Dear SVJUG members,

SVJUG April 17th(third tuesday) meeting is cohosted with
"Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG", thanks to Mike Van Riper
for leading the effort.

There is no change on the Venue, We will meet at
Tunis Conference Room at Googleplex (Scroll below for address)
Thanks

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

Time.......: April 17th,2007 (THIRD TUESDAY of each month)

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

Topic......: Project GlassFish: Open Java EE Application Server

Speaker....: Harpreet Singh, et al., Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com)

Description:

The GlassFish community is building free, open source,
production-quality, enterprise software. The main deliverables
are an Application Server, the Java EE 5 Reference Implementation,
and the Java Persistence API Reference Implementation,
TopLink Essentials. The community also delivers Maven
Repository, tools and much more. Engineers from
Sun Microsystems working on Project GlassFish will
present features in the current release, next release
and the surrounding ecosystem. Presenters will demonstrate
development specific features like Web 2.0 Technologies
and Web Services Interoperability Technology. Presenters
will also talk about deployment specific features like
clustering and availability offered by GlassFish.

Speaker Bio:

Harpreet Singh is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and
has been with Sun and Java for the last 7 years. He has spent
all of this time in various roles in the J2EE organization.
He has developed code for areas like Appllication Server security,
monitoring and webservices monitoring. He is currently delivering
GlassFish into Ubuntu. Harpreet is currently co-authoring a book
for Sun Web Component Developer Exam(to be released by Apress).
His blog can be found at http://blogs.sun.com/harpreet.

Ludovic Champenois is a Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems,
and has been with Sun and Java for the last 10 years. He is
one of the tech lead and architect on Sun's Application Server
and is responsible to ensure best in class developer experience
for Java EE programmers with Sun Application Server and tools.
(NetBeans, Studio Enterprise and Studio Creator). Ludovic is
also heavily involved in leading Sun's open source initiative
(Projects GlassFish, Phobos and jMaki). He is the co-author
of the NetBeans Field Guide book (Prentice Hall 2005 and 2006).
His blog can be found at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ludo

Kedar is GlassFish Management and Monitoring Architect. He
has been working with application server for past 6 years
on various areas like configuration management, monitoring
infrastructure, command line interface, administrative
security, JMX based remote connector development, custom
MBean support, SMF support for GlassFish server life cycle
management on Solaris-10. He is a member of JMX Expert
Group (JSR-003). His interests include Java, server side
programming, IDE Plugin development and web development.
Check out his blogs at: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/km
and http://blogs.sun.com/bloggerkeda

Shreedhar is the co-author and co-lead for Project Shoal,
a java based dynamic clustering framework on java.net.
He has been working with the application server for over
6 six years contributing to administration, management
and monitoring infrastructure of the product and has
special interest in distributed systems. He has also
contributed to GlassFish community development and
adoption in his role as the GlassFish Community Manager.
His blogs are at http://blogs.sun.com/shreedhar

Arun Gupta is a technology evangelist for Web services
and Web 2.0 technologies at Sun. He has been with Sun
for past 8 years working in different capacities and
multiple roles. He has been involved with the Web
services effort at Sun since the beginning and
contributed to multiple releases of JAX-RPC and JAX-WS.
He has represented Sun in W3C, WS-I and SOAP Builders.
He has presented at multiple conferences and has one
patent awarded and three pending related to XML technology.
You'll find him active at: http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta.

Agenda.....:
18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle with Food
Drinks & Snacks courtesy of -- Google Inc

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Harpreet Singh, et al.

Location...: Google, Inc.
Tunis Conference Room, (Bldg. 43)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,
Mountain View, CA

Map available at http://svjug.org/

Please enter from the north side of the building,
in the middle of the Google campus

Sponsors...: Google for Conference room and snacks.
http://www.google.com/

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

Our thanks to these great sponsors!

News, Offers
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JavaOne 2007 is from May 8-11th, Sun is offering
special discount to JUG members . Please use the
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