Wednesday October 11, DENVER JAVA USERS GROUP Meeting
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<http://www.denverjug.org>

*** Free Pizza @ 5:30 ***

Main Session Speaker: Al Davis
"What's New About New Methods of Software Development?"
7:15pm -8:30pm

BC Session Speaker: Brian Pontarelli
"Jini - Not just for your toaster anymore"
6pm - 7pm
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Location: Qwest Auditorium at 17th and Arapahoe.

*** MAIN PRESENTATION ***

"What's New About New Methods of Software Development?" - Al Davis

Description:

TBD

Speaker:

Al Davis is professor in the College of Business at the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs. He performs research in requirements
management, project management, and entrepreneurship. He teaches
courses in entrepreneurship, information systems, and business strategy.
He also serves as president of The Davis Company, a consulting company
dedicated to helping organizations define, build and/or acquire systems
that address real needs. He was a member of the board of directors of
Requisite, Inc., acquired by Rational Software Corporation in February
1997, and subsequently acquired by IBM in 2003. He has consulted for
many corporations over the past twenty-seven years, including Boeing,
British Telecom, Cadence Design Systems, Cigna Insurance, Federal
Express, Flight Dynamics, Fujitsu, General Electric, Great Plains
Software, IBM, Loral, MCI, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, NTT, Rational
Software, Rockwell, Schlumberger, Sharp, Software Productivity
Consortium, Storage Tek, Sumitomo, and XAware.

*** BASIC CONCEPTS ***

"Jini - Not just for your toaster anymore" - Brian Pontarelli

Description:

This presentation covers all the basics of the Jini platform, which has
recently been transitioned from Sun to Apache. This presentation will
show how to construct a service based application using Jini as well as
how the Jini network is structured and deployed. In addition, a
demonstration of the cool Jini features such as dynamic discovery,
recovery and provisioning will be given.

Attendees are encouraged to bring laptops which will be able to
participate in the demonstration Jini network. JDK 1.5 is required
to run the demonstration application.

Speaker:

Brian Pontarelli is the founder of Inversoft, a Colorado based software
company, the director of technology at the Chicago based start-up Naymz,
and the founder of the Savant and Java.net commons open source projects.
In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an
enterprise architect for Orbitz.

Brian has been programming many years and works primarily with Java and
Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines
about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.

*** AGENDA ***

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking.
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts
7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Announcements
7:15 - 8:30 p.m. Main Presentation
8:30 p.m. Door prizes

*** DIRECTIONS ***

Qwest Auditorium is located in downtown Denver at
1005 17th St,
Denver, CO 80202.
The building entrance faces 17th Street. Take elevator to "A"uditorium
level.

For maps, see:
<http://www.denverjug.org/meetings/location.jsp>

*** SPONSORS ***

Thanks to our regular Denver JUG sponsors for supporting the Java community:
- Qwest for providing facilities (<http://www.qwest.com/>)
- MicroStaff for providing food (<http://www.microstaff.com>)
- TEKsystems for providing food (<http://www.teksystems.com/>)
- EvolutionHosting for providing web hosting
(<http://www.evolutionhosting.com>)


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Jim McMaster
mailto:jim.mcmaster@...