Dear SVJUG members,

SVJUG March 18th(third tuesday) meeting is cohosted with "Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG".

We will be meeting at Tunis Conference Room, Google (Scroll below for address)
Advanced Registration is required to be part of give-away drawing. You can register at:
http://sv-web-jug-2.eventbrite.com/

Thanks

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

Time.......: March 18th, 2008 (THIRD TUESDAY of each month)

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

Topic......: Scala and JRuby

Speaker....: Bill Venners and Pramod Gopinath

Description:

Scala fuses object-oriented and functional programming concepts into an elegant,
statically typed programming language for the Java Platform. The name Scala
stands for "SCAlable LAnguage." It is scalable in the sense that it is designed
to be useful in a wide range of tasks, scaling up to very large programs written
by many people and down to short scripts written by individuals. The conciseness
and expressiveness of Scala gives it the feel of dynamic languages such as Python
or Ruby, but Scala also provides a rich static type system that can help programmers
prevent errors. In this talk, Bill Venners will give an introduction and overview
of the Scala programming language.

JRuby is a 100% pure Java implementation of the Ruby language. JRuby can be
embedded into any Java application providing for two way interaction between
Ruby and Java. JRuby enables easy adoption of Ruby in the enterprise environments
where Java is already prominent. JRuby gives Rails the power and functionality of
Java. GlassFish is an open source Java EE5 compliant application server. Java EE is
a long tested deployment environment and by combining the benefits of GlassFish
with JRuby, we should be able to provide the best deployment environment for Rails
applications. In this talk, Pramod Gopinath would be giving an introduction of JRuby
and GlassFish support for JRuby - Rails applications


Speaker Bio:

Bill Venners is president of Artima, Inc., publisher of Artima Developer
(www.artima.com). He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine,
a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform&aposs architecture and internals.
His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design,
and Jini. Active in the Jini Community since its inception, Bill led the Jini
Community&aposs ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard
way to associate user interfaces to Jini services. Bill is also the lead developer and
designer of ScalaTest, an open source testing tool for Scala and Java developers.

Pramod Gopinath works at Sun Microsystems and is a member of GlassFish open source
community. As part of the GlassFish team he is responsible for the GlassFish and JRuby
integration. As part of this effort he has published the GlassFish gem to RubyForge.
This gem helps users launch their Ruby On Rails application in a GlassFish V3 server
embedded within the JRuby VM. As part of the GlassFish team he has also worked on Phobos,
Java Persistence and EJB.

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

19:00-20:30 Presentation by Bill Venners and Pramod Gopinath

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 hosting.
http://www.croftsoft.com/

Our thanks to these great sponsors!

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