This messsage is both a public invitation to the first Java RMI Community Meeting, and a public Call for Speaking Proposals. The Java RMI Community Meeting ------------------------------ The Java RMI Community Meeting is an opportunity for RMI users (as well as the Sun RMI engineers) to get together, to share advanced techniques and architectures, and to learn about the future directions and goals of RMI. With the emergence of Jini as a serious superstructure built with RMI, and with the anticipated additions to Java RMI such as security and custom references, it feels like there's a "maturity critical mass" building up behind RMI technology. The meeting will be a 2-day meeting of RMI developers, for RMI developers, discussing important practical and theoretical topics of this maturing technology. The content chairpersons are Sun's Ann Wollrath and DevelopMentor's Stu Halloway. They will be selecting the topics to be presented. Mark Hodapp, the RMI engineering manager, and 2 or 3 more RMI engineers will be attending and/or speaking. Rickard Oberg has indicated that he will speak and plans to attend. Ted Neward from DevelopMentor and myself (Brian Maso) will also be there, as well as many other people who's names you will recognize from the RMI community. I invite anyone with a serious interest in Java RMI to attend, learn stuff and to rub elbows with your peers. The first Java RMI Community Meeting will be the third week of March, 2001, in the L.A./Orange County area. Exact dates (either 19th-20th or 22nd-23d) and the exact venue will be announced shortly. The registration fee is being kept deliberately low - probably about US$300.00 - because the meeting is not primarily a money-making venture. Limited space is being reserved for no more than 300 attendees. A registration page and website will be available soon. (If you want to guarantee your space immediately, please e-mail directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Please address any further questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions will be answered as promptly as possible. Call for Speaking Proposals --------------------------- You are also invited to submit speaking proposals to be presented along with the speakers/topics already mentioned above. There is room for 10-15 talks of length 60-90 minutes. The RMI community is interested in hearing what you have to say about your experience with/design ideas for/limitations of RMI. Sample topics include: RMI internals and protocols; design and implementation techniques; developing, debugging and profiling RMI applciations; and using RMI or RMI-based tools in an enterprise system, which basically includes any techniques targeted toward one of the 5 cardinal enterprise system properties: security, maintainability, reliability, availability and scalability. Ann Wollrath and Stu Halloway will be selecting from amongst the proposals. Please send any proposals, including abstract (500 words or less) and a speaker bio to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plain text, HTML, StarOffice, PDF and MS Word are all acceptable formats. 1-Day RMI University -------------------- You may have the opportunity to attend a 1-day "RMI University" prior to the Java RMI Community Meeting. Provided there is sufficient interest, a 1-day RMI University will be held one day prior to the Java RMI Community Meeting. The RMI University is an intensive tutorial and review of RMI, appropriate for Java developers who are interested in RMI but who have not had wide-ranging experience with this technology. Though not an integral part of the Java RMI Community Meeting, the RMI University will be held at the same location as the Community Meeting and will give new- to intermediate-level RMI developers a large "boost" in technical proficiency and understanding, and will make the advanced topics discussed during the following 2 days at the Java RMI Community Meeting much more accessible. If there is sufficient interest, the RMI University will be presented by the very capable instructors of DevelopMentor (http://www.develop.com). If you are interested in the 1-day RMI University, please send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information and to register your interest. Note that whether or not the RMI University will be presented is contingent upon sufficient attendance. Disclaimers ----------- The Java RMI Community Meeting is brought to you by Blumenfeld & Maso, Inc., a small software consulting company dedicated to Java technology. Blumenfeld & Maso is bringing you this community meeting because, basically, no one else has stepped forward to do it. This meeting is technically not endorsed by Sun or any other entity. Please remember that Java is a trademark of Sun. Brian Maso =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
