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This month's HJUG meeting will take place on Wednesday 24th November
from 7pm to 9pm.
********** LOCATION INFORMATION **********

This month's meeting will be held in the POST building, room 302, at the
University of Hawaii Manoa campus.

http://www.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/vtour?Manoa=l=POST
UoH parking information is here:

http://www.hawaii.edu/parking/visitorParking.html


********** NEW MEETING AGENDA **********

The meeting's agenda is as follows:

7:00pm - 7:45pm "XMLBeans" Main talk by David Beutel

7:45pm - 8:00pm Discussion

8:00pm - 8:15pm Pattern Workshop - Sam Joseph introduces the "Mediator"
pattern

8:15pm - 9:00pm Workshop discussion

The talk abstracts and speaker biographies are as follows:

Main Talk Title: XMLBeans

Main Talk Abstract:

David introduces XMLBeans, a new Apache tool (originally from BEA) for
binding Java to XML. It compiles a Schema to create Java classes that
parse and generate XML. He'll work through a trivial example first, and
then a more realistic (yet not too complicated) example to demonstrate
the best features. He'll touch on appropriate applications, and on
advantages over other approaches like JAXB, Castor, and JDOM. In
passing, he may also get to demonstrate some handy features of IntelliJ
IDEA 4.5, and with any luck, JDK 5.
http://xmlbeans.apache.org/

Main Talk Biography:

J. David Beutel has been developing software in industry for 14 years,
including 5 in Java. He is drawn to technologies that make his job
easier. He moved to Honolulu from Tokyo a year ago, but just recently
finds himself enjoying Hawaii more than he should because of all the
free time on his hands while he looks for a new software engineering job
here.

Pattern Workshop: Mediator Pattern

Workshop Abstract:

The Mediator pattern defines an object that encapsulates how a set of
objects interact. Mediator promotes loose coupling by keeping objects
from referring to each other explciitly, and lets you vary they
interaction independently:

http://home.earthlink.net/~huston2/dp/mediator.html