23 Days to Java DevCon 2006

[Burr Sutter]

We are in the final stages of negotiating final numbers with Cobb
Galleria and early registration has already exceeded expectations!
Our speaker line up is the strongest ever with a focus on some of this
years most exciting and emerging technologies such as JSF, AJAX and
Spring 2.0.
The benefits of participation in AJUG events is often very obvious to
most managers in Atlanta.  In today's tight labor market, employers
are making an even bigger effort to provide more forms of continuing
education for their technical employees and Java DevCon is by far and
away the most cost effective educational event available in this area.
If you need any additional materials/information to help promote this
event in your corporation/organization please contact Burr Sutter at
burrsutter at gmail.com or 770-714-3292.


Date: May 25th
Time: 8 to 6 pm
Place: Cobb Galleria
Website: www.ajug.org/devcon2006
Platinum Sponsors: Sun Microsystems
Annual Sponsors: Anteo Group, Inflow and JBoss

As many of you know Spring has been a very popular topic in the
Atlanta Java community.  The presentation on Spring least year pulled
in over 200 attendees.  We are very excited to welcome another
Interface 21 member to speak on Spring 2.0.

Speaker: Ben Hale, Interface21 Consultant
Title: Spring Framework 2.0: New and Noteworthy

Abstract:
In Spring Framework 2.0: New and Noteworthy, Ben Hale will outline the major
new features of Spring 2.0. Attendees will learn how to use Spring 2.0 to
greatly simplify the configuration of their applications across the entire
stack through use of domain-specific languages and smart defaults.  They
will see how to make their business services transactional in *one line* of
configuration code.  Other highlights include practical examples of creating
aspects using AspectJ's pointcut language, developing stateful business
components, implementing beans using dynamic languages such as Groovy and
Beanshell, receiving asynchronous messages with JMS, and leveraging Spring's
support for Java 5 language constructs.

Bio:
Ben Hale is a Interface21 consultant focusing on middle-tier technologies.
Prior to joining Interface21, Ben was an architect at a large
telecommunications firm where he was responsible for architecting and
implementing a performant, scaleable network management platform built upon
Spring 2.0.