| Monday | Speaker | Description of Session | 8:00 | Registration | 9:00 | Chip Davis | Welcoming Remarks | 9:15 | Dave Both | Use of Rexx and VX-Rexx programs to automate and simplify LAN administration | 10:15 | Break | 10:30 | Brian Marks | Compact Rexx -This presentation will report on progress,
along with diversions into history and into garbage
collection questions involving an experimental project. | 12:00 | Lunch | 1:30 | Mike Cowlishaw | NetRexx News and Overview | 2:30 | Kurt Maerker | NetCentric Programming with Object Rexx Using TCP/IP Sockets for Heterogeneous System Platforms | 3:30 | Break | 3:45 | Tom Brawn | Using NetRexx with Host On-Demand | 4:30 | MicroEdge | Demo of Visual SlickEdit which has Rexx syntax -assist features | 5:00 | Closing | Tuesday | Speaker | Description of Session | 8:00 | Registration | 9:00 | Ingo Holder | Producing graphical user interfaces with Object Rexx. | 10:00 | Break | 10:15 | Les Koehler | Words of Wisdom, tips and tricks from an actual Y2K project | 11:15 | Pam Taylor | This session explores ideas for easing the transition from
the traditional procedural model to OO programming in general and to the Java object model in particular. | Noon | Lunch | 1:45 | Kurt Maerker | An introduction into the security features provided by Object Rexx
| 2:45 | John Blumel | Presentation on ORexx/SQL framework, an Object Rexx class library encapsulating the external Rexx function library Rexx/SQL, written by Mark Hessling, that provides access to SQL databases through a consistent interface across both platforms and databases. | 3:45 | Break | 4:00 | John Urbaniak | Developing Major Real-World Speech-Aware Applications Using Object REXX and DB2 (will include a demo of a system developed by Aviar) | 5:00 | Closing | Scheduled Evening Activities | 6:30 | Symposium Dinner | 8:00 | RexxLA Board Meeting | The Board Meeting is open to all RexxLA members and will be over by 9:30. Wednesday | Speaker | Description | 8:00 | Registration | 9:00 | Chip Davis | Conversion of command-line-mode Rexx programs to Java programs using NetRexx | 10:00 | Break | 10:15 | Les Koehler | VMServe 2 years later - Highlighting the improvements made | 11:00 | Ingo Holder | Generating HTML pages using Object Rexx | 12:00 | Lunch | 1:30 | Kurt Maerker | This session outlines programming techniques for building mobile agents and providing the communication infrastructure of an agency. (Sample programs will be provided to demonstrate these techniques of client/server
programming with Object Rexx.) | 2:30 | Break | 2:45 | Ian Collier | Fun with Rexx explores a mishmash of less serious applications ranging from word games to web pages. | 3:45 | Ingo Holder | Demo of "Workbench" | 4:30 | Closing | |