6:30-7:00 p.m.: Voter registration and social.

Melissa Meeker and Eric Stark from ValTech provided refreshments for the members prior to the meeting.

7:10 p.m. Billy Barron calls the meeting to order.

Announcements:

• JavaMUG Constitution and Bylaws will be voted on at the October Meeting. The document is available for review here on the JavaMUG website.
• Any suggestions for the Constitution or Bylaws should be sent to the JavaMUG Board prior to the October meeting.
• New officers will be nominated at the October meeting and voted on at the November meeting. These new officers will take their positions in January 2000.

Robert Korngiebel from Forté Software presents their product SynerJ.

Introduction:

Forté made the move to using Java when they discovered that the web enabling technologies seemed to have trouble integrating with other systems. They changed their previous core technology to run on Java standard.

Sun Microsystems acquired Forté as a wholly owned subsidiary; to date, this has been the largest acquisition that Sun has made.

Target Market:

• Evolving Internet Applications
• Document publishing
• Standard E-Commerce
• Integrated E-Business
• Application Server
• Process Manager
• Package Technical Data

• Integration technology
• Open Application Integration
• Portability

• Modular Design – complementary to other products (open standards). Can deploy third party servers
• Completely Standards Based
• Collaborative Support
• Automated:
• Code distribution
• Code compilation
• Resource checking
• Distributed debugging
• Server: 24 x 7 reliability
• Load balancing
• Centralized management

At the conclusion of the SynerJ presentation, forms to register for free trial software are collected.

Meeting adjourns.