AJUG Meeting announcement and newsletter

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

Happy Holidays!



This month's meeting will be Tuesday Dec 17th from 7 to 9:30 PM.

Our meeting location for this month will be at the Wyndham Garden Hotel at
the corner of Hammond Drive and Barfield.



We welcome any job announcements that hiring managers wish to make.



This month's topic is JUnit

Unit testing is broadly described as the verification of the observable
behavior of a programmatic unit. A set of one or more inputs are applied to
the unit and the output is verified in each case. In Java and other OO
languages, the unit is the class. Historically, due to lack of standards the
approach to unit testing for typical Java projects has been ad-hoc. With the
emergence of JUnit, the de-facto standard unit testing framework for Java
comes the opportunity to formalize the approach.



The presentation provides an overview of the JUnit framework, along with
suggestions as to how and when to write and run tests.



Speaker Bio

Jason Chambers is the Advisory Developer for delta.com.



Summary of 2002:

This year we have had many exciting presentations from local developers as
well as industry leading vendor representatives. Topics such as Struts,
JBoss, Ant, Application Servers, Open Source and Web Services proved to be
very popular and well attended.  The AJUG Board is always looking for ways
to meet the needs of the local Java user community. Any suggestions on
meeting topics, locations or completely new offerings beyond our monthly
meetings are always welcome.



Planning for 2003:

Possible topics (feel free to send in any new idea)

- XForms

- JDO

- OJB

- EJB Design Patterns

- Jini

- JavaSpaces

- JXTA

- IntelliJ

- Eclipse

- Portlets - JSR 168

- New stuff in the Web Services space

- Latest JDK 1.4+ tips and tricks

- SWT

- JSP & Servlet Programming Tips and Design Patterns

- J2ME

- J2EE vs .NET

- JCA

- Effective Java programming techniques

- Jakarta Overview:  Summary of what is new and cool open source

- Newbie Night: How to break into the Java development market.

- Guru Night: What does the senior developer/architect need to know?

- Sonic Software with JMS and Advanced Web Services

- SolarMetric with JDO



Your feedback is always appreciated and helps us determine how best to
schedule our meeting topics and presenters.



Thank You,

Burr

AJUG President and Program Chair