AJUG Tonight - April 15th

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

Welcome back from Spring Break!

Title: Object Relational Mapping with OJB

NOTE: Location Change! We are now at Holiday Inn Select
4386 CHAMBLEE-DUNWOODY RD, ATLANTA, GA  30341 -
(770) 457-6363. Exit 30 - one exit east of Ashford-Dunwoody. We will have
better parking and meeting room facilities!!!

For any serious production application, interacting with a relational
database is unavoidable. This is no exception for those applications built
on J2SE and J2EE technologies. In the past, writing SQL to create, query,
update and delete application data was a responsibility of the development
team. However, in the past several years, Object-to-Relational Mapping (ORM)
frameworks have become increasing popular as companies take the build versus
buy decision more serious. After all, unless you are in the persistence
business, you should be focusing more and more resources on the core
business problem and less on infrastructure. Although build versus buy has
been the logical question to ask, with the boon of open source software,
another choice can be added to the mix: to borrow.

Object Relational Bridge (OJB) is an open source ORM framework that allows
transparent persistence for Java Objects in relational databases. OJB is
rapidly gaining popularity due to its increasing stability and maturity.
Like other breakout open source projects from Jakarta, OJB has the potential
to save a huge amount of developer and project resources by shifting
development focus back to the fundamental business problem and away from
infrastructure development.

This presentation will present the problems that ORM frameworks are designed
to solve, and will showcase OJB as a viable open source ORM solution for
Java teams.

About the Speaker: Chuck Cavaness - Author of recently released book on
Struts by O'Reilly. Chuck Cavaness is a Senior Technologist at the S1
Corporation. His expertise spans server-side Java, distributed object
computing, and application servers. He spent several years writing Smalltalk
and CORBA applications, and he has taught courses in object-oriented
programming at Georgia Tech. He's written articles for JavaWorld and
InformIt.com. He has also been the technical editor for many J2EE books,
including Using JavaServer Pages and Servlets (Que 2000) and Special Edition
Using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (Que 2001). Chuck earned his degree in
computer science from Georgia Tech.

In May, we plan to put on the Guru Night at the Holiday Inn Select.  This
event will include a panel of experts speaking about skills, techniques and
technologies that make a J2EE guru on a project and/or at a company. If you
have any ideas that you feel are applicable please send them in.  Also, if
you have a candidate for our expert panel, please send us their contact
information. We are looking for developers that serve as architects and
leaders in their organization and development projects. With the Holiday Inn
Select, we'll be able to comfortable seat over 200 people.  Please feel free
to talk up our April and May events to your friends and cubicle neighbors!
The Holiday Inn Select is on the "inside" of the 285, so if traveling
eastbound, take a right off the exit. If traveling westbound, take a left
off the exit.  The westbound (towards Marietta) exit is actually for three
different roads where Chamblee-Dunwoody is listed in the third position on
the sign.  The hotel is "behind" a Phillips 66 gas station and sits directly
beside 285.  Additional parking is available towards the back and in the
office complex beside the hotel.

Thank You,
Burr
AJUG President