May 26th, 2015#AustinJug

Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

Welcome

Austin Java Users Group

13 Years Strong!

Last Decade of Sponsors

AnnouncementsJobs (Who has them, who wants one?)groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2799 members on the mailing list)

Announcements from Members groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug

(1753 members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s New?Java’s 20th Birthday!

2015 Lone Star Software Symposium – July 10-12, 2015

Oracle stopped free updates to Java SE 7 last month. Java SE 8 Update 45 is out.

Lessons Learnt Translating 25k line of C# into Javahttp://www.javacodegeeks.com/2015/05/lessons-learnt-translating-25k-line-of-c-into-java.html

Use Java 8

Be careful of unintended behavior – HashMap doesn’t keep insertion order whereas Dictionary did.

Got performance improvements by cleaning up persistence architecture compared to the Visual Studio generated code

RedHat’s DevNation (Full Stack Developer conference) is June 21-25, 2015 in Boston

Upcoming release of Eclipse “Mars” in June will include a Gradle based build system called Buildship.

Sponsorship QuestionsTopic Suggestions

Speaker Volunteers?

Contact:Rob Ratcliff

rob@futuretek.com

ThanksThanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector for the last few years.

Thanks to Mabel Willy for providing the nametags & friendly greetings

After Meeting NetworkingBJ'S Restaurant & Brewery

Networking and Fun

Groovy Vampires: Combining Groovy, REST, NoSQL, and

more

Ken Kousen