applications or legacy cocoa EOF applications to be able you to run those applications on Mac OS 10 however I do want to stress the future of web objects and of database development on Mac OS 10 is Java at that point and that's all I had to say about the product at this point I'd like to welcome welcome up matt raphson of the documentation manager protecting our publications to share a few words about the documentation strategy Raleigh [Applause] thanks Ernie so web objects is a pretty large and complex product it makes it really easy to do a lot of things but it also lets you do a lot of different things and we have documentation to cover all these different areas of the product there's reference documentation for the API is in multiple different frameworks some of which you use every day some of which you might only use when you're doing some very specialized type of custom configuration there's tutorial and overview information to get you started so that you can get a nice gentle introduction to the product and figure out how do I approach this there is deployment information which is something that's sort of unique to what objects because it is not only a sophisticated development environment but it also has a very sophisticated deployment story where you're going to integrate multiple different servers potentially several machines running different instances of your application dynamic load-balancing talking to different web servers that may be running on completely different operating systems and there's a lot of Technology built into web objects to help you get that done and then we also have information about specific focused tasks we've got a Salesforce that has been working with large customers and also small customers for a long time they've encountered specific scenarios that seem to come up again and again everybody wants to do this one thing and if only it were described you know in just this way we could in fact get it done quickly so those are available as part of the documentation that's online on your CDs gets installed on the system when you install the developer tools you can also find that type of information in the tech notes from the website developer.apple.com now as part of Apple rolling this out to a wider audience tutorial and introductory information has been really important and we know that people like to access things online for quick access but they don't necessarily like to read lots of documentation online you know sitting down and reading through a 30 page PDF is about as much as I can handle at least on a screen will let alone a 200 page book that is going to give me a complete overview so technical publications has a deal with fat brain to publish documentation online and also make it available print on demand from fat brain so the first book for web objects that we released in this is called inside web objects and it came out this past winter I believe we released it in January it is an overview of web objects 5 gives you information about what are some of the new technologies in here what are the four major development approaches that I might take when I'm looking at web objects and and my problem and whatever I want to solve and gives you some guidance as to what are the trade-offs what are some of the performance implications of taking one approach or another what are some of the flexibilities that I might get in from a very high level why should I choose one or the other of these different approaches very shortly we will have another book available from fat brain called inside web objects discovering web objects for HTML so this is the first of what is going to be a series of books examining the different approaches to development on web objects taking you through a fairly complex tutorial application teaching as you go so that you can figure out exactly how do I write a web objects application that presents a nice HTML interface to users through a standard browser that is highly scalable available and gives them access to all the information they need from your database so look for that on our website coming very shortly and more coming up in the next six months or mine all right thank you very much Raleigh Raleigh's had an amazing job because he's had to basically completely new versions of fairly mature applications coming out both Mac os10 M of objects v in the space of about two months and having to the CRISPR one who's used to the older versions that wanted to have complete comprehensive information about everything on day one the way they're used to after ten years of development in other places so he's got a major challenge we're staffing up very hard to try and really keep up with the demand for information about this and it's concealed a while for us to catch up with all the great work our engineers have done we're very excited about the plan we have in place to really try and address that and get this information more out to you sooner and more comprehensively of course having information is great having people is even better we're approached have some of the best people in the business working with Apple professional services and this point I'd like to welcome up Tim Johnson and James Dempsey from Apple I services hi James and I are gonna take a few minutes to talk about apply services and what we've been up to about a year ago we are chartered with with delivering professional services around Apple and Apple's technology web objects being a fundamental cornerstone to that that plan we also offer integration services around Mac OS 10 and Mac OS 10 Networks technical training which is really what James is going to spend a lot some time on as well as technical support on the consulting side we offer a full range of professional services from project management to software development to integration migration planning with web objects and third-party solutions I just want to throw out some some synergies that you might might think about for example web objects could be used to develop applications to help manage Mac OS 10 networks and the information in directory services like LDAP to help manage that so there's a lot of a lot of exciting things that can be done around Apple technologies and how they can be leveraged together we continue to offer technical support for web object development and deployment and we offer that in two levels the silver and gold we do this through support personnel who are not only expert in their field they also strive to deliver that information in a personalized fashion with the goal of delivering of establishing a relationship between Apple and you and as you would expect with any profession any technical support organization they deliver that in a timely and quick fashion thanks Tim um so I