Important Happenings at AJUG

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

This month's meeting and a special announcement.

Date: October 21, 2003
Start Time: 6:30 pm for general discussion and networking
Presentation:  7:00 to 9:00 pm
Place: Holiday Inn Select - 4386 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd, 
Atlanta, GA  30341 (770) 457-6363 
Exit 30 - one exit east of Ashford-Dunwoody off 285.  

Description:
Taming the Tiger J2SE 1.5
The next major release of J2SE is code-named Tiger. Tiger 
is scheduled to "ship" in 2004 with a number of very 
popular features for Java developers. This session will 
describe the new language features and changes to the J2SE 
platform. We will describe and provide examples for the 
new Java syntax for features such as metadata, generics, 
enumerated types, autoboxing, foreach loop and formatted 
I/O. In addition, Tiger will include enhancements to 
various XML APIs, JDBC RowSets and many others. This 
presentation will focus more specifically on the Java 
syntax changes.

Speaker Bio:
Jason Chambers is an Advisory Developer for Delta.com, an 
open source nut and a Sun Certified Java Programmer and 
Web Component Developer with over 12 years of professional 
IT experience.

As always we like to thank our sponsors that provide 
resources for our meeting facilities, A/V equipment and 
website hosting: BEA (www.bea.com), BravePoint 
(www.bravepoint.com), Inflow (www.inflow.com), Spectrum 
Software (www.spectrumscm.com) and Compuware 
(www.compuware.com).

Special Event for Atlanta Java Users ? November 4 ? James 
Gosling sponsored by Sun!
AJUG Presents - "A Special Evening with James Gosling." 
 The Atlanta Java Users' Group cordially invites you to a 
technical talk and Q&A session given by Sun Fellow and 
Java creator, James Gosling.

As Vice President of Sun Microsystems Laboratories, James 
will communicate the most recent news concerning Java 
since the JavaOne conference, and entertain an extended 
Q&A session.

This past year, James has spent a large amount of time 
developing the Real-Time Specification for Java.   In 
addition to creating Java, James has also developed the 
NeWS window system, and the original Unix Emacs editor. 
 James holds a BSc from the University of Calgary, and a 
Ph. D. from Carnegie-Mellon University. 

We expect a very large turnout for this special event.  We 
will be sending out a link to RSVP so we can better plan 
for seats. Our currently plan is to still host this event 
at the Holiday Inn Select but allow for at least 450+ 
seats (normal meetings can only accommodate 200 
attendees).

As always your feedback is appreciated!

Thanks,
Burr
AJUG President