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WebSphere sMash/ Project Zero Development Review

June 05, 2009

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WebSphere sMash Development Review – June 5, 2009 2

Expectations

We will be presenting a number of new features/functions under development at projectzero.org

We are looking for your feedback on whether we got it right, and what needs to change or be improved.

Notes:

– Feedback/recommendations received in this review will be incorporated into the planning and prioritization of future enhancements

– IBM does not guarantee that feedback and recommendations will be delivered in the WebSphere sMash product.

– You agree that by providing IBM feedback/recommendations, you grant IBM an unrestricted license to use the feedback and recommendations as IBM it sees fit with no accounting.

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Agenda

Introduction Assemble flow Features

– ZRM form + Assemble flow integration

– PHP support in Assemble flow

– Enhanced security and notification support on webUI activity PHP Features:

– Performance

– Supported PHP Applications

– Integration and re-use of existing assets

– Support for Eclipse PDT 2.0 Core Features:

– Platform support

– Amazon EC2

– Enhancements to AppBuilder

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What is sMash?

IBM WebSphere® sMash is a platform for developing and running agile Web applications using scripting languages and Web 2.0 technologies such as RESTful Web services, JavaScript Object Notation, and Atom and RSS feeds. It supports the Groovy language, familiar to Java programmers, and PHP for access to thousands of PHP applications and libraries,and the huge PHP developer community.

IBM WebSphere sMash is focused on significant improvement in time-to-value for Situational Applications and Mashups. Partners and community have found that by combining PHP applications and libraries with new code written in PHP or Groovy for the IBM WebSphere sMash platform, they can achieve significant reduction in development time for Situational Applications and Mashups.

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Travel Request Demo - Simplify the Collaboration Application with Assemble Flow and ZRM Forms

Highlights• Using Assemble flow for simple collaboration• Using ZRM form for human interaction in flow application• Support PHP within Assemble flow• Enhancement on security and notification

Scenario of the travel request demo An employee submits a travel request for approval His manager will be notified by email to approve the request After approval, the result will be sent back to the employee

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PHP Features

PHP team user stories:

– Performance

– Supported PHP Applications

– Integration and re-use of existing assets

– Support for Eclipse PDT 2.0

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PHP Application Performance

Changes to enhance throughput performance of PHP applications

– The most helpful change was to compile PHP script to Java bytecode which uses Java local variables where possible

– We now match the throughput of SugarCRM on a standard install of PHP.NET

– Many of our microbenchmark tests now show several times better performance than a standard PHP.net installation

Field enablement of performance

– Ensured optimisations are safe and correct in the general case

– Make optimal default settings

– Document deployment recommendations

• http://www.projectzero.org/zero/lemans/latest/docs/zero.devguide.doc/zero.management.zso/Deployment.html

– Ensure that our throughput tests use only defaults or documented recommendations

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PHP Throughput Testing with SugarCRM

PHP.NET can service 192 clients with a 2000ms response time on this configuration

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Forums

CRM

wiki

Desktop Virtualisation

Ajax Debugging

Content Management Blogging

FirePHP

PHP Applications That Run On WebSphere sMash

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Integration And Re-use With Existing Assets

Custom flow activities in PHP

– Using and creating custom flow activities with SugarCRM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMQxX7BPtiM)

Enhanced Java bridge

– Demo of connecting to CICS

• Using WebSphere sMash with CICS Transaction Gateway

• (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc39pSHHKIg)

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Eclipse PDT 2.0 – PHP Development On Eclipse

PHP Development Tools

– Available from http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/

Option to use PDT 2.0.1 to develop your WebSphere sMash applications– http://www.projectzero.org/zero/sebring/latest/docs/zero.gettingstarted.doc/

zero.gettingstarted.doc/EclipsePHP.html

– Launch and debug WebSphere sMash PHP applications

Benefits of PDT 2.0.1

– Code assist and navigation performance improvements

– Improved PHP Class and Object Support (type hierarchy, override indicators, type navigation)

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Core Features

Platform support:

– zLinux

– AIX 5.3/6.1

– pLinux Amazon EC2

– Development and production AMIs Enhancements to AppBuilder:

– PHP Debugging (demo)

– iWidget creation and editing (demo)

– Quickstart Guides

• http://www.projectzero.org/wiki/Development/QuickstartMap

– Performance improvements

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Amazon EC2 AMIs

Run WebSphere sMash in Amazon’s cloud

Released both development and production WebSphere sMash AMIs

Use development AMI to create and test sMash applications using remote AppBuilder

Use production AMI to run the finished production version of your sMash app.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/ws-smash/ec2.html

http://www.projectzero.org/blog/index.php/tag/ec2/

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Other AppBuilder Enhancements

PHP Debugging (demo)

iWidget creation and editing (demo)

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Other AppBuilder Enhancements Performance Quickstart guides and key mappings

– http://www.projectzero.org/wiki/Development/QuickstartMap

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Background

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WebSphere sMashAgile development of dynamic Web 2.0 based applications

Introducing WebSphere sMash

• Improves developer productivity and efficiency through the support of dynamic scripting languages (Groovy and PHP) on Java

• Leverages Web 2.0 technologies for service invocation, service composition and data interchange

• Provides visual tools for developers to build and assemble web2.0 applications

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Speed

Simplicity

Agility

Dynamic scripting languages

Templates & Pre-built services

Visual Editors

Assemble style development

Application “is” the server

Clean, short-lived runtime

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WebSphere sMash Tooling

Dynamic Scripting Editor

Visual UI Editor

Visual Flow Editor

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References

WebSphere sMash site http://www.projectzero.org/

WebSphere sMash forums http://www.projectzero.org/forum/

Developers Guide Documentation. http://www.projectzero.org/documentation/

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