AJUG Meeting - June 19, 7pm

["Tom Elrod" <telrod@e2technologies.net>]

Hello everyone.  This month's meeting will be Tuesday, June 19 from 7 - 9:30
pm.  The meeting will be held at the Ravinia Conference Center.  See
http://www.ajug.org/meetings/ for directions and a map).

This month we will be holding our second open forum meeting. Most meetings
we hear presentations about what other people in the industry are doing with
Java. This month we want to hear what you are doing with Java. This will be
a chance for you to hear about what you peers are doing, what works for them
and what doesn't. This is also an opportunity to speak your mind about
technologies and products you are using.  The last open forum meeting was
very successful and we expect this one to be just as good (or better :)

We have tallied the voting for which topics you would like to see covered.
The results are as follows:

53 - XML transports (SOAP, JAXM, ebXML, JMS)
47 - Java 2 SDK - 1.4.0 (what's new and is it worth moving to it)
33 - Servlet 2.3 and Tomcat (what it gets you)
21 - Performance (Hotspot, Profilers, fastest JDK/servers)
21 - IDE's (JBuilder, Visual Age, Visual Cafe, Kawa, emacs)
19 - Security (SSL, JSSE)
11 - Media and imaging (JMF, Java2D)
6 - JavaOne (should you have gone?)

Thanks to all those that completed the survey.

The format that we plan on following is for each topic, start with a short
case study or article. From there we will open the floor for comments and
questions. We will probably not get to all the topics, but will cover them
in order listed above.  We will moderate the discussion so that we can stay
on track, but are looking forward to having a fun and informative meeting.

We would like to thank our sponsors - Accenture (www.accenture.com),
Bluestone www.bluestone.com), Pencom (www.pencom.com), and TogetherSoft
(www.togethersoft.com) for supporting AJUG and the Atlanta Java community.

If you are thinking about making a job move, or just want to get an idea of
what the job market is looking like, please visit our job postings on the
AJUG sits (http://www.ajug.org/jobs/).

Please tell your co-workers and fellow Java enthusiasts.

As always, I hope to see you there.

-Tom

AJUG Program Chair
program@ajug.org