Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:21:03 -0400 (EDT) From: NEJUG President Subject: Nejug Important Announcements This message is going out to all nejug members I want to thank Ted Osborne for his great presentation on the performance considerations of EJB Design Patterns and how to test design patterns. His slides are now posted on the web site under http://www.nejug.org/last.htm. Also, I wanted to express thanks to Apex Consulting Group for the pizza and water, and for Sun Microsystems for the use fo the room. Also, I wanted to thank Steve Kolak from Empirix for the free Beantest licenses and the two "Professional EJB" books for the raffle, and also to Expert-Press for the 10 J2EE Performance Testing books that Ted Osborne recently authored. The next Nejug meeting will be held at the JPMorgan Auditorium at the Cross Point building on Thursday, October 10th at 6:30pm, where Joshua Bloch will be speaking to us about Effective Java. Most of you may know Joshau Bloch from his well-known book "Effective Java Programming Language Guide". Joshua is a Senior Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and has worked extensively on several areas of the Java API, including the Collections API and the java.math package. Since we are a Java Users Group, this is a great chance to get back to basics and start talking more about Java. For more information about the meeting and to register, please go to http://www.nejug.org/next.htm. Please remember that you must be on the meeting registration list to attend the meeting. Directions for the meeting can be found on the web site by going to http://www.nejug.org/directions_chase.htm. As a followup to the announcements I made the other night, the Macromedia Boston Users Group is having a meeting covering the uses of Flash as a front end to server-based systems such as J2EE, .Net, and Web Services. The dates, times, location, and details of this meeting can be found at http://www.nejug.org/news.htm In other news, as promised we have put together a Yahoo mailing list specifically for those members who with to receive information about Java related job openings. If you wish to subscribe to the group, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nejug-jobs. If you wish to post a job posting to the group, go to the same link or send email to nejug-jobs@yahoogroups.com. Special thanks go to Donna Alger for setting this up for everyone. If you have any questions about the service, please contact Donna directly at donna@nejug.org. Andrew Johnson from Kada Systems approached me after the meeting and said that he would be willing to do a presentation to the group on a step-by-step approach for writing Java applications on the Palm. We will try to have this meeting in either January or February. Jacek Kruszelnicki has recently formed the New England Weblogic Users Group. The first meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 2nd from 5-7pm at the Babson Room at BEA Systems, 4 Van de Graaff Drive, Burlington, MA. For more information, please contact Jacek at Jacek@numatica.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newugboard. Thanks all for now. Hope to see you at the meeting! Mark -- Mark Richards President, New England Java User Group Chief Architect, Internet Technology Apex Consulting Group, Inc. ------------------------------------ office: 781.944.0212 cell: 781.869.6958 email: mailto:wmrichards@att.net work: mailto:mrichards@apexcgi.com web: http://www.apexcgi.com nejug: http://www.nejug.org