Lunch Meeting ) + When: November 11, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see pills comgooglemaps/Itemid, 31/" title: ""Meeting location">Meeting location or here ) Topic: Concurrent Programming + Speaker: Brett Schuchert Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up NO Evening Meeting (unless more people want it) Presentation Information "

Lunch Meeting + When: October 14, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see search comgooglemaps/Itemid,31/" title: ""Meeting location">Meeting location or here ) Topic: Executable Requirements with Fitnesse Speaker:Ryan Hoegg & Kenyatta Clark Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) Cancelled When: October 14, 2008 5:30 PM Where: University of Phoenix room ???(see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Executable Requirements with Fitnesse + Speaker: Kenyatta Clark & Ryan Hoegg Food and drinks will not be provided! + Agenda 5:30 pm - Eat, chat, network time + 6:00 pm - Welcome Announcements 6:05 pm - Presentation 7:30 pm - Open the floor to questions, discussion, network time Presentation Information Fitnesse is a open source software development collaboration tool. We will show how to use Fitnesse to make acceptance criteria run against your software system. We will explore how to use various fixture types to match acceptance criteria. We will also explore the use of the extension FitLibrary. "

Lunch Meeting ) + When:September 9, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see link comgooglemaps/Itemid,31/" title: ""Meeting location">Meeting location or here ) Topic: Groovy: an introduction + + + Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting -- CANCELED ) + When: September 9, 2008 5:30 PM Where: University of Phoenix room 105W (next door) (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Groovy: an introduction + Food and drinks will not be provided! + Agenda 5:30 pm - Eat, chat, network time + 6:00 pm - Welcome Announcements 6:05 pm - Presentation 7:30 pm - Open the floor to questions, discussion, network time Presentation Information Groovy has been gaining ground in mainstream Java circles. Admittedly it's gotten a lot of help from Grails (the Ruby on Rails inspired web framework), but Groovy itself is an extremely useful and powerful tool/language to have in your programmer utility belt. This presentation will present a basic introduction of what Groovy is and what it can do for the everyday Java developer. "

Lunch Meeting ) + When:August 12, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see order comgooglemaps/Itemid, 31/" title="Meeting location">Meeting location or here ) Topic: JSF2 Component Development in a 1.2 World + + Sponsor: GDH + Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: August 12, 2008 6:00PM Where: University of Phoenix room ??? (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: JSF2 Component Development in a 1.2 World Food and drinks will not be provided! + Agenda 5:30 pm - Eat, chat, network time + 6:00 pm - Welcome Announcements 6:05 pm - Presentation 7:30 pm - Open the floor to questions, discussion, network time Presentation Information One of the improvements coming in JSF 2 is the vast simplification of component development, but JSF 2 is months away, and you want that functionality NOW, so what's an impatient developer to do? Enter JSFTemplating and JSF Extensions. Using these two libraries, it is possible to use an approach very similar to what JSF 2 will offer, but can be done using JSF 1.2. In this presentation, we'll peek under the hood of Mojarra Scales, a component set that uses this approach, and see what it has to offer. "

Lunch Meeting ) + When:July 8, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Effectively Testing Web Applications Speaker: Rod Coffin and Matt Smith Sponsor: Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: July 8, 2008 6:00PM Where: University of Phoenix room 303 (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Effectively Testing Web Applications Speaker: Rod Coffin and Matt Smith Food and drinks will not be provided! + Agenda 6:00 pm - Welcome Announcements 7:00 pm - Open the floor to questions etc. + Presentation Information Coming soon..."

Lunch Meeting ) + When:June 10, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Introduction to Spring Web Flow Sponsor:Teksystems Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: June 10, 2008 6:00PM Where: University of Phoenix room 305 (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Spring Web Flow, Java for Nerdlings, Java Workshop Food and drinks will not be provided! + Agenda 6:30 pm - Welcome Announcements 6:35 pm - Open the floor to questions etc. + Presentation Information Spring Web Flow is a core module of the Spring Framework that is a strong fit for web applications with demanding page flow requirements. The system lets you capture a logical page flow as a self-contained module that can be reused in different situations in a consistent fashion. The system is ideal for web applications that execute business processes over a series of steps spanning HTTP requests, and those demanding wizards, dynamic flows, and/or flows whose executions need to be audited or annotated. The system exists at a higher-level of abstraction, building on base Model 2 frameworks like Struts and Spring MVC, capturing your application's page flow explicity in a declarative fashion. + In the presentation, we will discuss the following: What is Spring Web Flow? Why consider using it? Architectural Overview, i.e. how does it work? How to integrate it into your existing web applications, e.g. Struts or Spring Web MVC. "

