1. March 2 nd, 2010 Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic

2. Welcome Austin Java Users Group

3. Announcements Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2432 active members on the mailing list) Announcements from Members (1382 active members on the mailing list)

4. Membership Growth

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

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

7. Thanks Thanks to Craig Hunt for bringing the projector every month! Thanks to Mabel Willy and Mitch Fincher for providing the nametags and greetings

8. 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

9. Contact the Board with Suggestions austinjug_board@yahoogroups.com

10. Networking and Fun

12. JSR 299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for the JavaTM EE Norman Richards