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This month's HJUG meeting will take place on Wednesday 30th March from
6pm to 8pm.

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http://hnlc2.ics.hawaii.edu/discourse/ics/interaction/workspaces.php?workspace=5

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********** 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:

6:00pm - 6:45pm "J2EE with Spring, Or How I Learned to Love Java Again"
Main talk by Seth Ladd

6:45pm - 7:00pm Discussion

7:00pm - 7:15pm Pizza Break sponsored by Ikayzo http://www.ikayzo.com/

7:15pm - 7:45pm Pattern Workshop - Sam Joseph introduces the "Prototype"
pattern

7:45pm - 8:00pm Workshop discussion

The talk abstracts and speaker biographies are as follows:

Main Talk Title: J2EE with Spring, Or How I Learned to Love Java Again

Main Talk Abstract:

2 Years ago, enterprise java development was in trouble. Today, it is
thriving. What changed? A shift in thinking, from the complex to the
simple. From the rigid to the agile. And from the
heavy to the light weight.

A key piece of this transition comes from Spring, a light weight IoC
container for Java. Living peacefully with existing Java technologies
and APIs, Spring has breathed new life into Java development. Its tenets
make Java developers happy and productive again.

Come learn about Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection, and how
Spring can streamline your Java development. We'll also cover some of
Spring's AOP support, and its integration with mainstream Java
technologies like Struts and Hibernate. We'll even see some of the
patterns we've recently discussed reflected in Spring's code.

If you're programming Java today, you will find something in Spring to
help you out.

http://www.springframework.org/

Main Talk Biography:

Seth Ladd is the Chief Technical Architect for eHawaii.gov, our state's
Internet portal. He is in charge of directing the integration and
implementation of their federation of services. Seth enjoys development
without the hassle, semantic web technologies, and, of course, Hawaii's
beautiful weather.

Pattern Workshop: Prototype Pattern

Workshop Abstract:

Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance,
and create new objects by copying this prototype

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