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Welcome to the NYC Java Meetup JUG (Java User Group), a http://www.nycjava.net/JSPWiki/javanet_button_90.png http://Java.net

Featuring the monthly NYC Java Meetup and the NYC Java Study Groups. We are an independent vendor neutral professional association of Java developers, collaborating on Java technologies for all levels of expertise. We feature expert speakers, study groups and networking.

We are the Java SIG (Special Interest Group) of the NYPC Users Group one of the oldest computer users group.

Pleae Note: If you are looking for info on the developers of the "Balance the Beer" game, please see Skylight1.

This JUG also has a forum at Yahoo Groups called nycjava_net. For more info stop by a meeting.

latest info and schedule of study groups follows below after general meeting info

October General Meeting - NYC Java Meetup

A very special guest speaker, coming all the way from the island of Crete, yes none other than Dr Heinz Kabutz will make a special appearance! This renown master Java specialist gave us an excellent presentation on the secrets of concurrency two years ago and this time will speak on the intricacies of reflection. In addition to his appearance at our group, he will also offer a Java Specialist Master Course on November 10-13 as part of Sun's Extreme Learning Workshop series here in NYC!

Speaker: Dr Heinz Kabutz

Topic: "Reflection Madness"

"In this presentation, we will look at some advanced uses of reflection to delegate method calls automatically, to determine where we are being called from and to create new enum values dynamically for unit test purposes, including modifying the switch statements on-the-fly. We will look at how we can use the stack information to determine the class type in a static context. We will demonstrate how Externalizable allows the private state of an object to be read and then modified. Lastly we will demonstrate how we can construct new objects without calling any of the available constructors. This talk will be aimed at the advanced Java specialist who does not shy away from reflection code. Topics from the Java Specialists Newsletter and related research."

Dr. Heinz Kabutz is best known as the creator of the Java Specialists' Newsletter, targeted to expert Java Developers. Since its inception in November 2000 the newsletter has grown to include an audience of more than 50,000 programmers in 120 countries and become one of the most widely distributed, independent Java Newsletters in the world. Dr. Kabutz uses the experience gained "in the field" to write articles in his publication and he was chosen as a Sun Java Champion.

A special thanks to Sun Microsystems for hosting location and refreshments!

Please note that this month's NYC Java Meetup is on the third Wednesday (not Monday) October 21 at 6pm

Location: Sun Microsystems - 101 Park Avenue (40th St), 4th Floor
please note: you will not be able to get past security w/o a full name in the comments of your RSVP! RSVP SOON at http://meetup.com/nycjava


And about the master course on November 10-13 as Dr Heinz would describe it: "This course embodies my Java knowledge and experience gained publishing 170 advanced Java newsletters, teaching hundreds of seminars and writing hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code."

This may sell out, so register soon: http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/EXL-3500.xml



NYCJava.net: Java Study Groups - meets at NYPC: New Yorker Hotel Suite 550 34th St and 8th Ave

SCJP Study Group - The fall/winter session will start next Monday, Oct 19, 6:30pm at NYPC (no rsvp but limited to 30 max (first come first serve). Chapter 1 of the K&B book (see link for book details) - note: book is required.

Java Mobile Study Group - for info contact study group leader (dario @ nycjava.net) We have opened the group up to new members with this new session on Thursday Oct 29, 6:30pm at NYPC - Open to all (no RSVP) but limited to 30 max (first come first serve). Ongoing topic is the Skylight1 open source game framework project where we have submitted our first application to the ADC2 and the Android Market. We will discuss and start designing/coding new projects (bring laptops) and we will feature an OpenGL tutorial at this meeting.

ALSO: vote for new study groups at the polls on either the yahoo group or at NYC Java Meetup



Previous Meetings:

September 21 (usually third Monday!) 2009 at 6:30pm at Sun Microsystems!
The Monthy NYC Java Meetup - featured topic: Java Mobile (featuring Android)


The special guest for the evening is Nathan Frietas (http://openideal.com)

Nathan will walk through his gReporter open-source Java Android app 'citizen journalists' tool that captures photo, audio and text reports, submitting them to a server along with geolocation data. This application was part of the NPR-supported TwitterVoteReport and InaugurationReport projects, along with Nathan's grant-funded Guardian Project (http://openideals.com/guardian), a secure smartphone being developed for human rights advocates, activists and journalists.

