April 27th, 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 (2451 active members on the mailing list)

Announcements from Members (1399 active members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

y = 9.411x - 11016

y = 22.819x - 27629

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

May-01

May-02

May-03

May-04

May-05

May-06

May-07

May-08

May-09

Mem

be

rs

Technical Mailing List Jobs Mailing List Linear (Technical Mailing List) Linear (Jobs Mailing List)

What’s New in the Java World?

• NetBeans 6.9Beta Released – OSGI interoperability, JDK 1.6 supported only, JavaFX 1.3, Spring 3.0, CDI – Summer 2010 release

• James Gosling leaves Oracle

• IBM chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for their cross-brand appliance initiatives

• JavaFX 1.3 - enhanced support for UI controls, CSS skinning, and programmatic layout, performance improvements

• Eclipse Announces New SOA Initiative

• OSGi is too complex?

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 Willy 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

Leveraging your multi-core systems with Fork-Join

David Sheth

Better Software with Java and Flex

James Ward