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2012
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2011
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July
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"Java 7,"
presented by Brent Loschen.
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September
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"Guava,"
presented by Ryan Breidenbach.
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December
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"Solr,"
presented by Erik Hatcher.
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2007
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January
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"JPA: The New Enterprise Persistence Standard,"
presented by Mike Keith.
Abstract/Bio
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February
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"Relax, You've Got Maven,"
presented by Pete Carapetyan.
Abstract/Bio
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March
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"What Is NetBeans?"
presented by Gregg Sporar, Technical Evangelist.
Abstract/Bio
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April
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"Groovy for Java Programmers,"
presented by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam.
Abstract/Bio
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June
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"Introduction to Building Rich Client Applications with Eclipse RCP,"
presented by Brian Polster.
Abstract/Bio
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July
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"Orchestrating Messaging, Data Grid, and Database for Scalable Performance,"
presented by Jonathan Purdy.
Abstract/Bio
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September
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"Glassbox: Open Source Java Monitoring and Troubleshooting,"
presented by John D. Heintz.
Abstract/Bio
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October
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"Service-oriented Patterns and Anti-patterns,"
presented by Kyle Gabhart.
Abstract/Bio
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November
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"Rockin' Websites with Dojo Toolkit,"
presented by Bob Byron.
Abstract/Bio
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December
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"Test Driven Development,"
presented by Rod Coffin and Dave Nicolette.
Abstract/Bio
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2006
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January
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"Unified IT Risk Management Services," presented by David Hecksel,
Senior Java Architect with Sun Microsystems.
Abstract/Bio
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February
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"JBoss Seam," presented by Norman Richards,
JBoss developer.
Abstract/Bio
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June
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"Hibernate by Example,"
presented by Eitan Suez.
Abstract/Bio
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July
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"Agile Development at Google: Agile Practices on Large Real-World Projects,"
presented by Ian McFarland.
Abstract/Bio
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August
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"UML and Java - The Next Code Generation,"
presented by Daniel Brookshier.
Abstract/Bio
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September
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"What is Eclipse?,"
presented by Wayne Beaton, Eclipse evangelist.
Abstract/Bio
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October
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"Learning to Love JavaScript,"
presented by Glenn Vanderburg.
Abstract/Bio
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November
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"Ajax and Beyond with ThinWire,"
presented by Joshua Gertzen.
Abstract/Bio
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2005
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January
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"Top 25 JUG J2SE 5.0 Celebration Tour," presented by Raghavan Srinivas,
Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems.
Abstract/Bio
Attendance: 90 people were present at the meeting.
49 of those people were existing members.
23 new members were signed up at the meeting.
Announcements: SIG Groups each announced their upcoming monthly meetings.
Prizes: 30 Books awarded, plus J2SE 5.0 Getting Started CDs,
JUG T-shirts, and Tiger key chains.
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February
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"Moving To The P2P World With JXTA," presented by Daniel Brookshier,
JavaMUG President.
Abstract/Bio
30 people attended the meeting; 5 new members joined.
Announcements: SIG Meeting Announcements
Speaker #1: Dr. Charles Forgy
Dr Charles Forgy, inventor of the Rete algorithm, and the principal designer of
OPS5, the language in which the first commercially successful expert system
was written spoke first.
He gave the group an overview of rules engines and their history.
Speaker #2: Daniel Brookshier, JavaMUG President
Peer-to-peer (P2P) is not obvious for most things other than file sharing.
Moving To The P2P World With JXTA.
Prizes:
Several t-shirts from Sun MicroSystems were handed out.
Just Java book – Susan Graham
Studio Creator book – Susan Graham
Java Garage book – Erik Weibust
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March
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"An Introduction to Application Security in J2EE Environments,"
presented by Dan Cornell,
Partner in and Co-founder of the Denim Group.
44 people attended the meeting; 6 new members joined.
Announcements:
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Next month, JavaMUG will be meeting for the first time in their new location at Sun Microsystems.
