Date:    Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:12:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:    Nejug President
Subject: NEJUG Follow-up & August 12th Meeting Announcement

This message is going out to all NEJUG members . . .

I hope you've had a great summer so far.  It's hard to believe
we've gone almost 2 months without a NEJUG meeting !

First, I would like to thank Howard Lewis Ship for
his presentation to the NEJUG on Thursday June 10th, titled
"Creating Powerful Web Forms with Tapestry".

Special thanks to Jay Zimmerman from the New England Software
Symposium for sponsoring Howard.

The slides from Howard's presentation can be
viewed at:
http://www.nejug.org/2004/jun04.jsp


The next NEJUG meeting will be held on Thursday August 12th at 6:00pm at
the Sun Campus in Burlington, where 3 JavaOne participants from Sun will
give an overview of this June's JavaOne Conference.

If you were unable to attend JavaOne, this will be a great opportunity
to see and hear a summary first-hand.

Meeting Overview:

1. JavaOne 2004 - Overview, Themes and Impressions
    The 3 speakers will give brief overviews/impressions
    of the conference

2. JDK 5.0 - New language features, important JSR's, API's

3. JDK 5.0 Performance - tools available to help developers
            evaluate and solve performance problems

4. Ease of Development initiatives (JNDC etc.)

5. Creator Demo - Brief overview of the underlying technology (JSF etc).


About the speakers:

Vic Bahl has been at Sun 13 years, initially as part of Sun Professional
Services.  His background is in Software Development, having designed and
implemented projects at Kodak, Calspan and Bell Aerospace-Textron, ranging
from high-speed printing to air defense systems to gravitational sensors
prior to coming to Sun in 1991. He currently is a Software S.E. at
Sun Microsystems.

Bruce Brown is a Senior Systems Engineer with Sun Microsystems
specializing in Aerospace Accounts. Bruce has 10 years of
experience supporting aerospace software engineers. Prior to
joining Sun, Bruce worked as a lead software engineer developing
real-time embedded systems for Lockheed Martin.

Rinaldo DiGiorgio is an Advanced Development Engineer at Sun
Microsystems. Rinaldo has several patents in the area of Digital Commerce,
application of Java Card technology and Web Services-like infrastructure.


For more information about the meeting, please go to:
http://www.nejug.org/next.jsp
To register, please go to:
http://www.nejug.org/meetingRegistration.jsp


We hope to see you at the meeting.
Thanks.


Steve

Steve Maienza
Officer, New England Java Users Group
CGI
600 Federal St.
Andover, MA 01810
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