JA-SIG Update Dan Oberst, Princeton University w/apologies to Carl Jacobson, U of Delaware & Dave Koehler, Princeton University

“In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” … Gerard Erasmus

JA-SIG §The Java in Administration Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) is an independent organization designed to increase the flow of information between educational institutions and companies involved in the development of administrative applications using Java technology.

JA-SIG Goals:  Nurture communication of best practices, new technologies, and innovative methodologies and projects related to Java  Increase peer review, collaboration, and group discussion related to institution-developed Java administrative applications  Broaden Java technology cross-fertilization between firms and schools on both a functional and geographic basis

David Koehler Chair, JA-SIG Steering Committee: l Today, with the benefit of object oriented technology and Java, we have a great opportunity in higher education to do things better as colleagues. l The purpose of JA-SIG is, first, to share our experiences as we build applications with Java, and second, to develop a common infrastructure upon which we can build shareable components. We welcome the participation of both educational institutions and commercial enterprises in this organization. We all need to apply leading edge technologies to administrative applications to address the needs of our institutions in the future.

JA-SIG Member Institutions: §Andrews University §Arizona State University §BC Institute of Technology §Boston College §Brown University §Buxton Software Solutions §California Polytechnic State University §CampusFirst §Columbia University §Cornell University §Dartmouth University §Harvey Mudd College §Hong Kong Institute of Education §Hong Kong Polytechnic University §Informatics Holdings §Interactive Business Solutions §Kwantlen University College §Lawrence Public Schools Contact §LegacyJ §Manukau Institute of Technology §Massachusetts Institute of Technology §NCompass Systems, Inc §NCS Education & Software Division §Northwestern University §Penn State University §Pivotal Networks §PricewaterhouseCoopers §Princeton University §Rider University §SCT Corp §Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology §Student Online §Sun Microsystems §Syracuse University §University of British Columbia §University of California, San Diego §University of California, Santa Barbara §University of Central Florida §University of Chicago §University of Colorado §University of Delaware §University of Hawaii §University of Maryland at College Park §University of Minnesota §University of Pittsburgh §University of Texas at Austin §University of Umea §University of Utah §University of Wales §University of Washington §Vancouver Community College §Villanova University §Wheeling Jesuit University §Wright State University §Yale University

Two-Tier Model §

Three-Tier Model

Java Avantages for Admin Apps:  Openness and ease of access  Easy-to-use interface  Dynamic, reusable software  Centralized maintenance and thin clients  Merging of distributed data  Leveraging legacy hardware and databases  Redirecting restrictive funds away from fat client spiral and toward solid information infrastructure

§Listing of Java applications and objects available for sharing among institutions of higher education Clearinghouse Project

Portal Framework Project  JA-SIG Portal: free, sharable portal for higher-education. §Open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE §Collaborative development project §Effort shared among JA-SIG members §Reference Implementation by IBS

Java Portal Meetings § Brown 1/12/00 § Princeton 2/15/00 - 2/16/00  Delaware 3/20/00 - 3/24/00

Requirements Specifications §Required To Do List §Feature Set §Object Model §Data Model §Specification

2nd conference of the JA-SIG §Monterey Marriott §Monterey, CA §Welcome reception evening of July 9 §July 10-11, 2000

For More Information § § "Carl Jacobson"