July 2007
Welcome to the next edition of "Extra from Exadel". Our online newsletter provides the open source community with news about our products, industry trends, and upcoming events.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
EXADEL PLUGINS NOW OPENSOURCED
JBoss releases JBoss Tools, Eclipse plugins including Exadel
by Joseph Ottinger, TheServerSide.com
"JBoss has put JBoss Tools in their source code repositories, a set of Eclipse Plugins including the Exadel Studio product, Ajax4JSF, and RichFaces (donated to JBoss in March by Exadel), as well as Hibernate Tools, JBoss jBPM Tools, Drools IDE, JBoss Application Server Tools, and JBoss Seam Tools.
Key features of the Exadel plug-ins include:
- Two-way visual (WYSIWYG) and source editing of JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Facelets pages;
- Support for JBoss Ajaxjsf, JBoss RichFaces, and JBoss Seam components;
- Drag and drop capabilities between project navigator, component pallet, and Visual Page Editor windows;
- Extended code assist for JSF and Seam projects;
- Support for easily adding Ajax capabilities to projects using JBoss RichFaces and Ajax4JSF using a palette and code assist.
This is the first step toward delivering Red Hat Developer Studio, an open source integrated development environment (IDE), later this summer."
The whole article is available here.
IN THE NEWS:
OFFSHORING 2.0: THE POST-INDIA MARKET
by Deborah Perelman, July 5, 2007
In her article dedicated to new offshore locations, Deborah Perelman discusses why India will no longer be the main offshoring center.
"Salary inflation is largely to blame for the change in course. When the outsourcing boom took off in 2004, the salaries of software engineers were one quarter of what San Francisco-area computer engineers made, making very clear the cost savings of offshoring.
But in the years since, Indian salaries have soared - in several cases to 75 percent of U.S. levels - and some in Silicon Valley have begun to sour on sending jobs to India.
However, it wasn't only salary inflation that has caused many technology firms to pull their labor out of offshore centers; it was the hidden cost they hadn't anticipated such as geographic and time gaps, the need for more U.S. managers to oversee the outsourced relationships and the significant costs associated with pulling out."
You can find out what the predicted offshore locations are here.
OUTSOURCING AS A TOOL FOR CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION
Companies have turned to outsourcing and offshoring in the past out of necessity. As the hybrid onshore/offshore model for outsourcing becomes more established, business leaders are realizing how outsourcing can become a positive enabler for corporate transformation.
The best source for the "transformational outsourcing" concept is in this Business Week article.
TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE
INTRODUCTION TO RED HAT DEVELOPER STUDIO
View the slide deck from 5/31/07 Red Hat Developer Studio presentation at JBoss Webinar by Max Katz.
EVENTS
REAL-WORLD JAVA SEMINAR 2007
August 13, 2007, New York, NY
This single-day, multi-track seminar will be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 13. This is the largest Java developer event on the East Coast. The seminar features a business track as well as two technical tracks. All attendees will have full access to all sessions at the event, so attendees can either stay with one track or pick and choose specific sessions.
The Real-World Java Seminar, featuring more than 30 sessions, is packed with technical presentations delivered by Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow participants to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects they are working on now. Attendees can then use what they take away from the seminar as a roadmap for their further development as Java professionals.
To register for the seminar click here.
MAX KATZ TO SPEAK AT LOS ANGELES JAVA USER GROUP SESSION
October 2, 2007, Los Angeles, CA
Max Katz, Exadel's Senior Systems Engineer, will speak at the Los Angeles Java User Group meeting on October 2, 2007. The topic of his discussion will be JSF and AJAX.
ECLIPSE WORLD 2007: THE ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
November 6-8, 2007, Reston, VA
Make time on your schedule to attend the 2007 EclipseWorld, which will be hosted from November 6th through November 8th in Reston, Virginia. Exadel's Max Katz will be teaching the following classes at the conference, "Developing Rich Internet Applications With JSF and AJAX" and "Using Eclipse to Build Web 2.0 Applications With JSF, Seam and AJAX." We look forward to seeing you there.
For more information on this conference please go to www.eclipseworld.net
COMMUNITY
JOIN THE EXADEL TEAM
Exadel is a growing company with many current opportunities for software developers (particularly those with JSF experience). If you're interested, submit your resume to jobs@exadel.com
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & FEEDBACK
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