The need for IT industry professionals to meet and discuss opportunities has never been better and the Eclipse Forum India conference plays a strategic role in delivering that platform. Eclipse Forum India 2007 provides an ecosystem where you learn how to significantly increase your productivity and lower your costs. It brings together visionaries, industry luminaries, renowned software architects and IT consultants to impart the latest information on important development and architecture trends. Participants can meet and network with representatives of the most important companies in the industry and receive valuable knowledge of social processes and methods in software development projects. Eclipse Forum India 2007 will also host an expo hall, where vendors will showcase their latest products and services.

Program planning is in the final stages for the JAX India 2007 Conference, happening May 28-31, 2007 at Indian Institue of Science in Bangalore, India. Here is a sample of the high-profile sessions and speakers included in the 2007 line-up:

• An Introduction to the embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) – Chris Aniszczyk, Eclipse Committer
• The Eclipse Open Innovation Network – Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Ecosystem Builder
• ALF in action: Orchestrating ALM Tools in Real Time – Kevin Parker, Eclipse ALF Evangelist
• Anatomy of an Eclipse RCP Application – Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Technical Director, Eclipse Foundation
• Mylar: the Tool and the Framework – Mik Kersten, Eclipse Mylar Leader
• Eclipse Callisto and Europa – Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Ecosystem Builder
• Data Services – What, Why, How? – Himagiri Mukkamala, ebXML Co-author
• Tasktop: the Task-focused Desktop – Mik Kersten, Eclipse Mylar Leader
• The Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project – Kevin Parker
• Data Tools Platform (DTP) project – SQL Development in Eclipse – Himagiri Mukk mala, ebXML Co-author
• Test First Development Using Eclipse – Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Technical Director, Eclipse Foundation
• SDLC for SOA - Where are the Models? – Himagiri Mukkamala, ebXML Co-author
• Fundamentals of Eclipse Plug-in and RCP Development – Chris Aniszczyk, Eclipse Committer
• Task-focused Programming with Mylar – Mik Kersten, Eclipse Mylar Leader

JAX India 2007 (http://www.jaxindia.com), Enterprise Architecture Conference (http://www.eaconindia.com) and Eclipse Forum India 2007 (http://www.eclipseforumindia.com) will be held parallel. Note that there will be three parallel sessions at any given time, so attendees can choose to attend the sessions they want to. That apart, Eclipse Forum India 2007 also features full-day and half-day power workshops, where participants can choose to attend either 1 Full-day Power Workshop or 2 Half-day Power Workshops.