Thank to you all who attended our November Meeting at its alternate date and time. Again, this was a one time occurrence and we will be meeting the 2nd Tuesday of December as usual." Thank you to Brett Shuchert for his presentation on Java 8 Lambdas. Brett has put all of the code from his presentation on his github site at: https://github.com/schuchert/lambda_jug.git Thank you again to Techlahoma (techalohoma.org) for providing food for this meeting and to ProtoTek OKC (prototekokc.com) for allowing us to meet at their facility free of charge. Look forward to seeing everyone at the December Meeting on Dec. 9.

Speaker Bio Brett Schuchert Note We are moving the day of the meeting to Friday, November 14, since Brett is only in town on Fridays. Also, once again there will be NO FOOD or GIVE-A-WAY this month.* GREAT NEWS: Amanda Harlin has contacted the JUG and will be providing Pizza, Pop and a Give-a-way for this month’s meeting. Thanks, Amanda!

For many REST developers, API design and implementation is an iterative process taking place mostly in code: a rough idea of the API is mentally sketched out, and some code is written; API tweaks are made, and the code is changed; repeat ad nauseam. While this can and does work, it’s not always the most efficient, as design details can be lost in all the code. Speaker Bio Jason Lee Important Due to a continuing lack of sponsorship for the remainder of 2014 and delays in getting some sponsorship money that is owed, there will be no food or giveaway at this month’s meeting. If you want to sponsor in the future then please contact Brent Wilkins (drodmaster@gmail.com or bwilkins@hertz.com or 405.650.7467).* Thanks to Chad Gorshing and Nuisto we will be having pizza and pop for the meeting today.

Important Meeting is back at ProtoTek and will be from now on. Jesse will be presenting on Angular.js, a popular framework for building user interfaces that run completely in the browser, and work with your server via APIs. One lucky attendee will receive a $25 Amazon gift card. Speaker Bio Jesse Harlin Note Due to sponsorship delays, no food or drink will be provided. BRING YOUR OWN FOOD.

Meeting at NW Library this month. This will be a very interesting topic as Streams and Lambdas have been a big buzzword in the Java community. Speaker Bio Karl Kirch As usual there will be Pizza and drinks provided. All attendees will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. Please come join us.

Note New Location We’re meeting at a new location this month: Prototek OKC. We are very grateful to Prototek for providing the accommodations for our meetings this summer. Apache FOP is a processing tool that renders content in various formats from an XML (XSL-FO) document. Some of the formats are PDF, PNG, PCL, and AWT. We will discuss a very simple use case that starts with a Web form and ends with an email containing the attached PDF, generated by FOP. Speaker Bio Erich Leipold is the COO of Confluex, an integration consulting company. He has been working in IT for the past 22 years, in various roles. He is primarily a Java developer, with additional experience in PHP, Python, and VB. Erich has been working in integration for the past several years, including using FOP for creating dynamic PDF documents.

This month we have two presentations, so get there early! First, Jason Richards will show us some tips about writing a resume from years of experience helping candidates tune theirs. Then, Jeff Bowman will present about lambdas in Java 8. We’re meeting at 11:30am on Tuesday, May 13 at the Northwest Library. As always, lunch will be provided. Looking forward to seeing you there! Please register for the meeting here.

Description: Today’s applications are getting more and more distributed every day and it is well-known that distributed programming is hard. With Hazelcast though, distributed programming is easy and lots of fun. Chad will give an introduction to Hazelcast and how are some ways to use this tool. Register here. Speaker Bio Chad Gorshing

AMQP is an open standard for messaging. We will learn about messaging, about the AMQP standard, and about the different messaging patterns we use to allow our applications and services to communicate using AMQP messaging. We’ll be using the open source RabbitMQ as our messaging server, and we’ll go over how to download it and set it up. Speaker Bio Ryan Hoegg Register here.

Register here: https://plus.google.com/events/caf7h0jl4msp7c8raungsfaroe8 Come enjoy the Holidays with your Java Family, showing your relatives and other loved ones that they are replaceable. We’ll have a Dirty Santa with door prizes, but feel free to bring a gift. There will be traditional Christmas pizza.