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Meeting....: Silicon Valley Java Users Group (SVJUG)

Time.......: July 14,2004 (second Wednesday of each month)

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

Topic......: An Architectural Overview of Apache Geronimo

Speaker....: Jeremy Boynes, CTO GlueCode Software
(http://www.gluecode.com) &
Commiter Apache Geronimo http://geronimo.apache.org/

Description:

The talk focus on the core architecture of the
container and how it faciliates integration with
application frameworks such as J2EE or Spring in
a way that eliminates the overhead associated with older
containers and supports rapid iterative development

Speaker Bio:

Jeremy Boynes joined Gluecode Software as
Chief Technology Officer with over 20 years experience
in enterprise computing. He is a founding partner of
Core Developers Network, a consultancy group of
leaders in the open-source Java community who
focus on the corporate Enterprise and targeted
expertise in the creation, execution and development
of mission-critical open source projects and
infrastructure. Prior to Gluecode, he successfully
led multi-million dollar projects for Cisco Systems,
BT and the UK Employment Service as Technical Architect
for Sequent Computer Systems. As Chief Architect for
Bravanta and for Netmosphere, he played roles in
ensuring their success by leveraging open source
technologies. Boynes is actively involved in the
Apache Geronimo J2EE project, as well as projects
at OpenEJB and ObjectWeb. His technical specialties
include database systems and application security.
He earned his Masters Degree in Electrical Sciences
from the University of Cambridge.


Agenda.....:
18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle with Food
Pizza & Soda courtesy of Gluecode software Inc (www.gluecode.com)

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Jeremy Boynes

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.
http://www.netscape.com/

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

Our thanks to these great sponsors!

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