The Java Users Group has finally found its new home at the Nortel Gateway Center thanks to the generous help of Nortel and in particular Todd Hagstrom. Keep an eye on the website www.trijug.org and the mailing list for updated sets of directions and more information. The August meeting will be held Thursday August 12th with Andy Oliver discussing various aspects of JBoss. As usual the meeting starts at 7:00pm, and the refreshments start at 6:30pm. Unfortunately, we could not keep our standard date for the August meeting, but thanks to Andy Oliver and Nortel's help rescheduling the meeting is close to our standard date (3rd Monday). Also, this rescheduling was only needed for August during our transition phase to the new meeting hall.
I would also like to thank everyone who helped out on the process of getting the new meeting hall (as I did at the July meeting) regardless of whether your particular suggestion was taken or not. When a minor crisis arises, it is good to know that our group has a considerable number of members who are looking out for us. :-) As for specific directions, the ones I give are very rough so just look for more updates on the list and website. If you are on I-40 take the Davis Drive exit. I think you take a left on Davis Drive after exiting I-40, but regardless you are looking for the NC-54/Davis Drive intersection. NC-54 is very close to the intersection of Davis Drive and I-40. Once at the NC-54 intersection, take a left and get on NC-54. Then after that take a left at the next traffic light which will put you in the Nortel complex. After that you are looking for the "Gateway Center". As for the particulars of the talk, here is Andy Oliver's bio and abstract. Hope to see you there, Bill Gooding Bio Andrew Oliver is a professional open source developer with JBoss, Inc. He is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Andy was very fortunate to get involved with the TriJUG and together which JUG member Marc Johnson founded POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi , an API for reading and writing Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, OLE 2 Compound Documents, etc.) using pure Java. While president of the JUG, Andy was fortunate enough to meet Marc Fleury (CEO JBoss, Inc) at the J2EE Container Shootout http://trijug.org/meetinginfo.jsp?date=3D2002-09-2 After Andy was done insulting Marc and telling him all of the things he thought was wrong with J2EE and JBoss, Marc offered Andy a job. Andy's worked for JBoss, Inc. first as a contractor for nearly a year before becoming an employee in October of 2003. At JBoss, Andy works his dream job doing open source development, and teaching/consulting with people in the fine art of open source. Andy leads the JBossMail project http://jboss.org/products/mailservices Synopsis Title: All the stuff you're doing wrong in your J2EE/JBoss application * You've got class cast exceptions at startup * Your application only scales to 10 concurrent users and then gets slow * You want to use CMP, but gosh darn it, its so slow (you messed it up) * You want to package your application to allow maximum hot-deployability but all you manage to do is get class cast exceptions * Commit Option means what exactly? * Just what the heck IS a dynamic proxy? * How do classloaders work? * The JMX Console....that's secure....how? * How do you impose arbitrary security rules outside of your code? Do these questions burn in the back of your mind? Does this sound kinda like you? In about 1.5 hours we will cram as much of the full Raleigh JBoss Advanced Training http://jboss.org/services/training/schedule#raleigh-adv as possible. You'll know all sorts of configuration and packaging issues. While we'll focus on JBoss, many of these concepts have general applicability in Java (Classloaders, dynamic proxies, etc.). As usual, it'll be about as much comedy show as hard core technology. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
