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1. What is Ajax?
- Brief history and evolution of web technologies
2. Brief introduction of various Ajax tools available
3. Introduction to Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
4. Live demo and examples
5. Building enterprise applications with GWT and GWTiger Framework
6. Q&A

We will also have a free personal licence for IntelliJ IDEA to give away thanks to our sponsor JetBrains. And as always, it’s a fun time with some networking opportunities and free food!

Speaker BIO:

Aditya Kapur is Director of Global Software Developer at ACN Inc. based in Concord, NC and author of GWTiger Framework. Aditya has been developing software for over 15 years and has been a long time user and contributor for open source softwares. He has built several enterprise applications in his career and has recently completed building a large application with GWT and GWTiger framework.
He has a degree in engineering and an MBA from Walsh College, MI. He can be contacted at akapur@acninc.com

Websites:
http://www.acninc.com
http://www.checkAppointments.com

We are excited to welcome Les Hazlewood, creator of the JSecurity framework. His presentation will cover the following topics:

• Project History/Background
• Core Concepts/Terminology
• Authentication (logging in)
• Authorization (access control)
• Enterprise Session Management
• Cryptography Services
• Web & Framework Support (filters, interceptors, taglibs, Spring
  integration, etc)
• Demo
• Q&A

We will also have a free personal licence for IntelliJ IDEA to give away thanks to our sponsor JetBrains. And as always, it’s a fun time with some networking opportunities and free food!

Speaker BIO:

Les Hazlewood is the founder of the JSecurity framework and principal owner of Anjin, LLC, an enterprise software consulting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an active member of the open-source community and has committed or contributed to projects such as JBoss, Spring, Hibernate and others. Les’s specialty is in very large/high-volume clustered and distributed enterprise architectures. He is an avid Kendo practitioner, enjoys teaching, flying, and woodworking and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He may be contacted at les [at] hazlewood.com.A

This will be a great meeting for new Java developers, students and those coming to Java from .NET who want to get an overview of Java’s place in enterprise software development. This is also a good opportunity for seasoned veterans who want to see some of the latest J2EE tools and frameworks in action. And as always, it’s a fun time with some networking opportunities and free food!

We will begin by covering the following introductory topics:

• Purpose of J2EE
• J2EE Technology Landscape
• Basic MVC the J2EE Way
• Sample Program

We will then move into some more advanced subjects by looking at the powerful J2EE framework called Grails. This will include a demo where we will develop a complete web application leveraging the modern integrated development environment IntelliJ IDEA.

Speaker BIO:

Tyler Williams is an enterprise software developer with over 15 years of experience. He is principal at the local consulting firm DataTerrace.

Jaxcent is a Java-only API for AJAX. JavaScript programming is not required in Jaxcent, beyond adding a single JavaScript “include” statement to HTML content. Jaxcent works with standard Java servlet containers and provides classes matching elements of the Document Object Model (DOM), that can be instantiated to match HTML elements existing on the page. These classes provide methods for interacting with the HTML elements on the page, and for receiving events originating from the HTML element, all in Java. In addition to dynamic interactions with the HTML elements, Jaxcent also provides automatic session data management. The new release (V2) works with all AJAX compatible browsers.

Speaker BIO:

Mukesh Prasad has been in the software industry since pre-historic times (well, speaking in “internet time”) and has actually worked for now extinct dinosaurs such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Software Arts (Software Arts was the inventor of the spreadsheet.)

He has worked in C, C++, Java and C#. He worked as a consultant for a number of years, and in his free time developed various software packages and sites, that he now works on. Some of his work can be found at:

• http://www.ezjcom.com A bridge builder that allows calling COM from Java or Java from Visual Basic or C#. Jaxcent is an outgrowth of this project
• http://www.blazix.com A Java web/application server
• http://www.jsptut.com A JSP Tutorial site. Somewhat popular, usually ranks #1 in Google for “JSP Tutorial”
• Jaxcent is his latest project