The need for IT industry professionals to meet and discuss opportunities has never been better and the JAX India conference plays a strategic role in delivering that platform. JAX India 2007 provides an eco-system 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. JAX 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 (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:

• JSF and Ajax - Best of Friends – Craig McClanahan, Struts/Shale Creator
• Best Practices for Developing Interoperable Web Service Applications – Thilo Frotscher, WebServices Specialist
• Enterprise Unified Process – Soumen Chatterjee, TOGAF Certified Practitioner
• An Open Source Agnostic's View from the Inside – Neelan Choksi, Open Source Coach
• Architecture of Java Persistence Implementations – Craig Russell, Java Persistence Authority
• Increase Project Success with Java Architecture Management – Alexander von Zitzewitz, Java Architecture Specialist
• Test First Development Using Eclipse – Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Technical Director, Eclipse Foundation
• An Introduction to the embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) and and RCP Development –Chris Aniszczyk, Eclipse Committer
• Eclipse Callisto and Europa – Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Ecosystem Builder
• Data Services – What, Why, How? – Himagiri Mukkamala, ebXML Co-author
• Mylar: the Tool and the Framework – Mik Kersten, Eclipse Mylar Leader
• Java Rich Internet Application (RIA) Pattern – Janak Mulani, RIA/MDA Expert
• Why is Everyone So Excited About Ruby on Rails? – Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks Architect
• Web 2.0? But I'm Barely Keeping Up With Web 1.0 Right Now! – Craig McClanahan
• Groovy And Grails Tutorial – Harshad Oak, Java/Oracle Practitioner

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, JAX India 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