wanted to talk just a little bit about technical training in Apple I services as Tim mentioned last year we were given the task to bring what has historically been in the three years I've been with the department a web objects training organization and deal more with all of the core technologies of Apple Computer we've been very very busy and next four weeks we are going to be rolling one a week for brand new or revised courses we are going to be revising webobjects development one and two those will be shipping in about two weeks and we are also working on revising web objects deployment for five in addition we are very happy to announce today two new system administration courses for Mac OS 10 Mac OS 10 server as well as certification programs around that finally we are also currently shipping a cocoa development course that we've been working very hard on that we've also been using internally to train over 200 of Apple's own software engineers I guess the final thing I'd like to say is that in your bag you that you receive today when you registered you'll find a card that entitles you to 25% off any of our developer training courses that is a deal that is good as long as you sign up for the training while you are here at the show by visiting our booth after the show it's a 10% discount that lasts for a few months the details are in the fine print on the card so we're very very excited about being able to support web objects 5 with training that's been time-tested over years revising it updating it for the new Java pure Java version of web objects and thank you very much just to just to throw out for more information you can go to our website at apple.com slash I services but again I would encourage you to visit the exhibit fair where you can get the extra discount on the the training and addition answer any questions thanks a lot all right thank you so as I mentioned before we have a little surprise for you one of the questions that people have asked is why is Apple doing web objects and there's a couple of myths that one is that it's just so cool how could we not but but the other thing is that you know as you heard this morning we are now the largest reseller of UNIX systems the people who build the Internet run on UNIX and we are committed to making we have sure that we can really live up to that legacy I come from a long time using BSD for - way back in the UNIX community I'm a card-carrying usenix member I really like the culture of the community of UNIX and the power and the mindset I've always been sort of appalled by the graphical interfaces that we've had in the UNIX world which is why I fell in love with next step and open step and so forth and the great thing about Mac OS 10 we really bring the power of UNIX with the simplicity of the Mac and we're really able to really try and marry some of these things and one of my goals in development platforms is truly make Mac OS 10 the best platform for web development and so we're really trying very hard to make sure that we work with the Java the UNIX the web objects the other technologies we have truly create a very powerful and compelling solution for UNIX and Java developers doing web development as well as helping all of you people who've been maybe involved with the web objects or the Apple community for years really take advantage of some of the great things available in web development we have a lot of sessions going on this week starting with the technical overview this is sort of this the real broad brush of the wallops community some of the key features to really start digging into the technology and how to start building stuff there's the overview we're also trying to make sure that we allow you to overlap with some of the key sessions from the Mac os10 track like the project builder introduction to allow you to understand the tools that you're using on Mac OS 10 there's sort of a break point the first couple of days are really folk on introductions to web objects and the key technologies for all the people who are new to the community for some of the old hands who've been through this a couple of times you might want to start checking some of the advanced sessions available later on in the week starting around Wednesday afternoon so we look at make up is something in here for everyone there's a lot of content in here robotics team not only shipped a product at developer conference they shipped 17 sessions in partnership with ice services which is just a fantastic job I want to give them another round of appreciation for all the work that went into that and of course although we all believe that while our x5 is wonderful and it's a great way to deliver apps it's still a work in progress we know there's gonna be a few things that we miss that may have annoyed you or certain things that you want to do with this product we may not have considered and we want to hear that I'm here Bob Fraser my product manager is here we are here to listen to you to understand what it is you need what you want to do with web objects how we can make your life better how we can help you get web objects and even more places how I can really help make Mac OS 10 the best platform for web development hope we can make Mac OS 10 server the best platform for deploying rich Internet content using web objects Apache and QuickTime streaming that's what we're here for if you don't catch us during the week you can catch the feedback forum and lend us your ears so for more information we have a couple of different places to go actually a lot of different places to go the web objects at Apple comm is the best single email address to use that'll go to both marketing engine engineering to make sure that we track feedback and information that you may have for us for things that may require code snippets or more lengthy examples than we can jot down it's a great place to send us information about what you need for I services for consulting integration training and support there's an 800 number as well as websites there's several different websites there's an Apple comm web objects page which some recently updated by Bob to cover all the great new features in with objects 5 there's a developer.apple.com website which will be updated soon to cover developer resources for web objects there's the eye services website there's also an apple support site maintained by Robert and his team which has discussion boards tech info library articles lists of updates and other information we've also just recently created a web object announce mailing lists which I need to go finish and send an email out to so as I get out of here to probably people information about new releases of web objects as well other important information affecting the web objects community you