Date:     Mar 03/20/13 11:01 PM
From:     Mark Johnson
Subject:  NEJUG Meeting: Heavy Lifting in the Cloud with Spring Batch - Thu, Apr 11

Batch...what does that have to do with Java and the JVM.
Yes, the group does have as it's mission to help our employability...but still Batch!
In this era of agility fast computers and cool languages why do we need Batch?
Well register for this month's event and find out.

Date: Thu, Apr 11

Topic: Heavy Lifting in the Cloud with Spring Batch
Presenter: Michael Minella
Location: Constant Contact

Register now to reserve your seat

As always the doors will open at 5pm for networking, pizza provided by Constant Contact will arrive around 5:30pm,
and the presentation will take place at 6pm. Come early meet someone new and ensure you get a good seat.

Presentation Overview:

Spring Batch provides the ability to build scalable, mission critical applications for the bulk processing of data.
The cloud provides processing power in bulk for use in almost any way needed. This talk will demonstrate how to bridge
the two to provide cloud based scalability in batch processing.

About the presenter:

Michael Minella is a software engineer, teacher and author with over a decade of enterprise development experience.
Michael is a member of the expert group for JSR-352 (java batch processing). He currently works for VMware as the
project lead for Spring Batch as well as an instructor at DePaul University. Michael is the author of Pro Spring
Batch from Apress, the popular Refcard JUnit and EasyMock and was a technical reviewer for Struts 2 Web Application
Development by Dave Newton.

You can follow Michael on Twitter at @michaelminella.

As always, I want to take a moment to thank our sponsors:

    Special thanks to Constant Contact for pizza, water, and our wonderful meeting location
    Contegix for hosting our website
    Hello2morrow for their raffle contribution of a Sonargraph-Architect personal license
    VMware for VMware Fusion licenses for raffle

Mark Johnson

President, NEJUG
email:markfjohnson@gmail.com