September 27th, 2011 Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

Welcome Austin Java Users Group 10 Years Strong!

Decade of Sponsors

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2605 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug (1532 active members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s new in the Java world? AustinJUG represented at the Door64 Austin Tech Conference EclipseCon 2012 Call for Papers Now Open until 11/11/11, Reston, VA, March Innovation, Best Practices, Open Source Projects, Cool Stuff,… Glassfish 4 builds available (Java EE 7, shared code with Weblogic) JBoss AS7 available NASA World Wind Ported to Android O’Reilly Android Open Conference, October 9-11, 2011, San Francisco JavaOne – October 2-6, San Francisco (Sting and Tom Petty!) JavaFX installer bundled with future versions of Java 7? Liquid Robotics (James Gosling’s new company) Pacific Crossing Challenge for Wave Glider Robots

Javascript Browser Performance Based on reports, IE 6 is 16 times slower than Firefox 3.5

Previously 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 6  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

Suggested Topics  GIS based (OpenMap, Google Maps, ESRI)  Maven  Ivy and other dependency managers  Fork join  Scala  JavaEE 6  JBOSS Weld  ServiceMix  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

Suggestions and Speaker Volunteers!

Thanks Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector every month! Thanks to Mitch Fincher for providing the nametags & friendly greetings

After Meeting Networking BJ'S Restaurant & Brewery

Networking and Fun New Place! BJs

Introduction to Git and git-svn by Paul Gier

Update on DTRules an Open-Source, Java-Based Rules Engine and Generating Rules Sets with Niyum by Paul Snow