[news.eclipse.technology.alf] Presentations on ALF from EclipseCon 2008

["Brian Carroll" <bcarroll@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At EclipseCon 2008 Brian Carroll gave three short talks describes three 
different facets of the ALF project:

1. Coordinating Software Development with the Eclipse Application Lifecycle 
Framework  provided an overview of ALF, the problems it solves and why it 
was built.  The slides are available at:
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/sub/attachments/Coordinating_Software_Development_with_the_Eclipse_Application_Lifecycle_Framework.pdf

2. ALF Single SignOn - A Framework for Tool Integration provided a 
description of the ALF Single SignOn components.  ALF SSO was presented 
within the context of current trends in the security industry, such as 
factoring out critical security code from the business application logic, 
and the growing adoption of SAML Assertions.  The slides are available at:
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/sub/attachments/ALF_Single_SignOn_8211_A_Framework_for_Tool_Integration.pdf

3. Mashup the development process with ALF. ALF is a framework for 
application integration.  It was originally targeted at integrating 
development tools, but much of the framework is generic and applicable to 
any domain.  Mashups are a hot topic and the presentation describes how the 
components of ALF provide the framework for a commercial mashup tool: Serena 
Business Mashups.  With less internal technical detail than the first two 
talks, this presentation show how ALF can be incorporated to provide 
critical capabilites for mashups.
The slides are available at:
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/sub/attachments/Mashup_the_development_process_with_ALF.pdf