From:    "nejug.bos.us"
Subject:  NEJUG Meeting Next week January 10th: SOA Using Web Services with Mark Hansen
Date:     Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:04:39 PM

Just a reminder that next Thursday (January 10th) is the January NEJUG meeting on
SOA using Java Web Services with Mark Hansen.

The meeting will be held at the Sun Microsystems Burlington Campus.

As usual, pizza should arrive around 5:30pm, and the presentation will start at
6pm.  Arrive early and avoid the lines and get an opportunity to meet another NEJUG member.

This should be a popular meeting, so register your seat today at
http://www.nejug.org/meetingRegistration.jsp.

During the meeting Mark Hansen will offer his insights on developing Web
Services using Java.

Some of the specific topics he will be touching on will include:

- Practical techniques for managing the complexity of Web services and SOA,
        including best-practice design examples
- Insights into building effective SOA applications with Java Web Services
          Illuminate recent major JWS improvements
- Discuss SOA integration using WSDL, SOAP, Java/XML mapping, and JAXB 2.0 data
          binding  Provide a series of examples using the JWS APIs

Mark Hansen, Ph.D., is a software developer, consultant, and entrepreneur. Mark is also
the author of the book SOA Using Web Services. His company, Javector Software, provides
consulting and software application development focused on Web services. Mark is also a
content developer for Project GlassFish and has developed the open source SOA-J
application framework for WSDL-centric Web services development.  Previously, Mark was
a visiting scholar at MIT, researching applications for process and data integration using
Web services technology. Prior to that, Mark was an executive vice president for Xpedior,
Inc., a leading provider of e-business consulting services. He joined Xpedior when they
acquired his consulting firm, Kinderhook Systems.  Mark founded Kinderhook in 1993 to
develop custom Internet solutions for Fortune 1000 firms in the New York metropolitan
area. Prior to founding Kinderhook Systems, Hansen was a founder and vice president of
technology for QDB Solutions, Inc., a software firm providing tools for data integrity
management in corporate data warehouses.  Mark's work has been featured in publications
such as the Wall Street Journal, Information Week, Computer World, Database Management,
Database Programming and Design, Business Communications Review, EAI Journal,
and IntelligentEnterprise.  Mark earned a Ph.D. from the MIT Laboratory for Computer
Science, a master's degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's
degree in mathematics from Cornell University.

Also, don't forget about the NEJUG Spring subgroup meeting on clustering
Spring applications presented by Patrick Peralta, which will be held the following week
(Jan 17th) at the Cisco campus in Boxborough, Ma.  To register for the Spring
subgroup go to http://www.r3dsoftware.com/NejugSite/registrations/registerValidate.

See you January 10th for a discussion on Web Services and then again on January 17th for a
discussion on Scalibility for Spring applications.

Mark Johnson
President, NEJUG
email:mark.f.johnson@cgi.com