Time to Hibernate

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

Kicking off 2004 for the Atlanta Java Users Group will be 
a combination of some of our favorite things: open source 
technology and industry recognized experts.

January Meeting
Date: January 20, 2004 (3rd Tuesday)
Time: 6:30 begins the general discussion (please bring 
your questions, thoughts, new job opportunities)
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.  
Cost: Free (sign up for our email-list at www.ajug.org)

We have a several new sponsors for 2004 that you will be 
hearing about over the next several weeks.   For now let 
us thank those that supported us in 2003 and provide for 
our meeting room, A/V equipment, website hosting and 
keeping our normal monthly meetings free of charge to our 
membership.
BEA Systems ? www.bea.com
BravePoint ? www.bravepoint.com
Inflow ? www.inflow.com
Compuware ? www.compuware.com
SpectrumSCM ? www.spectrumscm.com

This Month?s Meeting:
Please join us for the first meeting of 2004 for 
Hibernate?s inventor Gavin King. We expect a big turnout 
for the most popular open source ORM 
(object-relational-mapping) persistence architecture that 
is now part of Atlanta-based JBoss Group.

Gavin King is the founder and lead developer of Hibernate 
a very powerful Java Object to Relation mapping utility. 
Gavin now works full-time on Hibernate through his 
employment with JBoss Group. His talk will focus on some 
of the powerful features of Hibernate and object 
persistence in general. Here is a little more about 
Hibernate: 

Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance 
object/relational persistence and query service for Java. 
Hibernate lets you develop persistent objects following 
common Java idiom - including association, inheritance, 
polymorphism, composition and the Java collections 
framework. Extremely fine-grained, richly typed object 
models are possible. The Hibernate Query Language, 
designed as a "minimal" object-oriented extension to SQL, 
provides an elegant bridge between the object and 
relational worlds. Hibernate is now the most popular ORM 
solution for Java.

Ben Sabrin, Director of Sales and Business Development for 
JBoss Group, will discuss "Open Source in the Enterprise"

Thank you for your feedback and responses to our last 
topic and meeting priority survey.  2004 will be a great 
year for the Java community.  Just look at 
www.ajug.org/jobs.html for an indication of the strength 
of our local market!

February Meeting (2/17): Web Services and Service Oriented 
Architecture with Chris Haddad of the Burton Group.  He is 
scheduled to present Apache Axis at this year's Edge East 
Conference in Boston also in February

Planning for March and the first half of 2004:
In 2004, we plan to put on AJUG's first conference-style 
event.  The current plan includes keynote speakers, 
technical breakout sessions focused on those topics you 
care most about, an exhibition area for demonstrations, 
networking and refreshments.  An entire day to bring you 
the topics you want to hear about.
Please let me know if you can volunteer to support this 
event as an organizer, speaker and/or exhibitor.  And if 
you believe that your enterprise could possibly send out 
dozens of IT'ers for this local, low cost educational 
event, please let us know that so we can plan accordingly!
Very few AJUG'ers go to JavaOne in the DotBomb era, 
perhaps we can bring a little of that excitement to 
Atlanta (minus the great chinese food, cable cars and cute 
seals on the wharf!).

Sincerely,
Burr
AJUG President
sutter@bravepoint.com