RSS feed for the Gator JUG http://www.mycgiserver.com/~gatorjug/ Starting with the Java 5 programming language, it has gotten easier to incorporate monitoring and manageability into any application running on a standard VM. Developers now have access to a wealth of runtime VM profile information exposed through Java Management Extensions (JMX), including memory consumption, garbage collection, and thread activities (with even more capabilities in the Java 6 programming language). However, most designers do not develop runtime manageability plans until the very end of their project cycle or when problems start to appear. This requires a team to reengineer the project to insert runtime monitoring and configuration code. This is a bad and costly practice, because the newly inserted code is usually meshed with existing business logic and lessens the separation of concerns between service boundaries. This presentation shows how to plan and integrate runtime manageability, configuration, and control into your application by using JMX, Spring, and AOP. The topics covered show how to develop applications that can react to state changes by using a script engine to extend the manageability of the system with minimal impact on business domain logic. It looks at best practices for architecting scalable and maintainable management services by using sound OO approaches. http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gatorjug/ Greetings Java Enthusiasts! This is a reminder that we'll have a great presentation Wed, 10/11 on Apache Geronimo. If you've ever wondered about Geronimo ad what's different about it, how to use it and what it's all about, then this meeting is for you! See http://www.gatorjug.org for details. Please RSVP to RSVP at gatorjug dot org so we'll know how much food to order. And, please grab a flyer from the GatorJUG website, print it out and put it up where people can see it. Invite your friends. We'll have free Apache T-Shirts, pizza and a lot of fun learning about one of the best open source webservers. We'll also raffle off a copy of Dave Johnson'd new book, "RSS and Atomin Action" (http://manning.com/dmjohnson), tech edited by yours truly! And (drumroll) we'll raffle off one license to IntelliJ's $499 IDE, Idea! Now, that's cool! http://www.gatorjug.org The XX framework is a configurable, XML/XSL-centric implementation of the MVC development paradigm. The primary goal of the XX Framework is to handle typical application CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) with little or no Java programming. Instead of telling the application how to retrieve and how to display the data, we configure what to retrieve (through XML) and what to display (through XSLT). This generally leads to a simpler and more elegant solution that a purely procedural approach. Where the applications needs more than simple CRUD, additional business logic can be easily incorporated into the process. Some additional features of the framework are configurable data caching, thread pooling, and web service integration This talk will provide and introduction to the XX Framework. A sample application will be demonstrated to illustrate key framework concepts and methodology. Background material, such as the XSLT transformation language will also be addressed. Speaker Bio David Moskowitz is the president of Infoblazer LLC and is a developer and application architect with over 15 years experience in the computer industry. David has built applications in technologies ranging from Turbo Pascal and DOS through Java and XML. His recent interest and focus has been the design of multi-tier Internet applications using XML Web Services as a foundation. He has implemented this approach in numerous applications, ranging from large corporate clients to E-Commerce startups. For the past 6 years, David had been developing and refining his unique approach to application development involvement, involving the use of UML, XML, and Java. In 2006, David formalized this approach into the XX Framework which was released as an open source project. http://www.orlandojug.org Gene McCulley will present on the distributed object database he built for a StackFrame customer. This mechanism allows for nodes to share objects peer-to-peer with low latency changes using multicast. Stay tuned for date and time info. I suggest you tell your developer friends to subscribe to this mailing list to automatically be notified of this and the many other interesting, informative and free presentations we have coming up this year. GatorJUG is a place to meet other developers in a comfortable atmosphere and we always have lots of good food and drinks for everyone. Just bring an appetite and a willingness to learn and share. For more info, visit www.gatorjug.com or keep an eye on the calendar at the Gainesville Sun newspaper - http://www.gainesvillesun.com http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gatorjug/ What is mind mapping and how can it be applied to your knowledge capture? When learning Java, each branch of its classes, methods, operators and keywords seems like the tip of an iceberg with 80% below the surface. Mind mapping Java enables you to break apart those icebergs into manageable chunks and let’s you see both the surface and depths.
Part I will be a short tutorial on the FreeMind open source mind mapping software. The ease of use of the software in creating a map will be included. Part II will focus on the exploration of a mind map Fred created of the Java language with emphasis on certification knowledge. Mind mapping can be easily applied to any part of your work or personal knowledge capture from meeting notes, to a complex body of knowledge, to a Podcast from the swamp.
Bio: Fred Dearman
Fred is first and foremost a software developer. He has developed applications from outer space to inner space including rocket analysis, aircraft simulation, refinery blending, to oil drilling. Fred took a brief detour into IT, electronic publishing, and managing a million record physical asset data base. After taking a package, Fred re-activated his love for programming through studying C, C++ and Java. Fred has reentered the marketplace as a Sun Certified Java Programmer. Fred holds a BS in mathematics (1967) from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN. Fred received the Customer Special Recognition Award for Data Management from Unocal, Excellence of software implementation from Hays Data Management, was nominated for a creative information database application from Folio Views, and awarded the Saturn V roll of honor Engineer of the Month, by Boeing.
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Time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Santa Fe Community College http://www.myjavaserver.com/~gatorjug/ This month in Gainesville, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is giving a presentation the same night as our regularly scheduled GatorJUG meeting. So, we should support Jimmy and enjoy the opportunity to hear his news and views. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia located at http://www.wikipedia.org. Information about Jimmy's presentation can be found here: http://www.jroller.com/page/Sandymountster/20060408
Place: Emerson Alumni Hall Banquet Room, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Stay tuned to http://www.gatorjug.org for upcoming meeting info. http://www.mycgiserver.com/~gatorjug/ Object-to-service mapping (OSM), the generalization of object-to-relational mapping (ORM), occupies an important space as the software industry embraces service-oriented architecture (SOA). Composite applications, built by assembling services together, can be greatly simplified by the use of a service metadata repository (SMR) and a business-level object model. By leveraging the SMR's description of not only services' syntax and implementation technologies, but also each service method's behavior, an OSM-based product can eradicate the need for static orchestration and lay the foundation for a comprehensive, business-level object model that composite applications can use regardless of where and how the model's data is stored. http://www.mycgiserver.com/~gatorjug/ Ruby on Rails seems to be the fastest growing web application framework on the Internet today*. It has had a huge effect on the way websites are being programmed both inside and outside the Ruby on Rails community. Is it a replacement for Java? No. Is it a great way to develop a certain class of web applications? Yes. Learn what sets this framework apart from all the others and what all the hype is about. It might change the way you think about languages, web applications, and programming. It may also make your life a lot easier. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html Wednesday October 12, 2005, 6:30p.m. - 8:30p.m. at Santa Fe Community College S-29/30 Next to the bookstore. The door is on the right side of this picture. http://www.mycgiserver.com/~gatorjug/