Denver Java Users Group

 

agenda

5:30 p.m. Food and Networking
6-7 p.m. Basic Concepts
7-7:15 p.m. Break and Announcements
7:15-8:15 p.m. Main Meeting
8:15-8:30 p.m. Questions and Answers
8:30 p.m. Door Prizes

location

We will be meeting at the Tivoli Building which is closest to the Pepsi Center side of the campus. The room we are in is called "Turnhalle" and list listed as room 250. It's the large hall we were in for the Ted Neward talks.

For directions to the Auraria Campus, click here.

sponsors

 

Description

As developers, we sometimes get to make choices about the technologies we use, sometimes not. We base these decisions on personal experiences, recommendations from others and a general sense of where the industry is going. Web Services have been all the rage for several years now. We have been told time and again that we should be building systems around them; as an industry, we've never been more confused.
Perhaps it is time to Give it a REST.

Speaker

Brian Sletten is a liberal-arts educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC, a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by conventional tools and techniques.

Much thanks to Jay Zimmerman for bringing in Brian Sletten as a special speaker for our Basic Concepts talk, and special thanks to Scott Ryan who was gracious enough to let us reschedule his talk to bring in Brian Sletten.

Description

Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Java Portlets and Business Process Management (BPM). It has been designed from the ground up to eliminate complexity at the architecture and the API level. Seam enables developers to assemble complex web applications with simple annotated Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), componentized UI widgets and very little XML.

Speaker

Norman Richards is a software engineer at Red Hat and a core developer on the JBoss Seam project. He is the author of several popular Java books, including XDoclet in Action and JBoss: A Developer's Notebook. Norman is the co-host of The Stack Trace, a software development podcast.
He also helps run the Austin Java Users Group.

Much thanks to Red Hat for flying in our featured speaker, Norman Richards.