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Open Source Software is commonly understood as free and easy to access commodity. But we see an increasing trend in vertical industries such as banking, insurance and systems engineering to use the Open Source community paradigm to collaboratively develop, maintain and distribute software.

In the talk, we want to use the Eclipse Open Source project as an example to describe how Open Source Foundations, licenses and governance models and an open architecture can support these groups and consortia. We will also give
a brief overview over the development and IP processes that the Eclipse Foundation has put into place to make it easier for enterprises to capture the value provided
by the Eclipse Open Source Project.

Service-Oriented Architecture is an approach to developing complexdistributed software projects that can be of real help to businesseswith medium and large scale IT requirements as they try to reduceup-front costs of developing for growth.

With a number of real-world examples and case studies, this talk isintended to introduce SOA and to show that judicious application of its tenets brings real value to the process of developing systems.

Last year, Sun announced a new group of technologies called JavaFX. The idea behind this was to take the strengths of the Java platform as a robust, secure environment and deliver exciting new ways for developers to quickly and easily create and deploy visually appealiing internet
applications.

Since then a lot of work has been done culminating in the launch of the preview release of the JavaFX SDK at the end of July.

This session will look at what JavaFX really is, the new compiler and tools available in the SDK and how to get started building applications.
We'll also look at the forthcoming Java SE 6 update 10 release of the JDK and JRE which includes some exciting new developments for simplifying the deployment of the Java environment to large numbers of
desktops.