April 27th, 2010 Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

Welcome Austin Java Users Group

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2451 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members (1399 active members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s New in the Java World? NetBeans 6.9Beta Released – OSGI interoperability, JDK 1.6 supported only, JavaFX 1.3, Spring 3.0, CDI – Summer 2010 release James Gosling leaves Oracle IBM chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for their cross-brand appliance initiatives JavaFX enhanced support for UI controls, CSS skinning, and programmatic layout, performance improvements Eclipse Announces New SOA Initiative OSGi is too complex?OSGi is too complex

Certification Interest for Java Programmer, Developer or others? Mike Forsberg –

Thanks Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector every month! Thanks to Mabel Willy and Mitch Fincher for providing the nametags and greetings

Suggested Topics Java rules engines –drools, commercial packages GWT DSL Android development/J2ME GIS based (OpenMap, Google Maps, ESRI) Google App Engine Maven Ivy and other dependency managers Fork join Scala JavaEE 5 JBOSS Weld Performance tuning, scalability, pitfalls, lessons learned, patterns Spring webflow Best practices on continuous integration Deployment Java testing tools (JMeter, Junit, etc) UI based testing – thick client, web client Java7 Grails Java3D/JOGL Erlang

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Networking and Fun

Leveraging your multi-core systems with Fork-Join David Sheth

Better Software with Java and Flex James Ward