OpenLaszlo seminar report from Japan
Keiji Ono promised to send us a report on the OpenLaszlo seminar held in Japan by Net8. I asked him for some screen shots of the Japanese OpenLaszlo applications they featured in the seminar and was very happy to get a mail today containing the screen shots and a lengthy sum up of the event. Here's a translation of the original report available in Japanese (≪net8主催≫OpenLaszlo事例紹介セミナー 〜OpenLaszlo����使�れ��る？) on the Net8 website:
Net8 held a seminar to introduce real world applications and systems built with OpenLaszlo on October 12 in Tokyo Japan. We have been holding some introductionary seminars on OpenLaszlo before, but never one showing real word examples of applications deployed in Japan. So this was a premiere. The purpose of the seminar was to show members of enterprise IT departments where and how OpenLaszlo applications are used, based on real world examples . The Sun Microsystems Japan office in Tokyo hosted the event. Thank you to Sun Microsystems for their corporation. And also we did not forget about the help we received from Laszlo Systems, thank you so much.
The seminar contained three sessions with over 60 participants. Net8 is providing wide variety OpenLaszlo support services for enterprise customers who are using OpenLaszlo, and we are also working on making OpenLaszlo more popular in Japan.
The first application presented was a monitoring and operation system of a river gate from Aizunk. The system is used for flood defense of a river. The following screen shot is a visualization of the gate control. Whenever an operator sends a command from the controller, the gate was blinking on it, meaning that the gate was going up or down. The graphics of the facilities are created using a paint tool ( like PhotoShop ) and then used as as background picture. Components like comboboxes, text, and view of the gate are then put on top the picture. According to Aizyunk the reason why they chose OpenLaszlo was the fact that they had to come up with an event driven control application. And OpenLaszlo was the best choice for that.
The second session introduced a group ware application from Doinet. Doinet is working on an OpenLaszlo based version of their group ware product which they had previously built with Curl. They had introduced the Curl version of it into Nagasaki prefectural government. But the cause of the license fee, they were remaking it with OpenLaszlo. The application is a typical RIA application that has no paging and supports drag&drop and other functions. Especially the custom components they built proviced them a better performance than the standard OpenLaszlo component. The custom components became a characteristic of their product. Doinet said that they are going to polish the design and performance of the application before the final release.
The last session featured consumer contents from Recruit. Recruit is the one of the typical corporations in the field of human resource solution business in Japan. The name of solution they showed us is Jin-Miyaku-Bank, which centers around human networks. Based on the contents entered into the system it can analyze member's human relations into from various angles, and it could show with radar chart based on graduated from the same school, relation of inside company, relation of outside company, etc. A view of the structural proportion by industry, by age or by business - based on the profile data - can be generated as well. The system can be used to analyzed what human network you have. OpenLaszlo was used in all the analyzing page. The system is very unique in a way, looking like an evolution of SNS.
The seminar of this time, we could show some real system of using graphics, for enterprise and for consumer . They were hight-quality IT system and they were the best system that show the characteristic of OpenLaszlo. We were thinking it was a great time. So we would like to keep working to introduce OpenLaszlo into Japan.
Thanks to Keiji and his team for this great report. It's hard to track the OpenLaszlo applications deployed around the world. We have seen a lot of activity in Japan but don't have a good understanding of what kind of applications are being deployed there. This report definitely helps to get a better understanding of the situation of OpenLaszlo in Japan. Great work, Keiji!