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Reminder:
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This is a friendly reminder from SVJUG on it's meeting tomorrow
5/14/03,6.30 PM @ Netscape communications, Mountain View.
Ash Parikh from Iopsis Inc. will be speaking on "Extending Web Services to
real world". Lot of books & Giveaways from IBM,O'rielly will be raffled.

See you all!

Thanks,

Venki
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Venki Seshaadri
President, Silicon Valley Java Users Group
sjvug-admin@yahoogroups.com | http://svjug.org
408.910.8721

------------- Free Briefing & Conference by Date -------------------------

1. BEA& SDForm on Weblogic Internals May 15th
(http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1088&mo=5&yr=2003)

2. BEA Dev2Dev Event : May 22nd Palto-Alto
http://dev2dev.bea.com/community/usergroups/may_tour.jsp

3. IBM Developer Works : eBusiness on Demand Technical
5/30 , San Francisco
6/09 , San Jose
http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks/offers/techbriefings/
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Meeting....: Silicon Valley Java Users Group (SVJUG)

Time.......: May 14th, 2003 (second Wednesday of each month)

Cost.......: Always FREE to all!

Topic......: Extending Web Services to the Real World

Speaker....: Ash Parikh,Sr.Manager Engineering & Architecture,
Iopsis Inc(http://www.iopsis.com)

Description:

This will be an interactive session in which
attendees will be led through discussions on
Web services applicability in the current
contexts and how Web services could be
applied to real world scenario using
business process paradigms and strategies

Speaker Bio:

Ash Parikh is the Sr. Manager of Engineering
and Architecture, with the Emerging Technology Group
at Iopsis Software, Inc. He is a named expert in
the field of Distributed Computing, has authored
abstracts for BEA e-World 2002, Java One 2002 and
Java One 2003. He developed the first prototype for
J2ME Web services, a paradigm earlier thought of as
impossible to pull-off on limited footprint devices,
while at BEA Systems. He has over 10 years of computer
and IT experience, including expertise in object-oriented
analysis and design,distributed architecture, middleware
architecture and software design and development. He is
also the President of the Bay Area Chapter of the
Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, an initiative
close to his heart, through which he evangelizes various
software architecture paradigms.

He recently co-authored a book through Osborne Press titled
"Oracle9iAS Building J2EE Applications", ISBN: 0072226145,
November 2002. He is the author of a two-part series of
technical articles in Web Services Journal, titled
"Extending Web services to the Real World," March 2003
and "Web Services and Portal Technology", April 2003.

He is also a member of the Expert Group for JSR 188
"CC/PP Processing," JSR 205 "Wireless Messaging API 2.0,"
on the Java Community Process standards body.

Agenda.....:
18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle with Food
Pizza courtesy of Iopsis Inc.
(http://www.iopsis.com).

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Ash Parikh

Location...: Netscape Communications, Inc.
Planet Mo'z Dining Room
468 Ellis Street (Bldg. 22)
Mountain View, CA

Map available at http://svjug.org/

After turning onto Ellis from Middlefield, you will
pass 2 big blue glass buildings on the right. Turn
left into the 3 big brown stone buildings just after
the blue buildings. The 3rd brown building at the
end is Building 22. The Planet M'oz Conference room
is at the south West end of the building.

Sponsors...: Netscape provides our meeting room & Sodas.
http://www.netscape.com/

Croftsoft provides our domain hosting.
http://www.croftsoft.com/

Our thanks to these great sponsors!


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