- The winning entry for the JavaMUG Vision Statement was provided by Stephanie Smith.
The new Vision Statement is:
Promoting Java Locally through Community
Other entries were:
- We develop the People component at the core of Java APIs
- JavaMug brews the best programmers and architects in the DFW area
- Just code it
Dan's presentation covered some of the basics of application security such as:
- authentication,
- authorization, and
- proper input handling.
Dan was also kind enough to provide us with a copy of his presentation.
It is available
here.
You can get more information on his company at
www.denimgroup.com.
Prizes:
Chris Gannus – 2 Java Almanacs
Xiaofang Xu – .Net & J2EE
Zhongawa Zhin – Beginning JDK 5
Pochuan Lin – Web Service Patterns
Kishore Dandu – Beginning JDK 5
Peter Chia – Beginning Patterns in Java
Stephanie Smith – tshirt
Susan Graham – tshirt
Tim Ferrer – tshirt
Jim Mathis – tshirt
Terri Vadji – tshirt
Chris Stillwell – tshirt
Tim Ferrer – $50 gift certificate to CompUSA
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April
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"Architectural Overview of the Apache Geronimo Project,"
presented by Jeremy Boynes, CTO, Gluecode Software.
Approximately 46 people attended the meeting at our new home,
Sun Microsystems, 16000 Dallas Parkway.
One new member joined, and
three others will be contacted about their requests to join.
Matthew Harrington, Director of Marketing Development,
gave us a brief presentation on
Ajilon (tonight's meeting sponsor).
Ajilon
also provided the group with a first class set of
drawing giveaways — including 3 DVD players.
Handouts were provided by
Angela L. Hardemon,
Senior Technical Recruiting Manager at
Ajilon.
She can be contacted at (972) 263-8450.
Announcements:
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Lisa Danzer, Technology Manager for Sun,
welcomed us to Sun's Dallas North Dallas office.
She also solicited link suggestions for kids.
The links should be related to science, math, or technology, and
include games or something that would be intriguing to young people.
Link suggestions can be sent directly to
Lisa.
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Crayton Harrison, a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, attended
this month's JavaMUG meeting.
He was interested in speaking to JavaMUG techies who are unemployed,
underemployed, or have recently been unemployed.
Specifically, he is wanting to speak with people who have been through
some type of retraining or upgrading of skills.
He wants to know if it is helping them find jobs.
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The Jobs Corner is a new addition to our monthly meeting.
This month, Steve Davidson, Vice President of JavaMUG, presented
job openings for the Jobs Corner.
Prizes:
DVD Player (3) – Doug Warren, Scott Kirkland, Daniel Brookshier
J2EE Web Services book – Robert Pearson
Personal CD Player (2) – Erik Weibust, Bill Ott
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May
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"Implementing Generics from JDK 5.0,"
presented by Jim Bender, Recursion Software, Inc.
Second meeting at our new home, Sun Microsystems, 16000 Dallas Parkway.
Approximately 50 people attended the meeting; three membership applications were received at the meeting,
but two of them came from existing members.
Prizes:
GJL copy – Chul Jeon
GJL copy – John Erway
GJL copy – Tim Ferrer
GJL copy – Jim Mathis
GJL copy – Terri Vajdi
Agile Java book – Jim Bao (? on spelling)
IPOD Shuffle – Po Chuan Linn
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June
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"Using Code Metrics for Targeted Code Refactoring,"
presented by Andrew Glover, Vanward Technologies.
Abstract/Bio
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July
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"Pragmatic approach to interconnected requirements, analysis and design with UML,"
presented by Bryan Plaster, Valtech.
Abstract/Bio
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August
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"Agile Software Development,"
presented by Venkat Subramaniam, Agile Developer, Inc.
Abstract/Bio
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October
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"EJB 3 Persistence,"
presented by Patrick Linskey, SolarMetric.
Abstract/Bio
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November
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"The End Game for Vendor Lock-In?,"
presented by Tom Adelstein.
