January 26 th, 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 (2428 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members (1375 active members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s New in the Java World? NetBeans 6.8 Released Support for JEE 6, Restful WS, JavaFX 1.2.1, Full PHP support, improved support for Maven, Ruby, Groovy and C/C++ Code completion for SQL editor Java 1.6_18 released – performance improvements, faster startup, faster jar creation, rendering improvements, lots of bug fixes, enhancements to VisualVM and JavaDB Glassfish and OpenESB 2.2 released in December

Oracle Deal Goes Through

Snorcle? Where else would Duke need a snorcle, but in an aquarium visiting a glassfish? aquariumglassfish

What’s New in the Java World Oracle World – September 19 th, 2010 JavaOne 2010? Larry Ellison to hold Sun/Oracle strategy update tomorrow at 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM PST

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

Thanks Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector every month! Thanks to Mabel Willie 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

Cassandra Distributed Database Stu Hood