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Plumtree Launches Technical Web Seminar Series for Developers Plumtree Engineers Share Code and Best Practices for Developing Service-Oriented Applications SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web technology leader Plumtree Software (NASDAQ:PLUM) today launched a Technical Web Seminar series, featuring sixteen presentations from Plumtree's Advanced Developer Conference, which took place last month. Customers will share best practices, present custom development work and show the applications they built using Plumtree's Enterprise Web Development Kit (EDK). Plumtree engineers will also present on topics such as Personalizing the User Experience, Integrating with Existing Web Applications and Advanced Portlet UI Development. The Technical Web Seminar series builds on the momentum of Plumtree's developer program, which has over 1,400 members and is designed to drive the development of service-oriented applications within the portal. The public can register for the Web seminars at http://www.plumtree.com/04/technicalseminars Planned dates and speakers for the Technical Web Seminar series are: Application Basics -- June 10, Customer Case Study: Hear from a financial services customer about how they built a customer support application that allows member banks to conduct transactions, view personalized account information, download relevant reports and research currency and coin information. -- June 17, Portal Administration Concepts for Developers: Walk through administration concepts for developers, including the basics of portal security, object relationships and user management. -- June 24, Dark Art of Application Debugging: Learn about trace and error handling as well as how to test your custom Web services with the Plumtree Service Station. Application UI Development -- July 1, UI Customizations Without Coding: Learn how to use Content Server portlets, the Plumtree Style Sheet Mill and subportal functionality to dramatically alter the user experience. -- July 8, UI Customization Case Study: Hear from a Plumtree customer and a Plumtree product specialist on how the upgrade from the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.5 to 5.0 went, focusing on the work done with UI customization. -- July 15, Personalizing the User Experience (Part One): Learn how to personalize login for multiple guest experiences and build Plumtree Event Interfaces (PEIs) triggered by authentication. -- July 22, Personalizing the User Experience (Part Two): Learn advanced UI development techniques, including how to build Pluggable Navigation schemes and custom pages using the portal's framework. -- July 29, Advanced Portlet UI Development: Learn how to build Adaptive Portlets with .NET Web Controls and Java tools, as well as how to code portlets with inter-portlet communication and in-place refresh. Building Applications -- August 5, Populating Your Application: Learn how to build a user's profile with Authentication and Profile Web Services. See how you can create a custom landing page and run your code based on a user action using a Plumtree Event Interface (PEI). -- August 12, Filling Your Application With Content: Find out how to build Crawler Web Services to import and categorize information from multiple systems and how to display that data through portlets. -- August 19, Building Portlets and Accessing Portal Data: Learn how to populate your application with useful and compelling portlets by using preferences, transformer tags and the Plumtree Server API. -- August 26, Manipulating Portal Objects: Take a walk deeper into the guts of the Plumtree Corporate Portal API and learn to manipulate objects, modify tables and more. Integrating with Backend Systems -- September 9, Integration with Existing Web Applications: Explore how to integrate your existing Web applications and legacy systems into your portal. -- September 16, Integration with Business Intelligence (BI) Systems: Learn about custom BI integration and how to surface business intelligence data through dashboards. -- September 23, Integration with Identity Management Systems: Find out how to integrate your application with single sign-on and identity management systems like LDAP and Active Directory. -- September 30, Integration with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Discover how to integrate your application with your ERP systems like SAP and PeopleSoft. The Technical Web Seminars will be recorded and available on Plumtree's Developer Center ( http://devcenter.plumtree.com/ ), an online resource center offering over 1,500 discussion threads, thousands of pages of documentation and a variety of code samples. 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 framework 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 600 customers, including Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit Plumtree on the 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 unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or . DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software, Inc. CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or Web site: http://www.plumtree.com/

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