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Greetings Everyone,
The August NJUG meeting will be held on 8/26 at 6 pm at a new location. The
new facility is Qualifacts Systems Inc, which is located at 200 Second
Avenue South downtown Nashville. You can find a map of the location
here => Click
Here<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=200+second+ave+south…>
This month’s speaker is Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas of Sun MIcrosystems, and
below is a summary of his topic and bio.
*JavaFX and Java SE 6 Update 10: A new Desktop Experience*
Java SE is on over 90% of desktops and Java ME is on over 90% of mobile
phones.  Java is also making a big dent in the consumer space such as set
top boxes, Blu-Ray Disc players and so on. Although Java client
technology is ubiquitous, consumer applications are not because
development and deployment for consumers is still too hard. Rich
Applications has achieved a new degree of sophistication
with requirements to add multimedia and animation.
With the introduction of the new JavaFX SDK and Java SE 6
update N, it is possible to incorporate the newer elements
of a very rich client application into new and existing
Java applications. The talk will explore the features of the
language followed by features that are being explored to create
leaner and meaner JRE that eases deployment and installation. The
features that are being looked into will ease start-up time, provide a quick
launch and on-demand installation, among other things. The talk
will explore the Java Kernel and other features that ease applet and
application instantiation and deployment. We will also look at features that
enable building richer client applications with Java SE 6 Update 10.
After attending this session attendees should be able to walk away with a
good
understanding of where the JavaFX and Java SE platform is headed and how
this should ease  their development and deployment concerns for consumer
applications.
*About Raghavan:*
Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas is the CTO of Technology Evangelism at Sun
Microsystems looking at new technology directions and trends. His general
focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in
interoperability, mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of
technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate
classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and has represented
Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing
committee for several industry-wide technical conferences.
Rags brings with him about 20 years of software development and about 7
years of technology evangelism experience. He worked for Digital Equipment
Corporation before joining Sun. He has worked on several technology areas,
including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. He has evangelized a number of
technology areas including the early releases of Java, Java EE, Java and
XML, Java ME, AJAX and Web 2.0 and so on.
Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced
Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.
Give me a call if you have any issues or questions, 615.351.4178

Greetings Everyone,
Just a reminder that the March Nashville Java Users group meeting will be
held 6 pm tomorrow, March 18th at Emdeon Corporation. Just come into the
building and head up to the 6th floor.  You can find a map at
http://voomr.com/njug
A summary of the presentation is below.
Presenter: Praveen Misra
Topic: Introduction to Maven
1. Background of build tools.
2. What is Maven and what it is not?
3. Maven’s important features?
4. How to get started with simple example?
5. Show a few cool things maven can do?
For those who don’t know where maven is, here is a  snipped from the apache
maven project homepage.
Maven’s Objectives
Maven’s primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete
state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to
attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to
deal with:
- Making the build process easy
- Providing a uniform build system
- Providing quality project information
- Providing guidelines for best practices development
- Allowing transparent migration to new features
Details on Maven can be found at
http://maven.apache.org/<http://maven.apache.org/index.html>
If you have issues locating the facility, or need any info feel free to give
me a call 615.351.4178