The May meetup will take place on Tuesday 13th in the Forum bar on Lord Edward Street (opposite Dublin Castle/City Hall - Google Maps). Jake will be back fresh from JavaOne and promises to have loads of Swag to give away. We'll also be setting the agenda for the next few months.
All are welcome.
I was at an awesome presentation yesterday at JavaOne of the long tail of Java tools that not many people have come across, which I had to share. So, in no particular order, and with my own emotive comments:
jBPM is an open source BPM and workflow engine under the JBoss umbrella. In contrast to other BPM engines, it can be deployed as a simple jar file in your classpath. It doesn't even need an application server. It works in any Java environment like standard Java, enterprise Java, SEAM and Spring.
Irish JUG Members,
I am half Irish (O'Dunne) but look German, so I don't think that's going to win me any points with you guys. I thought it gave me the right to join you, however, after trying all morning to reach your President with this message. Please know that this is the only JUG to which I belong at the monment, and I would very like to remain a member permanently. JUGs have been very supportive of my work in the past.
Java Champion Jim Weaver will be in Dublin in June/July running a 2.5 day "boot camp"-style tech session on the hottest thing in Rich Client application at the moment - JavaFX!
From the annals of the JUG leaders' mailing list:
JDJ has just posted an interview discussing the details of a money grant that Sun is giving for developers to work on open source projects.
The idea is that developers can submit ideas, and the best ideas will receive a money grant to be implemented. Developers can submit ideas in teams or individually. The prizes are very good, and may interest developers in your area.
http://jdj.sys-con.com/read/503097.htm
For Java developers, there is much more then the NetBeans contest that is referred to in the above interview. Java developers can work on projects related to NetBeans, Glassfish and OpenJDK:
The Irish Web technology Conference, the sister event of the IJTC Conference takes place in CineWorld at the end of the month. The event's aim is to showcase the Irish Web Industry. It's a four day event with a total of 10 track, and 50 session.
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