Dear SVJUGers,
Happy Holidays, we are meeting this month(this wednesday), Patrick
Linskey will be presenting on "Future of JDO", Patrick is CTO of
Solarmetric and have been working in JDO from the early days.

Also look below the SJVUG meeting announcement for BEA UG meeting.

Happy Holidays

Venki

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

Time.......: December 8th,2004 (second Wednesday of each month)

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

Topic......: The Future of Object Persistence

Speaker....: Patrick Linskey, Solarmetrics
(http://www.solarmetrics.com)

Description:

This session will cover the Oracle Application
Development Framework (ADF) and what impact it
will have on building applications with JavaServer
Faces (JSF) and Oracle's ADF Faces components.
This session also details the features ADF Faces
brings to JSF developers such as a mature,
professional-quality component set as well as a
set of framework features including client-side
validation, page-flow scope, PPR, dialog
framework, etc... At the end of the session there
will be sneak preview of the current rich
web client work in progress at Oracle.

The recent announcement by Sun Microsystems about
the EJB and JDO specification teams collaborating
on a common persistence API was driven by requests
from the Java community. The collaboration will
result in the development of a new specification
that incorporates the best of parts of the JDO and
EJB standards. Like JDO, this common persistence API
will work in and out of the container. Additionally,
JDO 2.0 will continue to push forward, sharing many
aspects of the new persistence specification e.g.,
object/relational mapping metadata, but adding
functionality that will go beyond the scope of the
new persistence specification. In this presentation,
we will highlight the current status of the new
persistence specification and the details of the
JDO 2 specification. We will highlight how developers
can use the JDO specification, available today, as
the perfect migration path to the new persistence
specification and how products supporting both
specifications can provide interoperability between
the two standards. Finally, in this presentation,
we will highlight criteria to look at when you
evaluate different persistence solutions.

Speaker Bio:

Patrick Linskey has been working with Java Data Objects
for over 3 years and has been involved in object/relational
mapping for 5+ years. As the founder and CTO of
SolarMetric, Patrick drives the technical direction of the
company. Patrick is a luminary on JDOcentral, a
consortium committed to marketing the JDO standard.
Patrick has been the primary evangelist for JDO,
having publicly spoken to rave reviews in numerous
cities over the past 2 years. He has been one of the
leaders on the JDO specification team, currently
helping drive the JDO 2.0 specification and will be
SolarMetric's representative on the new POJO persistence
specification proposed by Sun.

Patrick is co-author of Bitter EJB, one of the more
popular Java books in 2003. Patrick has also worked
for TechTrader, MIT's Media Lab and Bank One in
various technical roles. Under Patrick's leadership,
SolarMetric has developed the market leading JDO
implementation with nearly 300 customers throughout
the world spanning all industries. Patrick holds a B.S. in
Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Agenda.....:
18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle with Food
Pizza & Soda courtesy of -- Solar Metrics

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Patrick Linskey

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!
******* Partner Message **********
Please join us for the December BEA User Group meeting on Wednesday,
December 8 at 6:00 p.m. at the Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto.
Yogish Pai, CTO of BEA's IT organization will be presenting on "Adopting
SOA".

Admission is free and refreshments will be served. Please register at:
http://contact2.bea.com/bea/www/usergroups/register.jsp?PC=UG04-D2D so
that we have accurate count. In conjunction with the presentation, we
will be raffling a 3-day SOA class valued at $2000. Don't miss out!

Event:BEA dev2dev Silicon Valley User Group Meeting

Description: Adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at BEA

Date/Time: December 8, 2004 - 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location:Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA
ROOM H1

Agenda:
6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Registration, Networking, Refreshments
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Adopting Service-Oriented Architecture
8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Q&A, raffle and planning for next meeting
Logistics:
For more information, contact Hien Luu hluu@... or visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svbug

Registration:
http://contact2.bea.com/bea/www/usergroups/register.jsp?PC=UG04-D2D

Invitation:
BEA-IT is responsible for delivering solutions to the various business
units within BEA. This includes developing solution such as eBusiness,
enterprise applications, integration and enterprise data management
capability. BEA-IT has been successful in providing the solutions rapidly
to business by adopting SOA. In this presentation we shall explain the
meaning of SOA to us and how we went about building out the infrastructure
leveraging the BEA Platform.

In conjunction with the presentation, we will be raffling a 3-day SOA
class valued at $2,000 courtesy of BEA’s Education team. The course
provides detailed, technical training on Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) leveraging BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. This training provides an
in-depth analysis of SOA and how BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 supports it.
You will be able to design and develop an SOA with a layered architecture
model and deploy your solution on BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.

Speaker Bio:

Yogish Pai is the CTO of IT at BEA Systems, where he is responsible for
enterprise architecture. Yogish has over 18 years of and has been with
BEA for 2 years. Prior to BEA, Yogish held various management positions
including CTO at CellExchange, Director of Architecture at Oracle
Corporation and Initiative Manager at The Coca-Cola Company. Yogish has
an M.S in CS from Bombay University and B.S. in Physics from Gujarat
University.

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