J2EE-based Portal architectures! Meeting 10/15

["Burr Sutter" <sutter@bravepoint.com>]

This month's meeting will be tomorrow, Oct 15th from 7 to 9:30  PM. This
month we'll be at the Crown Plaza Ravinia hotel (directly  beside our old
meeting location) off of Ashford Dunwoody.

We were trying to organize a .NET vs J2EE shootout but October was not
convenient for all the combatants. We hope to have it in January instead.

This month our focus is on portal architectures that allow the J2EE
developer to add personalization, rules processing, workflow, layout and
content management to their web applications.  We will have multiple vendors
demonstrate how to create a "portlet" and drop it into a personlizable
layout.

Current participating vendors include:
* BEA (a top level sponsor of AJUG) portal technologies running on the BEA
application server.
* ClearNova - a local startup building a portal architecture based on J2EE
and open-source technologies
* Novell - J2EE-based (EARs, WARs) portal able to run on a variety of J2EE
compliant application servers.


Announcements:
Don't miss out on the upcoming Atlanta Java Software Symposium on November
15-17th.   You will have the opportunity to hear presentations from Erik
Hatcher, co-author of Java Development with Ant, Rick Hightower, author of
Applying XP to the J2EE, Bruce Tate, author of the best seller, "Bitter
 Java" and many more..Go to www.completeprogrammer.net/atlanta2002 for
details.  There is special pricing available for all AJUG members thru
10/18th.

Plus, the Java Certification Study Group plans to meet around 9:00 pm in the
Crown Plaza lounge.

As always we'd like to thank our sponsors that pay for the facilities that
we use.  BravePoint (www.bravepoint.com), BEA (www.bea.com) and Inflow
(www.inflow.com).

See ya'll there!

Burr
AJUG Program Chair and President