Lunch Meeting ) + When: May 13, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 308 (see buy comgooglemaps/Itemid,31/" title="Meeting location">Meeting location or here ) Topic: link:content/view/71/1/[Persistence in Java with Hibernate and JPA] Sponsor: GDH + Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: May 13, 2008 6:00PM Where: University of Phoenix room 305 (see Meeting location or here ) Topic: Java for Nerdlings,Java Workshop Food and drinks will not be provided! + Agenda 6:30 pm - Welcome Announcements 6:35 pm - Open the floor to questions etc. + Presentation Information Synopsis: Ever since JDBC was introduced to the Java community, + providing access to relational databases via SQL and metadata, there has + been a quest to transparently integrate access to these databases in + Java. Hibernate paved the way as an open source answer to this quest. + Later, JPA was introduced officially as a first-class citizen using + annotations. Today, Hibernate remains agile with its use of annotations + and criteria. + "

Lunch Meeting ) + When: April 8, 2008 12:30-1:40 Where: University of Phoenix +++room changed to 308+++ (see Meeting location) Topic: Spring in Action Speaker: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/speaker/craig_walls.html[Craig Walls] + Sponsor: link:/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,15/id,15/[No Fluff Just Stuff] + Agenda 12:30 am - Welcome Announcements 12:40 am - Main Presentation 1:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: April 8, 2008 5:30PM Where: University of Phoenix +++still in room 311+++ (see Meeting location ) Topic: Spring in Action Speaker: http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/speaker/craig_walls.html[Craig Walls] Sponsor: link:/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,15/id,15/[No Fluff Just Stuff] Agenda 5:30 pm - Pizza, welcome announcements, and main presentation 6:30 pm - Wrap Up Presentation Information Spring has been one of the most exciting frameworks to emerge in the past few years. With Spring you can decouple your application's objects, enrich them with AOP, and apply transactional boundaries and security to them declaratively. It simplifies data access, remoting, web services, and JMS. It comes with its own web framework. And, even though Spring eliminates much of the need for EJBs, it will still integrate nicely with any EJBs you may have lying around. What's not to love? Everyone's favorite Java framework continues to improve, with significant enhancements in Spring 2.0 and many more slated for the upcoming Spring 2.1 release. Maybe you've already seen or read about Spring and perhaps you've even developed applications using Spring. But have you seen the latest that Spring has to offer. + + In this example-driven presentation, I'll lead a guided tour through the key features of Spring, with an emphasis on what's new in Spring 2.0 and what is to come in Spring 2.1. Whether you're a Spring newbie or a seasoned Spring developer, there'll be something new for nearly everyone. "

Lunch Meeting ) + When: March 11, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 311 (see Meeting location ) Topic:Spring MVC + Speaker: Michael Smith Sponsor: link:/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,15/id,6/[Addison Group] + Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: March 11, 2008 6:00PM Where: University of Phoenix room 311 (see Meeting location ) Topic:Spring MVC + Speaker: Michael Smith Sponsor: link:/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,15/id,18/[GDH Consulting] Agenda 6:30 pm - Pizza 7:00 pm - Welcome Announcements 7:15 pm - Main Presentation continued 8:45 pm - Giveaways and Wrap Up Presentation Information Did you know Spring has its own web framework known as Spring MVC? The Java community has an abundance web frameworks including JSF, Struts, Webwork and Tapestry to name just a few. Find out why Spring provides another and what features it can provide to you. "

Lunch Meeting ) + When: February 19, 2008 11:30-12:40 Where: University of Phoenix room 311 (see buy comgooglemaps/Itemid, 31/" title="Meeting location">Meeting location) Topic: JavaServer Faces + (FAA) Sponsor: link:/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,15/id,18/[GDH Consulting] Agenda 11:30 am - Welcome Announcements 11:40 am - Main Presentation 12:40 pm - Wrap Up Evening Meeting ) + When: February 19, 2008 6:00PM Where: University of Phoenix room 311 (see Meeting location ) Topic: JavaServer Faces + (FAA) + Sponsor: link:/component/option,com_weblinks/task,view/catid,15/id,18/[GDH Consulting] Agenda 6:30 pm - Pizza 7:00 pm - Welcome Announcements 7:15 pm - Main Presentation continued 8:45 pm - Giveaways and Wrap Up Presentation Information JavaServer Faces (JSF) is quickly emerging as the leading solution for rapid UI development in Java-based server-side applications. The presentation will cover core JSF and its functionality, including Managed Beans, Navigation, Event Handling, Conversion/Validation and the Data Table. The final demo includes Facelets, RichFaces, and MySQL 5. "