Please join us at the Ann Arbor Java Users Group as Raghavan “Rags” Srinivas speaks to us on:
Java SE: Towards easier development and deployment

Date: Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Time: 6:30PM – 10:00PM EDT

We have planned a Q & A Period starting at around 9:15 PM, so come and “Ask the Java Evangelist” your questions!!

The room will be open by 6:15 PM.

Note: We will have giveaways such as Books, CDs, T-Shirts, Pens, etc. from Sun Microsystems.

We will now be serving a Pasta Bar Dinner with refreshments!

(Planning to serve Pizza as well)

Please send an RSVP to:
rsvp@data-masters.com

Please note, we changed our meeting room since Friday!!

Meeting Location:
Washtenaw Community College, WCC ML 101

http://www.wccnet.edu/search/roomlocator/index.php?room=ML101&lago=Go

PRESENTATION:
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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. Despite the ubiquity of Java technologies it would
take significant enhancements to ease Java deployment and be entrenched in the
consumer market.

This session starts with an introduction to GUI development with JavaFX Script, an object-oriented, declarative Java scripting language. JavaFX Script is a
statically typed language that allows good integrated development environment (IDE) support and compile-time error reporting and has type inference, declarative syntax, and automatic data binding with full support for 2-D graphics and standard Swing components as well as declarative animation.

JavaFX script will be followed with the features that are being explored to create a
more consumer-friendly JRE that eases deployment and installation. The features that
are being looked into will ease start-up time, provide a quick launch, on demand
installation and so on.

After attending this session attendees should be able to walk away with a good
understanding of where the Java SE platform is headed and how it should ease their
development and deployment concerns.

Presenter BIO:
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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.

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