We will also have several short presentations on what we've (the Java mobile study group) learned with the open source project game framework that produced a game we've submitted to the ADC2 (Android Developer Challenge 2).

Please note other events on the Calendar - as posted previously, you can still RSVP for the free Java Tuning Seminar at Sun Microsystems on Sept 30 over here: http://javatuningseminar.eventbrite.com. The 4 day workshop is unfortunately already full.

We'll also be announcing and kicking off the fall sessions of our ongoing NYCJava.net study groups: SCJP 1.6 Plus, Java Mobile (new projects), and more.

If you'd like to present (any length) or sponsor a future location or refreshments please let us know! There is an announcement and open Q&A portion of the meeting so all (recruiters as well) are allowed to make announcements, pitch ideas, etc. We adjourn to a local bar afterwards.

Location: Sun Microsystems - 101 Park Avenue (40th St), 4th Floor
iplease note: you will not be able to get past security w/o a full name in the comments of your RSVP!/i(info)

Remember, every third Monday is the NYC Java Meetup - pass the word along!


door prizes, refreshments! - RSVP at http://meetup.com/nycjava


(Aug meeting was a social event at Central Park)

Joint meeting with the newly formed NYC-GTUG -http://nyc-gtug.org (Google Technologies User Group) at Google on Monday July 20 2009!


Monday Jun 15 - The Monthly Java Meetup !

A special meeting at BugLabs to RSVP: http://meetup.com/nycjava

note: this is now filled but there is a waiting list


Monday May 18 - The Monthly Java Meetup !

A special meeting at Microsoft for details: http://meetup.com/nycjava

** March 18,19: Sun is having it's Community One East in NYC! - March 18 is free so join us there ! **

http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/east
check out the agenda - packed with sessions all day -

There is a special meetup scheduled at 2:30 on the 5th floor on the Marriott in the OpenSpaces area, Q&A with Sun and local user groups (that's us) - see you there




March General meeting: General Meetings are now joint meetings with NYC Java Meetup!

This will be a joint meeting with the NY Semantic Web Meetup (Rich Hickey returns to talk about Clousure!)

This is a special event at Sun Microsystems on March 19 - please RSVP at the Java Meetup link to the left!


February General meeting: General Meetings are now joint meetings with NYC Java Meetup!

Topic: Mobile Computing, featuring Android development (following networking, member presentations)

When: Thursday Februrary 26, 2009 6:00 PM sharp
Location: 220 East 23rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd ave), Suite 707 - please bring ID
RSVP: Click on NYC Java Meetup link on the left!

NYC Java Meetup Description: 2009 brings a new format, networking+refreshments and member presentations will precede guest lecturers.

January General meeting: General Meetings are now joint meetings with NYC Java Meetup!

When: January 26, 2009 6:00 PM sharp
Location: 220 East 23rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd ave), Suite 707 - please bring ID
Where: Click on NYC Java Meetup link on the left!

NYC Java Meetup Description: 2009 brings a new format, networking+refreshments and member presentations will precede guest lecturers.

New Monthly Themes:
January: JEE
February: Mobile Computing
March: Semantic Web

January Speaker: Reza Rahman

Session Title: Java EE 6: A Community Update

Abstract:
This session is the latest update on the progress of Java EE 6 (JSR 317). The aim of the session is both to inform as well as encourage feedback.

Java EE 6 brings a number of profound changes to the platform. It drops a handful of outdated APIs, breaks up the monolithic platform into profiles and aims to add extensibility points as well as adding useful enhancements like standardizing JNDI naming. We will explore all of these changes in this session. We will also briefly overview some of the most important JSRs being developed under the Java EE 6 umbrella such as JSF 2.0, WebBeans, EJB 3.1, JPA 2.0, JAX-RS and Servlet 3.0.

A central goal of this session is open-ended discussion, so please do feel free to bring your questions, comments and ideas.

Bio:
Reza Rahman is an independent consultant specializing in Java EE with clients across the greater Philadelphia and New York metropolitan areas. He is the co-author of "EJB 3 in Action" from Manning Publishing. Reza is a member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups. He is a frequent speaker at seminars, conferences and Java user groups as well as an avid contributor to TheServerSide. He is currently working on implementing EJB 3.1 Lite for the Spring framework and application platform.

Reza has been working with Java EE since its inception in the mid-nineties. He has developed enterprise systems in the financial, healthcare, telecommunications and publishing industries. Reza has been fortunate to have worked with EJB 2, Spring, EJB 3 and Seam.


