Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:57:08 -0500 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech 11/19 7pm Waltham - Java Data Objects Hi everyone. I hope you are all doing well and are ready to keep on keeping up with great new things at WebTech. We're working on setting up some terrific presentations for this Fall and Winter. The economy has not recovered yet, but rate of innovation has kept up througout (probably with the help of many of you!) and we're glad to bring as much of it to you as we can. The WebTech meeting this month will be on Tuesday, November 19th from 7 to 9 pm at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Details and directions are available at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech. This month we've got a great presentation on Java Data Objects (JDO) from one of the leaders of the technology. Loosely speaking, JDO is to generalized persistent data access what JDBC is to relational database access. It hasn't gotten a lot of press, but it's a very important technology. Come and find out more! I hope to see you there! ** Notice ** I also have a call-for-participation announcement at the end of this message on behalf of a project at Harvard Business School. They're looking for insights on JSP development. Check it out. -- Dan Jacobs, Chairman Abstract: Earlier this year, the Java Data Objects (JDO) specification was approved through the JCP in a landslide vote 14-0. The Java Data Objects specification provides a standard way for persisting objects and is showing a great deal of promise by increasing application portability, reducing development cycle time, and improving code quality. Applications written with JDO can be ported seamlessly across any data store without any recompilation or changes at the source level. Developers using JDO are seeing 20-40% decrease in coding. Java Data Objects works equally well in managed environments as well as non-managed environments. The following topics will be presented: * Introduction to the JDO standard * The benefits of the JDO API * A comparison of JDO to other persistence APIs * The JDO enhancement process * JDO's public interfaces * Examples of how to persist data using JDO * Examples of retrieving data using the JDO Query Language (JDOQL) * A description of how to use JDO with EJBs * An overview of SolarMetric's implementation of the JDO standard About the speaker: Patrick Linskey has been working with JDO for over 18 months and has been involved in object/relational mapping for over 4 years. SolarMetric is part of the specification maintenance team and is a charter member of JDOcentral, a consortium committed to marketing the Java Data Objects specification. SolarMetric has been active supporting the JDO specification at Java User Group meetings throughout the country at the Research Triangle Park, NC, Pittsburgh, Northern Virginia, Albany, Houston, New York City, Denver, Ft. Collins, Phoenix, Tucson and Austin. Patrick Linskey (pcl@solarmetric.com) manages and drives SolarMetric's technology development as Vice President of Engineering. Previously, Patrick worked in TechTrader's R&D department. At TechTrader, Patrick became the link between client projects and R&D helping ensure that TechTrader developed technology that met customers's needs. A skilled developer, Patrick is equally comfortable at the keyboard or in front of clients. Patrick has also worked at MIL 3 (now Opnet Technologies) and First USA. Patrick also worked on Passive RF Tagging Technology at MIT's Media Lab. Patrick graduated from MIT with a BS in Computer Science & Engineering. ---------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Harvard Business School JSP Development Project A team of Harvard Business School students is investigating web development tools, specifically in the area of JSP, as part of a field study with a software company this semester. We would like to interview several Boston-area web developers in order to learn more about the tools they use today and their needs in JSP development. We believe ACM WebTech members are uniquely suited to provide insights about JSP and are hopeful that our study will be used to better meet developers' needs. If you would be willing to participate in an interview for approximately 45 minutes, please contact Karen Bender at kbender@mba2003.hbs.edu or 617-335-5477. We greatly appreciate the support of ACM WebTech members! -----------------------------------------------