Transcript AustinJUG_01-30-2007 - Austin Java Users Group

January 30th, 2007
Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic
Welcome
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Meet and Greet
Meet and Greet – 1 minute
Find out name, company, favorite Java-based
technology used and current project
What’s new in the
Java world?
ServerSide Case study on open source
ESBs – picked MULE as the best
IceFaces – interesting tricks with HTTP
Java 6 and Java EE 5 Released!
Enterprise Pack 5.5 for NetBeans
(Cool BPEL workflow Editor)
Memorable Quotes
by Steve Jobs
"We want to bring Java back to the desktop in
a really big way. I'm here today to personally
tell you we are working hard to make Mac the
best Java delivery vehicle on the planet. The
biggest thing we are doing is we are going to
bundle Java 2 SE into every single copy of
Mac OS X”
“Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses
Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball
and chain.”
Latest Sun Executive BoardRoom Letter
By Jonathan Swartz
“I’ve always thought the words thin client were
oxymoronic”
“TVs got more interesting when they sprouted set top
boxes. Radio got more interesting when iPods came
along. And cell phones blossomed when you could
download games and ringtones to their resident Java
platform”
…compare Google Earth to Google Maps
Java Standard 6 edition …single biggest
improvement in the Java platform in years..
In the news…
The short form of the relationship is this Intel has agreed to endorse and OEM from
Sun the open source Solaris OS. Just stop
there for a second. If you're an industry
watcher, that's a pretty big change for the
both of us. Intel has anointed Solaris as
The Mission Critical Unix for Intel/Xeon.
They're also endorsing, and we'll jointly be
optimizing, the NetBeans and Java
platforms, and working with us to fuel the
communities from which they spawn.
Topic Suggestions?
1. Eclipse plugins
2. Javacc – compiler generators
3. Ajax toolkits – which one is the best, free ones
4. Closures – what they are why we use them
5. What’s new in Java 6 from the rank and file
6. GWT – Google’s toolkit
7. Spring-2 –newest version, AspectJ
8. JSR 282 – follow on to 168, Portal API
9. Sun’s Jackpot
Contact the Board with
Suggestions
Deb Ayers
Ernest Hill
Rob Ratcliff (emcee tonight)
Norman Richards
Michael Yuan
[email protected]
Austin JUG Certification
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Networking and Fun
Next Month’s Meeting
Dr. Kathryn McKinley
University of Texas Computer Science
Researching Java benchmarking and memory
management techniques
PDF Generation Using iText
by
Norman Richards
J2EE Architecture Review
Software Remodeling:
Improving Design and
Implementation Quality
by
Al Mannarino
Lead Systems Engineer for CodeGear
Networking and Fun