Abstract/Bio
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December
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"Projects Peabody and Glassfish,"
presented by Sun Microsystems Technology Evangelist.
Abstract/Bio
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2004
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January
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Daniel Brookshier, current president of JavaMUG, presented "JXTA 101."
Abstract/Bio
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March
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"Code Generation with XDoclet," presented by Craig Walls.
Abstract/Bio
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April
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"Pragmatic Mock Objects," presented by Dave Thomas.
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May
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"Professional Open Source and the Future of JBoss," presented by Marc Fleury.
Abstract/Bio
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June
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"Introduction to Spring," presented by Bruce Tate.
Abstract/Bio
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August
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"Building Cutting Edge Applications with Business Rules Technology," presented by James Owen.
Abstract/Bio
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September
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"Software Development Challenges for the 21st Century,"
presented by Steven Teleki.
Abstract/Bio
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October
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"The Case for SoA and a Sample 'Killer' App,"
presented by Vic Cekvenich.
Abstract/Bio
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2003
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April
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Tom McGraw,
Delphi Consultants,
spoke on "Open Source Initiatives."
Abstract/Bio
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May
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Ron Hitchens, Ronsoft Technologies, presented "Java NIO."
Abstract/Bio
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June
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Derek Lane, Gunslinger Software, spoke on
"The New Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
JSR-52."
Abstract/Bio
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July
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Michael Nash presented "The Keel Meta Framework."
Abstract/Bio
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September
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Bruce Tate spoke on "Java Persistence Frameworks."
Abstract/Bio
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October
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Stanley J. Sewall spoke on "Model Driven Architecture (MDA)."
Abstract/Bio
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November
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Glenn Vanderburg spoke on "New Language Features in Java 1.5."
Abstract/Bio
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2002
- July
- Eric
S. Raymond, "Open Source" computer software evangelist, spoke at a joint session with the local Unix and Linux
groups. A terrific time was had by all, and the presentation was
straight out of his famous book, The
Cathedral and the Bazaar.
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2001
- December
- November
- October
- Mr. Kiran Jethwa, Product Manager at PointBase
talked on JDBC + SQL + J2ME + XML + SYNCHRONIZATION = KILLER APPS! Details
- September
- Greg Wadley, a Senior Consulting IT
Specialist at IBM
talked on Building a Command Framework for JMS. Details
- August
- July
- June
- David Hecksel, Senior Java Architect at
Sun, and Kenn Busse from AT&T Wireless talked on
"Applying an Architecture-Centric, Iterative
Development Process for the Java Platform at AT&T Wireless,
a Java Technology-Based Nationwide Retail Solution". David
and Kenn just gave this talk at JavaOne. Details
- May
- Sarita Kadaveru, Systems Engineer with Object Design,
a division of eXcelon Corporation, talked on Building Scalable App Server Solutions.
The talk focused on Javlin,
an EJB Data Cache Manager that dynamically caches database data
in the middle tier. Details
- April
- Billy
Barron, a Principal Java/OO Consultant for Delphi
Consultants, LLC, talked on How Java Threading Works. His
presentation foils can be found here.
The meeting was sponsored by Delphi Consultants, LLC, a
recognized leader in the J2EE environment, whose Java
Practice has varied experience across many industries including
telecom, hi-tech manufacturing, entertainment, academia, retail,
transportation, banking, and other financial institutions. For more
information, contact Jackie Van Over at
214-696-6224, x110. Details
- March
- Rock Howard, CTO of
Tower Technology Corporation, gave a presentation on Java server
application performance issues. At the end of his
presentation, Mr. Howard talked about Tower’s
approach to solving performance problems via the
TowerJ
JVM. The talk concluded with a Q&A period. The meeting was
sponsored by Touchstone
Solutions, a technical recruiting and staffing firm specializing
in Information Technology staffing solutions. For information about
Touchstone Solutions, call 972-673-0933. Details
- February
- Craig Larman, Director,
Process and Methodology, at Valtech, spoke on Patterns for
EJB. For a door prize, Valtech gave away a seat in
their "Advanced Java & Object Design" class of value $2195.00.
