March 31st, 2009 Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

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

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2294 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members

Membership Growth 180/year members 284/year jobs

What’s new in the Java world? Pending Purchase of Sun by IBM NetBeans 6.7 Beta and 6.5.1 JDK 1.6_13 JavaFX 1.1 Coding Challenge Win $25K, $10K, $5K SwingX 0.9.6 Released EclipseCon 2009 New NetBeans 6.5 API Book Coming JavaOne 2009

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XML to the Database and Back by Rob Ratcliff