March 30th, 2010 Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic 1

Austin Java Users Group Welcome Austin Java Users Group 705 members Dennis Sosnoski released a binary XML binding called JIBX Windows, Mac OS X, Other unixes How many are using JDK 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4? Who is doing: Swing SWT EJB Servlet JSP JDBC Web Services CORBA 2

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2438 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members (1392 active members on the mailing list) 3

Membership Growth

What’s New in the Java World? NetBeans 6.9M1 Released – OSGI interoperability, JDK 1.6 supported only – Summer 2010 release eclipsecon 2010 – March 22nd – 25th in Santa Clara, Ca. (Colocated with OSGi DevCon 2010) – anybody go? TheServerSide Java Symposium 2010, March 17-19 (James Gosling is keynote speaker) – anybody go? JavaOne Call for Papers closed! Conference part of Oracle World September 19-23 – anybody going? News from Oracle announcements – any more news? 5

Certification Interest for Java Programmer, Developer or others? Mike Forsberg – bigmike@io.com

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

Contact the Board with Suggestions austinjug_board@yahoogroups.com 9

Networking and Fun 10

Networking and Fun 11

Overview of Austin Job Market

REST Web Services Support in Java EE 6 and Spring 3.0 Srini Penchikala 13