This year's edition was an all-time first on JavaPolis. And a try-out edition too; because it takes a lot of guts to program for 12 hours while other people are attending the JavaPolis convention. The JavaPolis RAD Race is a shortened version of the "full" Original RAD Race" in which Java and non-Java teams compete without limitations towards the tools/frameworks/languages/etc. that are being used.

The assignment was a (partial) re-adaptation of an earlier "full" RAD Race case but with a slightly adapted data model and less (=16) than the original 25 deliverables. The RAD Race focuses on delivering real-life functionality. It is not an architecture or algorithm development contest.

The JavaPolis RAD Race 2005 case was about a JUIdicial Universal Insurance Claim Engine ('JUICE'). The 19 pages assignment gave the specific details to build this system. The following is a high-level, summary view of JUICE:

• Every person living in the BENELUX is part of JUICE and pays an annual fee to cover for the costs of JUICE.
• As soon as a person becomes a party in any case of law, he/she has to choose a lawyer from a pool of available lawyers. The choice of lawyers is restricted because each lawyer has a different specialization and seniority, that must be matched against the type of litigation/case/court.
• A law case is based on submissions (or documents) which originate from parties involved in the case, for example lawyers, experts or the police, etc?
• All submissions are logged into JUICE. Creating submissions (for example a pleading note made by a lawyer) costs money. The person involved in the law case must pay his lawyer for the effort of making this submission.
• This cost is logged into JUICE, who will pay back these costs if a number of strict conditions are met. However, JUICE will never make a full refund for the whole cost; refunding is always partial.
• By (partially) paying back the costs made, EUGOV wants to emphasize that going to court is a basic civilian right for all, rich and poor.
• Ultimately, of the 15 registered teams, 11 showed up at the start with their individual toolset. The simple fact that they took the challenge makes them winners because the RAD Race is challenging exercise, benchmark and test environment for development strategies and toolsets.

The first virtual JavaPolis 2005 talk by Scott W. Ambler (login required) has been released on our wiki. We'll release every week a conference talk (from day 3) on our wiki.

JavaPolis conference talks from day 1 and 2 will get released on a regular basis through our partners JavaLobby and The Server Side. Of course we'll make sure that released JavaPolis talks will get announced on our wiki too, so don't worry

Around March 2006 we'll release the JavaPolis 2005 dual DVD which will hold ALL of the JavaPolis 2005 University, Conference, Quickies presentations and interviews.

How Java can change health?

In Brazil, every citizen has the right to full healthcare, from primary care to complex procedures as heart transplants, for free, any place in the country. With a population of 180 million people, information is the key to better distribute resources and provide better healthcare.

Taking advantage of the Java based infrastructure of the Brazilian National Health Card, in 2003 a huge project was started aiming to build an integrated web based application to collect patient encounter information, to regulate complex procedures authorizations and to build an integrated patient scheduling system that would allow to schedule consultations and medical procedures in any health provider. This reduces the waiting time, organizes the flow of patients, and greatly improves the quality of care.

The challenge was to build a quality application in a short time frame. This presentation will focus on how J2EE technology was extensively used to build this mission-critical application and to achieve the level of integration needed. Using J2EE technologies such as EJB, Servlets, JSP, JMS, JTA, and JAAS, it was possible to create a robust and high performance application, with a high level of reuse and flexibility.
From the time the first use case was specified to the time the information system was deployed, only four months had elapsed and 2.5 million lines of code were produced. As a result, this project won the Duke?s Choice Award at JavaOne 2005.

This session will share the experience of building such a system, showing how it was designed, the challenges, the problems, what changed in the health system once it was deployed, and show the importance of the decision on using a standard based and multi-platform architecture, that allows several independent teams to augment the information system,
adding value to it and improving the quality of care.

Speaker

• Fabiane Bizinella Nardon

JavaPolis 2005 Survey

Now that JavaPolis 2005 is behind us we would like to ask the JavaPolians to
fill in our online survey.

Hopefully this online survey will allow us (in a more formal way) capture
your feedback and comments for JavaPolis 2005 and 2006.

So next to a (free) working WIFI what else is on your mind ?
Which topics would you like to see covered in 2006 ?
Who should we invite to speak ?
Are you interested in a JavaPolis DVD ?

The above are just a few survey questions we would like to receive some answers on... please feed us !