March 26th, 2013 #austinjug Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

Welcome Austin Java Users Group 12 Years Strong!

Last Decade of Sponsors

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2703 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug (1639 active members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s new in the Java world? News from SXSW? AustinJUG joins JCP (as part of the adopt a JSR program) Submit topics for JavaOne 2013 by Friday, April 12th Upgrade to Java 7 release 17 for latest fix Pwn2Own: IE10, Firefox, Chrome, Adobe Reader & Flash, Java hacks land $500k Rackspace acquires MongoDB Gradle Usage? (NetBeans plug-in available) EclilpseCon this week

Adopt a JSR This program is intended to encourage JUG members Get involved in a Java Specification Request (JSR) To evangelize that JSR to their JUG and the wider Java community in order to increase grass roots participation JSRs cover all aspects of the Java ecosystem such as: New Date and Time API coming into Java 8 The latest JavaEE 7 APIs for the cloud Other

Joining JCP Allows Your JUG and all of your members to participate in JSRs You’ll have a voting influence Voting is coming up! Primary Contact Information becomes important Democratically relay voting to the JUG members Even more benefits!

Adopt a JSR Java API for Temporary Caching 1.0 (JSR 107) Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0 (JSR 236) Java Persistence API 2.1 (JSR 338) Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.0Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.0 (JSR 339) Servlet 3.1 (JSR 340) Expression Language 3.0 (JSR 341) Java Message Service 2.0Java Message Service 2.0 (JSR 343) JavaServer Faces 2.2JavaServer Faces 2.2 (JSR 344) Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 (JSR 345) Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1 (JSR 346) Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR 349) Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 (JSR 352) Java API for JSON Processing 1.0Java API for JSON Processing 1.0 (JSR 353) Java API for WebSocket 1.0Java API for WebSocket 1.0 (JSR 356) Java Transaction API 1.2 (JSR 907)

Suggestions and Speaker Volunteers!

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

After Meeting Networking BJ'S Restaurant & Brewery

Networking and Fun New Place! BJs

Solve the Cross-Cloud Conundrum with jclouds by Everett Toews