It is a five day course that can be taken during the year 2001.
The meeting was sponsored by Valtech, an international consulting
group specializing in e-business technologies. For
more information about Valtech, call 972-789-6507. Details
- January
- James Duncan Davidson, a
Senior Staff Engineer at Sun
Microsystems, talked on Open Source Java Platform Based Software
and Sun. James' presentations slides can be found here.
The meeting was sponsored by ThinkSpark,
formerly known as Database Consultants, whose database consulting,
database administration, and system integration services are capable
of producing a valuable range of business solutions. For more
information, contact Michael
Tischler at 972-392-0955. Details
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2000
- December
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The meeting was canceled due to the weather. The talk will be rescheduled for
sometime next year when the presenter is available. Craig Larman,
Director, Process and Methodology, at Valtech, was to speak on Patterns for
EJB. For a door prize, Valtech was to give away a seat
in their "Advanced Java & Object Design" class of
value $2195.00. It is a five day course that can be taken during
the year 2001. The meeting was to be sponsored by Valtech,
an international consulting group specializing in e-business
technologies. For more information about Valtech,
call 972-789-6507.
- November
- Chuck Ford, a Java Consultant
for Delphi
Consultants LLC, spoke on Servlet Unit Testing with JUnit.
The meeting was sponsored by Gemstone Systems, developers of Gemstone/J,
the Adaptable J2EE Platform for developing high-end B2B sites. For
more information, contact Stan Melnick at 972-733-6805.
- October
- Matthew Robold, a technical
consultant and internet applications developer at Macromedia,
spoke on using Macromedia's new product Dreamweaver
UltraDev for visually creating Java Server Pages. The meeting
was sponsored by Populi,
the Web Talent Incubator. For more information, contact Holly Landry
at 972-774-1211 x109.
- September
- Dr.
Ron Norman of TogetherSoft
talked about UML using their Together/J product. Dr. Norman's
presentations slides can be found here.
The meeting was sponsored by edaption solutions, inc. who
provides project based consulting services to
implement computing solutions for strategic business processes
using open internet technologies. For more information, contact Tona Morgan at 877-533-2785.
- September 27 — A joint meeting
of the Dallas ColdFusion User Group (DFWCFUG)
and the JavaMUG was held. A presentation on Allaire’s JRun, an
application server based on the Java 2 Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) specifications, was given by Paul
Reilly, an engineer on the Allaire JRun development
team. His presentation foils can be found here.
The meeting was sponsored by Matrix Resources who provided pizza
and drinks for everyone plus a $100 American Express
gift check given away as a door prize.
- August
- James Bielak and Bill
Lancaster, two local java developers, spoke on "eCommerce
and InterBase". The talk described a full cycle of development for
a open source Ecommerce package. The presentation slides can be
found here. The meeting was sponsored by RealTime
Staffing and Consulting, Inc. who specializes in the placement
of experienced IT professionals. For more information, contact Jeremy Holden
at 972-392-4000.
- July
- June
- Matt McGinty of Unify talked about
Web Applications as defined by the new Java Servlet 2.2
Specification, and on Tag Extensions as defined by the new JSP
1.1 Specification. Both topics were demonstrated using ServletExec 3.0.
The meeting was sponsored by Ajilon
(formerly IMI Systems), a premier provider of information technologies
services. For more information, contact Gary Bell at
214-263-8450 x161.
- May
- NO SHOW. David Marshall of Sterling
Software was to talk about Enterprise Java Bean development
and the direction and challenges of component based design using
EJB. Instead, members discussed how to find a Java job and the value
of certification. Doug Witmer gave an impromptu talk about EJBs.
An outline of his talk is here.
- April
- Ravikant Iyer of Cysive, Inc.,
premier builders of e-business architectures, will be presenting.
