1. March 30th, 2010
Thanks to Mike Perez and Chris Ritchie for the graphic 1

2. 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 2

3. Announcements
Jobs (Who has them, who wants one?) groups.yahoo.com/group/austinjug_jobs (2438 active members on the mailing list)
Announcements from Members (1392 active members on the mailing list) 3

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 22nd – 25th in Santa Clara, Ca. (Colocated with OSGi DevCon 2010) – anybody go?
TheServerSide Java Symposium 2010, March (James Gosling is keynote speaker) – anybody go?
JavaOne Call for Papers closed! Conference part of Oracle World September – anybody going?
News from Oracle announcements – any more news? 5

6. Certification Interest for Java Programmer, Developer or others?
Mike Forsberg –

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 9

10. Networking and Fun 10

11. Networking and Fun 11

12. Overview of Austin Job Market

13. REST Web Services Support in Java EE 6 and Spring 3.0
Srini Penchikala 13