From:     Mark Johnson
Subject:  NEJUG Meeting New Topic! JavaFX and Java SE 6 Update 10: A new Desktop Experience
Date:     Friday, September 05, 2008 11:34:09 AM

We have selected a new speaker for our meeting on Fri, Sep 5.
We now have scheduled Raghavan "Rags" N. Srinivas to present
"JavaFX and Java SE 6 Update 10: A new Desktop Experience".
The meeting will take place at Sun Microsystems.
As always the doors will open at 5pm for networking, pizza should arrive around 5:30pm,
and the presentation will take place at 6pm.

If you had already registered for the original meeting,
please take a moment to re-register for this meeting.

Rich user interface based applications seem to be gaining
lots of popularity so we are fortunate to have "Rags"
available to present on JavaFX, a technology which looks to have lots of promise.
Register now to reserve your seat

Presentation Overview:

Java SE is on over 90% of desktops and Java ME is on over 90% of mobile phones.
Java is also making a big dent in the consumer space such as set top boxes,
Blu-Ray Disc players and so on. Although Java client technology is ubiquitous,
consumer applications are not because development and deployment for consumers
is still too hard. Rich Applications has achieved a new degree of sophistication
with requirements to add multimedia and animation.

With the introduction of the preview release of JavaFX SDK and Java SE 6 update N,
it is possible to incorporate animation and multimedia into new and existing Java applications.
The talk will explore new features of the JavaFX platform such as graphics, animation, media followed
by improvement to the core Java runtime for deployment and installation.

After attending this session attendees should be able to walk away with a good understanding of
where the JavaFX and Java SE platform is headed, how this should ease their development and
deployment concerns and how to apply these new technologies in their products and projects.


About our speaker:

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is the CTO of Technology Evangelism at Sun Microsystems looking at
new technology directions and trends. His general focus area is in distributed systems, with
a specialization in interoperability, mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of
technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening.
He publishes a standards column and has represented Sun at a number of standards bodies.
He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences.

Rags brings with him about 20 years of software development and about 7 years of technology
evangelism experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun.
He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT.
He has evangelized a number of technology areas including the early releases of Java,
Java EE, Java and XML, Java ME, AJAX and Web 2.0 and so on.

Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies
at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.


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