January 31st, 2012 Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

Welcome Austin Java Users Group 11 Years Strong!

Decade of Sponsors

Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2629 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug (1557 active members on the mailing list)

Membership Growth

What’s new in the Java world? Java 7 Update 2 released – new HostSpot JVM improves reliability and performance, support for Solaris 11 & Firefox 5, JavaFX included, Non-blocking installation in browser of JRE & JavaFX, faster startup, broke out samples and demos bundle EclipseCon Reston, VA, March Innovation, Best Practices, Open Source Projects, Cool Stuff,… NetBeans 7.1 – JavaFX support, batch refactoring, UI Debugger for Swing and JavaFX, support for GF and Weblogic 12c, NB platform visual window layout designer Java 1.6_30 released – Updated JVisualVM, support for RHEL 6, improved performance and stability JavaFX for Windows and JavaFX 2.1 dev preview released for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux!

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

Java EE 6 = Less Code + More Power by Arun Gupta