September '08 Meeting Summary

[scott.s...@sun.com]

Hi All,

Thanks once again for your participation last night as we reviewed our
goals and defined some next steps. Here is a summary of the meeting
and some additional notes, please feel free to comment!

Our 'to do' list:

* Get wireless access in the meeting room
* Transition the existing website, add 'Web 2.0' features
* Get contacts for other user groups in the region (send me your
contacts)
* Contact publishers for book deals or reviews
* Consider speaking or help identify candidates for speaking (see
topics below)

Topics for future meetings:

* Glassfish
* Performance Tuning
* RIA Technologies (JavaFX, Silverlight, Flex, others), plus panel
discussion
* Case Study on JEE Deployment and Scalability
* Adopting Open Source technologies
* Java Game Development
* JavaME (mobile)
* UI Design Using MVC Model (or web tier design)
* Testing Approaches and Best Practices
* .NET Comparison and Interoperability
* OSGi
* Best Practices and Lessons Learned
* Selecting the Right Tools and Frameworks
* GWT (This topic is schedule for next month)

Group Projects:

* Java Language for Beginners
- Utilize Java Passion curriculum at http://javapassion.com
- Allocate 15 minutes at the beginning of each meeting for
review
* Java Certification
- Form group for those interested

New Business:

* Software Freedom Day
- Scheduled for the end of October
- Participate! See http://opensource.meetup.com/97 for more
info
- http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Thanks,
Scott

[Scott Nicol]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:10 PM, <scott.s...@sun.com> wrote:

  * .NET Comparison and Interoperability

Sorry I couldn't make it, I have other commitments Wednesday nights for the next few months at least.

On .NET, I've been meaning to put together a talk about something it appears that nobody has heard of, ikvm:

http://www.ikvm.net/

It's a side project from Mono (an open source .NET), which implements a JVM in .NET.  It will also compile java classes to .NET, and allows calls between java classes and .NET.  Pretty neat stuff, we've been playing with it for a year or two but haven't released product using it (yet).  With some exceptions, performance is better than Sun's JVM (on Windows).

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Scott Nicol
scott...@gmail.com