Cysive will also be sponsoring the meeting and offering two fabulous
door prizes: a palm pilot and a $150 Amazon gift certificate! Members
need to provide a business card to participate in the drawing. The
presentation foils are here.
- March
- February
- January
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1999
- December
- November
- Billy Barron from Delphi
Consultants, LLC gave a detailed technical presentation on Java
network programming with TCP/IP sockets. His presentation foils are here. Also, the election of next year's
JavaMUG officers were held.
- October 13,25
- Leonard Slipp from KL Group
talked about the JProbe Profiler and JProbe Memory Debugger
tools. Also, voter registration was held before the meeting
and registered members voted on the Constitution &
By-laws.
- James Duncan Davidson from SunSoft spoke
on the Servlet API. Jason Hunter, author of Java Servlets
(O'Reilly), participated in the Q&A session.
- September
- Jim Burke and Richard Harris from Sun
Microsystems, Austin, talked about Jini and gave a demo
involving numerous peripherals.
- Robert Korngiebel from Forte talked about SynerJ,
a Java IDE and application server.
- August
- Jason Jonas from Sapien Consulting, a
consulting and education partner with BEA Systems,
gave an overview technical presentation on Enterprise Java Beans.
His PowerPoint presentation foils are here.
- Jim Burke gave a brief overview of Jini
and JavaSpaces.
- July
- Rich Drechsler from Cloudscape
presented the Cloudscape OODBMS. His PowerPoint
presentation foils are here.
- Damon Clinkscales presented the Command
Design Patterns. His PowerPoint presentation foils are here.
- June 9, 29
- May
- April
- March - no meeting
- February - no meeting
- January - Alice Chen of Oracle
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1998
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1997
- December - Unknown - probably cancelled?
- November - "Inner Classes" by Kevin Lewis of ObjectSpace
- October
Note this was the first meeting at JC Penney - "Select
Enterprise" by Select Software
- Internationalization by I2
- September
- August - "Web Application Platform" by SilverStream
- July - Object Design Database by ODI
- June - Kawa by Tek Tools
- May - BuilderXessory (GUI Builder) by ICS
- April - SuperScape - Java and Virtual Reality. See here
- March - Java Workshop by Israel Hilerio of Sun
- February - Voyager by
Graham Glass of ObjectSpace
- January
- Due to a snow storm, this meeting was
delayed one week
- SuperMail by Arun Rao of Lattice Systems
(renamed Digerati
Corporation)
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1996
- December - JavaBeans by Glenn Vanderburg of Business
Works (now of Delphi
Consultants
- November - Supercede 1.0 by Bill Wilkinson of
Asymetrix (now of SuperCede)
- October - Jamba (a software authoring tool)
- September
- Native Methods was scheduled, but this was
probably the meeting where the presenter did not show
and Billy Barron of UTD
(later of Delphi
Consultants)spoke on JDBC. If not, it was inOctober.
October makes more sense from a date point of view, but
the Jambapresentation seems familiar whereas this one
doesn't
- August - no meeting
- July
- Scott Carpenter of Rockwellpresented on
JavaOne
- Informal JavaMUG renamed Talk-Java/Drink-Java
- First TJ-DJ meeting in Las Colinas
- June
- No formal meeting
- First informal JavaMUG at Borders
- May - James Davidson then of the Synapse Group (now
at JavaSoft)
spoke about Server-Side Java (this was about the hotel res system)
- April - Free for all
- March - JavaScript tutorial by Greg Graham (NorTel?)
- Febuary
- Glenn Vanderburg of UT Dallas
(now of Delphi
Consultants) spoke on the Java Security Model
- This meeting was on Tuesday due to
Valentine's Day
- January
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1995
- December - Java-based GIS (Geographical Information
Systems) by August & Associates
- First meeting in the PC training lab at UTD - home for next 2
years
- November
- Only meeting in the UTD UNIX lab
- Organizational meeting
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