AJUG Meeting - August 21, 7pm

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

Hello everyone.  This month's meeting will be next Tuesday, August 21st from
7 - 9:30
pm.  The meeting will be held at the Ravinia Conference Center (back at our
normal location).  See http://www.ajug.org/meetings/ for directions and a
map).

Before we get into the presentations for this month, I would like to invite
anyone working J2ME (client applications in particular) to join us in
preparing for our open forum meeting in October.  We would like to have
someone do a short presentation (10 -15 minutes) on a project that they
might be doing in J2ME as part of our 'Presenting Java' theme for the
meeting.  For more information, please contact Steve Harper
(steve_harper@nas.adp.com) for more information.

We would also like to ask everyone that has not filled out our location
survey to take a minute to do so (http://www.ajug.org/LocationSurvey2.html).
You'll find more information as to why we are considering moving on the
survey page.

The presentation details are as follows:

Using Reflection to Automatically Map Objects to a Database
by John M. Hammer, Internet Security Systems

Java reflection can be used to discover the attributes of an object and then
automatically generate the SQL statements needed to insert, update, and
delete objects in a database. This presentation describes in detail how a
reflective persistence manager is implemented.

John M. Hammer is currently an engineering manager at Internet Security
Systems. He has worked on a variety of high technology research and
development positions in the Atlanta area. He graduated from the University
of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.


Overview of J2EE Version 1.3
by Tad Stephens, Principal System Engineer for BEA

Tad Stephens will give an overview of the upcoming J2EE version 1.3 suite
and the various component specifications. He will include updates on JSP,
Servlets, JDBC, RMI, and EJB 2.0, as well as an overview of new features
such as Message-driven beans (MDB), the J2EE Connector Architecture (J2EE
CA), Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), the Java Management interface (JMX)
and others. He will also present a brief overview of BEA's WebLogic Server
6.1, which includes implementations of draft versions for several components
of the J2EE version 1.3 specification.

Tad is a software architect with over 10 years of distributed computing
experience covering a broad range of technologies, including DCE, CORBA,
MOM, and J2EE, and has worked with WebLogic Server and the WebLogic-based
suite of products for over 3 years.  Prior to joining the company WebLogic
prior to its acquisition by BEA, he worked for a software company in Atlanta
building Internet banking and financial services applications based on CORBA
and Tuxedo, BEA's distributed transaction processing monitor. Tad also has
extensive experience with other distributed technologies such as DCE and
IBM's distributed transaction processing and messaging solutions.


We would like to thank our sponsors - Accenture (www.accenture.com), BEA
Systems (www.bea.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.

Hope you'll be able to make it.

-Tom

AJUG Program Chair
program@ajug.org