Omaha Java Users Group

Due to the closeness to the holidays, we are going to move the meetings to the second Tuesday of the month for both November and December.

So, our meetings will be:

• November 14th
• December 12th

Meeting times will stay the same:
5:30 food/social time
~6:00 speakers
Looking forward to seeing you at the Gallup.com meeting location!
Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus
1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
(402) 951-2003

Hope to see you there!

This month we are changing things up a little more with nothing but lightning talks.  Each talk will be about 15 - 20 minutes, with a little time at the end for questions.  We do not intend to do this for every meeting, but this does give people a chance to get up in front of a (mostly) harmless group and talk about something they are interested in.

• An Introduction to Closures - Blaine Buxton
• Driving Selenium with Groovy - Kyle Dyer
• Code Coverage tools - Scott Hickey
• Using CruiseControl - Matt Secoske

We are also introducing a new peice to the meetings: Open Discussion - people can talk about problems they’re facing, things that are interesting to them, etc.  Bring your toughest problem right now with you and see if we can’t solve it together!  If you have code snippets that can elaborate the issue, by all means bring them too!

October 17th - Food and Soda starting at 5:30PM , presentation to start around 6:00PM

Location:
Gallup Riverfront Campus
1001 Gallup Dr, Omaha, NE
(402) 951-2003

Hope to see you there!

19 September 2006 Meeting Topics

• Where: Gallup.com’s campus — New location!
• When: 19 September 2006 starting at 5:30 — New time!
• What: TBA and Lightning talks
• Who: Everyone is welcome!
• Why: To learn, to have fun, and to network
• How: Just show up! No money needed!

Please note there is a new schedule:

5:30 Food / Social
6:00 Announcements
6:15 TBA talk
7:15 break
7:30 Lightning talk
7:45 Lightning talk
8:00 door prizes / meeting over

We’re also trying a new location on Gallup.com’s campus 1001 Gallup Drive Omaha, NE 68102

Here’s a poll hosted by quimble.com: Should OJUG meet at the Gallup.com location this September?  Please take a moment to vote?
The poll has an RSS feed…

EJB 3.0 and jMatter have nothing in common, except Java. We had two wonderful presentations today.

EJB 3.0 was presented by Rajan Ramanujan from Lincoln Financial. Here are some of the advantages of using EJB 3.0 over EJB 2.1:

• Fewer Classes and Interfaces
• Dependancy Injection ( Bean instance construction triggers injection of needed resources)
• Simple Lookups
• No required Container Interfaces
• No required Deployment Descriptor
• Simplified persistence
• Object/Relational Data mapping
• Designed to draw Developers to J2EE

jMatter is an Application Framework for constructing workgroup business applications based on the Naked Objects Architectural Patterns. The jMatter framework does the CRUD functions for you and provides a very rich drag and drop, calendaring, and reporting functions. Matt Payne made an application from scratch during his presentation; the application is all Swing and a Rich Client App. This rich app can be launched via java web start; there’s an example of Matt’s here; this example includes a groovy interpreter and the ability to import OVAL files via XMLBeans. Eitan’s slides about jMatter.org are available on the jMatter site; and Matt Payne’s slides are available at MattPayne.org/talks.

Spencer Reed Group, an IT Staffing company, sponsored this OJUG meeting by providing Pizza and Pop. They gave away 5 door prizes too.

1Staff, a premier IT training company, provided meeting room facility for the group today.

• What: There will be two talks:
• Rajan will be talking about EJB3.0 and will go first.
• Matt Payne will be talking after the break about jMatter.org and XMLBeans.apache.org.
• Estimated length of Matt’s talk is 40 minutes.
• Who: Rajan and Matt Payne
• When: Tuesday 15 August 2006 Food and Soda starting at 6:30PM , presentations to start around 7:00PM
• Where: 1Staff Training (map)

• What: Groovy — http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Who: Scott Hickey
• When: Tuesday 18 July 2006 Food and Soda starting at 6:30PM , presentations to start around 7:00PM
• Where: 1Staff Training (map)
  10846 Emmet Street (same are as Gold’s Gym, behind McDonalds @ 108th & Maple)
• Who: Everyone is welcome!
• Why: These are compelling topics presented by compelling speakers
• How: Please RSVP to Matt S and then just show up — it also helps to be willing to talk about what you want to happen with OJUG!

What:  Matt S on talking on Performance and Blaine B talking on reflective testing

When: Tuesday 20 June 2006 Food and Soda starting at 6:30PM , presentations to start around 7:00PM

Where: 1Staff Training (map)
10846 Emmet Street (same are as Gold’s Gym, behind McDonalds @ 108th & Maple)

Who: Everyone is welcome!

Why: These are compelling topics presented by compelling speakers

How: Please RSVP to Matt S and then just show up — it also helps to be willing to talk about what you want to happen with OJUG!

Speakers this month will be Pat Schoening of ASCIT talking about Web
Services, and Phong Pham (also of ASCIT) talking about SOA and ESB. Please email Matt Secoske if you plan to attend.Date:  
May 16th - Food and Soda starting at 6:30PM , presentations to start around 7:00PM

Location:  

1Staff Training (map)
10846 Emmet Street (same are as Gold’s Gym, behind McDonalds @ 108th & Maple)

Sponsored By: Bass & Associates