Preliminary AGENDA(*)

10th INTERNATIONAL REXX SYMPOSIUM

3-5 May 1999
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.
Sponsored by the Rexx Language Association

The 10th International Rexx Symposium for Developers and Users will be held in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A. on 3-5 May, 1999. The Symposium program provides a focal point for information about Rexx and a venue for technical interchange among members of the Rexx community.

Please register as soon as possible: http://www.rexxla.org/Symposium/nosymreg99.html.

The special "RexxLA-symposium rates" at the symposium hotel are available until April 16th! More information can be obtained at: http://www.rexxla.org/Symposium/nosymann99.html.


 
Sunday, May 2nd, 1999: Hotel Radisson Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, Florida
18:00 - 20:00 Registration, Welcome Reception  


    
Monday, May 3rd, 1999: Hotel Radisson Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, Florida
7:30 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30 Chip Davis Welcome and PTFs (Opening)
8:30 - 10:00 Mike F. Cowlishaw Decimal Arithmetic in Rexx and Java
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Brian Marks An Update on Compact Rexx
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Kurt Märker Handling of Dates with REXX and Object REXX
14:00 - 15:00 Chip Davis Objectivity: Overcoming OOP Anxiety
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 Rony G. Flatscher Employing Object Rexx for Teaching MBA Students the OO-paradigm
16:15 - 17:00 Mike F. Cowlishaw Demo: New Things in NetRexx
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner & Board Meeting


    
Tuesday, May 4th, 1999: Hotel Radisson Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, Florida
7:30 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 Nash R. Radovanovic Using Rexx to Publish Mainframe Reports to the Web
9:00 - 10:00 Mick Trujillo MAX/REXX
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Mark Hessling Rexx and Rexx Extensions in a Heterogeneous Environment
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Kurt Märker Bulk Data Transfer in Network Applications using FTP Services of Object REXX
14:00 - 15:00 Kurt Märker Dynamic HTML with Object Rexx
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 David W. Ashley Rexx/Object Rexx as an ICAPI Extension
16:15 - 17:00 Tom Brawn The RexxLA website
18:00 - 19:00 Annual Meeting
19:00 - 22:00 RexxLA Banquet


 
Wednesday, May 5th, 1999: Hotel Radisson Riverwalk, 1515 Prudential Drive, Jacksonville, Florida
7:30 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 9:00 Tom Brawn Using NetRexx to write your Host Access Applications
9:00 - 10:00 Ian M. Collier Introducing intelligible scripting on Linux
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Christian Michel REXX Utilities for your Windows PC
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Christian Michel Object REXX for Windows News: Windows Scripting and GUI Extensions
14:00 - 15:00 Charles R. Berg ActiveREXX - The Next Generation REXX for Windows 2000
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 James G. Hasslacher Jr. Managing Development with Rexx
16:15 - 16:30 Chip Davis Closing


(*) Subject to change.

Rexx Language Association at http://www.rexxla.org:

Send questions about the Rexx Symposium or the Rexx Language Association to info@rexxla.org


Symposium Committee: Chip Davis, Rony G. Flatscher (Chair), Mark Hessling, John J. Urbaniak, Gwen L. Veneskey, David Wells.

Date: 1999-04-06b.