Plumtree Launches Industry's First Developer Program and Conference for Building Service-Oriented Applications

Plumtree Launches Industry's First Developer Program and Conference for Building
Service-Oriented Applications
Support for Java and .NET Developers Key Element of Radical Openness Product
Strategy 


SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree
Software  today launched a major new developer program to support customers and
partners building service-oriented applications based on the Plumtree Enterprise
Web Suite, and announced plans to host its first annual developer conference in
San Francisco, May 3rd - 5th.

The new program includes Plumtree's online Developer Center, quarterly developer
user group meetings and newsletters, new application development courses offered
by Plumtree Education Services and a plannedapplications incubator within
Plumtree's San Francisco and Boston offices designed for intense collaboration
with customers and partners. As part of Plumtree's Radical Openness product
strategy, the developer program provides equal support for both Java and .NET
coding, on a wide range of application servers. Developers can sign up for the
conference at http://www.plumtree.com/developers/conference or visit
http://www.plumtree.com/04/edk to download a new white paper on Plumtree's
developer support.

"The Enterprise Web Developer Program is the culmination of a profound
transformation in Plumtree's business," said Plumtree VP of Engineering Eric
Zocher. "Beyond offering a simple portal presentation of data, last year's
release of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite delivered a true development
platform, for building a wide range of applications based on services from
different systems and businesses, all connected via Internet protocols."

"As part of 2004's Radical Openness initiative, Plumtree isproviding equal
support for Java and .NET across an extensive set of developer tools and
programming interfaces. For the hundreds of customers and partners building
service-oriented applications, we offer unprecedented freedom and power, and now
this program is bringing together all the resources needed to ensure their
success."

  Advanced Developer Conference to Focus on Development of Service-Oriented
   Applications


The Advanced Developer Conference's three-day agenda spans the entire range of
programming interfaces and developer tools available with the Plumtree
Enterprise Web Suite, for building applications based on the Plumtree Portal Web
Services API, the Plumtree User Interface Customization Framework and Plumtree
Integration Web Services. Plumtree is preparing computer labs for the
conference, with new code samples in Java, Visual Basic.NET and C#, and hands-on
exercises designed to help developers build the different components of an
entire application. The conference will award prizes for the best applications
built in the labs, and will offer customers a portable storage device for
bringing code created in the lab back to the office.

Over a dozen Plumtree partners building commercial applications using Plumtree's
Enterprise WebSuite will be invited to participate, and Plumtree product
engineers and customers will lead technical presentations on topics such as:

  -- Crawler, Authentication, Profile and Search Web Services;
  -- Active Portlets, Pluggable Navigation and Plumtree Event Interfaces;
  -- Collaboration Server and Search Server programming interfaces;
  -- Advanced portlet development techniques in Java and VisualBasic.NET;
  -- Microsoft .NET Web Controls and portlets that refresh in-place; and
  -- Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 and Web Services for Remote
     Portlet (WSRP) standards.



The conference will also offer open labs from 7 a.m. to 12 midnight, where
developers can build sample portlets and applications with assistance from
Plumtree experts.

User Groups, Newsletters and Educational Services Available for Developers

Additional resources available in Plumtree's Enterprise Web Developer Program
include:

  -- Developer user group meetings and quarterly newsletters that allow
     developers to learn from each other and keep up-to-date on new tools
     and best practices;
  -- New downloadable quick-start guides and sample code used by customers
     and partners on Plumtree's Developer Center;
  -- Summer online technical seminar series, open to all developers to
     engage Plumtree engineers and customers on key development challenges;
  -- Threaded discussions on a host of topics, including Pluggable
     Navigation samples in C# and VisualBasic.Net, frequented by hundreds of
    developers each week on Plumtree's Developer Center; and
  -- Three-day workshops focusing on development of the EDK, offered by
     Plumtree Educational Services.



Interested parties can enroll in Plumtree's Developer Program by visiting the
Developer Center at http://devcenter.plumtree.com/ .

About Plumtree Software

Plumtree Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to create
a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and partners across the
enterprise to interact with different systems and work together. Plumtree's
Enterprise Web solution consists of integration products for bringing resources
from traditional systems together on the Web, shared services such as
collaboration, content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal platform for delivering these Web applications to broad audiences.
Plumtree's independence and its Web Services Architecture allow this solution to
span rival platforms and systems, helping maximize customers' return on their
existing technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen countries,
Plumtree has licensed over 575 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company,
Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree onthe
Web at http://www.plumtree.com/.

NOTE:  Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc. and/or its
subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and
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respective owners.

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