January 26th, 2010Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

WelcomeAustin Java Users Group

Announcements

Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?)

groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2428 active members on the mailing list)

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What’s New in the Java World?

• NetBeans 6.8 Released

• Support for JEE 6, Restful WS, JavaFX 1.2.1,

• Full PHP support, improved support for Maven, Ruby, Groovy and C/C++

• Code completion for SQL editor

• Java 1.6_18 released – performance improvements, faster startup, faster jar creation, rendering improvements, lots of bug fixes, enhancements to VisualVM and JavaDB

• Glassfish 2.1.1. and OpenESB 2.2 released in December

Oracle Deal Goes Through

Snorcle?

Where else would Duke need a snorcle, but in an

aquarium visiting a glassfish?

What’s New in the Java World

• Oracle World – September 19th, 2010

• JavaOne 2010?

• Larry Ellison to hold Sun/Oracle

strategy update tomorrow at 9:00 AM

to 2:00 PM PST

Certification

Interest for Java Programmer, Developer

or others?

Mike Forsberg – bigmike@io.com

Thanks

Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the

projector every month!

Thanks to Mabel Willie and Mitch Fincher

for providing the nametags and

greetings

Suggested Topics•Java rules engines –drools, commercial packages

•GWT

• DSL

• Android development/J2ME

• GIS based (OpenMap, Google Maps, ESRI)

• Google App Engine

• Maven

• Ivy and other dependency managers

• Fork join

• Scala

• JavaEE 5

• JBOSS Weld

• Performance tuning, scalability, pitfalls, lessons learned, patterns

• Spring webflow

• Best practices on continuous integration

• Deployment

• Java testing tools (JMeter, Junit, etc)

• UI based testing – thick client, web client

• Java7

• Grails

• Java3D/JOGL

• Erlang

Contact the Board with Suggestions

austinjug_board@yahoogroups.com

Networking and Fun

Networking and Fun

Cassandra DistributedDatabase

Stu Hood