Note: Announcements and unconference style short member presentations will now precede the lecture.

Also there will be a suggested donation to pay for pizza/refreshments at the beginning of the meeting unless of course a sponsor steps up to offer to sponsor refreshments. Please contact the organizers if interested in sponsoring. Please note earlier start time this month: 6:00pm sharp.

Learn more and RSVP here at NYC Java Meetup link on the left


Previous Meetings:

November Topic: EJB 3.1: A Community Update

6:30pm 76 Ninth Avenue (between 15th/16th St), 13th floor - RSVP required - email garyrusso @ hotmail.com

Abstract:

This session explores the latest features proposed in EJB 3.1 (JSR 318). The aim of the session is both to inform as well as encourage feedback.

EJB 3.0 was a radical transformation geared towards usability. EJB 3.1 aims to go further down the path of simplicity while adding a number of useful features. In this session we will see all of the features that have been discussed in the expert group so far such as optional interfaces, singleton beans with concurrency control, annotation-driven cron-like scheduling, asynchronous processing support, easier deployment, as well as EJB lite. We will also take a look at the features still being discussed such as standardized JNDI naming as well as support for running EJB 3.1 in Java SE environments.

The session will leave time for open-ended discussion, so feel free to bring your thinking hat!


Bio:

Reza Rahman is the founder of Cognicellence, a small boutique Java EE consulting shop in the Baltimore-NYC corridor. He is the co-author of "EJB 3 in Action" from Manning Publishing. Reza is a member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups. He is a frequent speaker at seminars, conferences and Java user groups as well as an avid contributor to TheServerSide. He is currently working on the EJB 3.1 Lite implementation for the Spring framework and application platform. Reza has been working with Java EE since its inception in the mid-nineties. He has developed enterprise systems in the publishing, financial, telecommunications and manufacturing industries. Reza has been fortunate to have worked with EJB 2, Spring, EJB 3 and Seam.



October meeting: Once again a joint meeting - so be sure to catch the monthly NYC Java Meetup! RSVP soon as it's almost full:

Monday, October 20 - (in same building as the Google) - 6:15-9pm - full name required with RSVP - bring photoID

Full details at: http://java.meetup.com/59


September meeting: Joint Meeting with NYC Java Meetup (see link on the left side)

topics included: Grails, SCJP, Java 7, and more (door prize)
Aug General Meeting: a special meeting: we are hosting the Semantic Web Meetup

'note: please rsvp at above meetup.com link - (if filled you can still show up bring id)

Topic: Clojure for the Semantic Web Exploration

Meetup Track: This Session is hands on and technical

Speakers: Rich Hickey and David Siegel

Rich Hickey will join forces with the New York Semantic Web Meetup to extend Clojure for the use in the development of Semantic Web applications.

http://clojure.org

Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

Session prep:

Introduction to Clojure (from June's General Meeting below)
http://blip.tv/file/9...


June General Meeting:

Topic: Clojure for Java Programmers

Presentation now available online (with audio):
(Thanks Rich!)
http://clojure.blip.tv/file/982823

Speaker: Rich Hickey

Clojure http://clojure.org is a dynamic functional programming language for the JVM. This talk will provide an overview of Clojure, including a gentle introduction to its syntax for those with no prior experience with Lisp, an overview of features, and a discussion of Java integration. Also covered will be Clojure's approach to functional programming, immutability, and concurrency and how they help solve some of the problems faced by Java programmers using threads and locks today.

Bio:

Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening, in a variety of languages.

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Current Study Groups:

SCJP 6 (Sun Certified Java Programmer Certification) study group - stop by any meeting and join the Yahoo group!

Advanced Java study group (covering EJB 3, design patterns, advanced topics)
- join yahoo group if interested! -



Past NYC Java Study Groups JUG General Meetings (previous meetings slides available)



Other NYC Java events and meetings:

NYC Java Meetup:
The monthly Java networking event - every third Monday (RSVP at link
(presentation, discussions, networking) - door prizes to rsvp please check the link above.

The NYJavaSIG.com JUG (usually 3rd Wed at Google - RSVP at link)
sign up to mailing list as this fills up as soon as it's announced

Additional JUGs/Meetups in tri-state area:
Princeton NJ JUG
Connecticut JUG
The Northern NJ Java Meetup Group

Note: for additional JUGs in NJ/CT/PA/MA areas please see the complete JUG list over at http://java.net



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