April AJUG!

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

April 20th - AJUG and MDA (Model Driven Architecture)

Time: 6:30
Main Presentation: 7:00 -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)

Applying MDA in the Real World
You have probably heard of the raging debates over Model Driven
Architecture, UML's immaturity, code generation controversy or that modeling
is for wimps. Even such industry notables as Martin Fowler and Scott Ambler
have negative opinions about the viability of MDA. 

We found an author of The Agile Manifesto, Jon Kern (friends with both
Ambler and Fowler), who takes a somewhat contrarian view. Jon is a fanatic
about ensuring software development efforts deliver business value.

Jon will describe a pragmatic "distilled" usage that has high project value
when combined with visual tool support. He will discuss where UML and MDA
overlap, and will dismiss the "Silver Bullet" theory that often accompanies
design and development tools. 
Along the way, Jon will discuss three simple keys to software development
success that you should be practicing:
.	Separation of Concerns 
.	Duality of Architectures
.	Agile development
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May 18th - Java DevCon
A full day of lectures and demonstrations targeted at the professional
software developer.  
Andy Hunt (www.pragmaticprogrammer.com) will be our keynote speaker.   We
will focus on the best practices for the software development process, rich
client development, web application frameworks and design patterns, JXTA,
J2EE security and much more.  This whole day event will also give you an
excellent networking opportunity with other professional developers in
Atlanta and our vendor sponsors/exhibitors.
Time:  8:00 to 6:00 pm
Place:  Cobb Galleria
Cost: $50
Breakfast and lunch will be provided. 
An announcement describing the content and we will be using PayPal for the
registration process (we are putting together the web page now). There will
be no nightly meeting for AJUG in May. 

Our Sponsors:
- Anteo Group - www.anteogroup.com
- BEA - www.bea.com
- ClearNova - www.clearnova.com
- Compuware - www.optimalj.com
- Inflow - www.inflow.com
- JBoss - www.jboss.org
- SpectrumSCM - www.spectrumscm.com

See Ya'll. 
Burr