Greetings!
Make sure and join us Tuesday, January 13th for our 1st BJUG meeting of 2009! We have two great sessions for you to enjoy featuring the 6:00 PM session on Groovy Testing and the 7:30 PM session on iPhone Integration to Java Web Services. Make plans to join us!
Big Thanks to Big Sky Technology (www.bigskytechnology.com) who pays for our meeting room rental every month and Tek-Systems (www.teksystems.com) who pays for our food each month! We appreciate your support!!
EVENT: January 2009 BOULDER JAVA USER GROUP MEETING
DATE: January 13, 2008
LOCATION: Wolf Law Building, Room #207
2450 Kittredge Loop Road
Boulder, CO 80309
TIME: 6:00 PM start with Pizza/Drinks being served @ 7:00 PM
6:00 - 7:00 PM Groovy Testing by Frederic Jean
Groovy's syntax and meta-programming abilities provides powerful means to simplify writing unit tests for your applications. Frederic will explore using Groovy, JUnit 4 and JMockit to test Java applications and work around some of the challenges that arise in modern Java applications.
Bio: Frederic Jean is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He focuses on using dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy to build and test complex applications. He is currently working on Project Kenai which provides a hosting facility for Sun's many Open Source Projects.
Frederic first learned about Groovy in 2005 when he was looking for a way to simplify writing unit tests for Sun's update delivery infrastructure code. He has been an advocate for it's use within Sun since.
7:00 - 7:30 PM Pizza/Drinks - Networking
7:30 - 9:00 PM iPhone Objective-C integration to Java Web Services by Matthew McCullough
iPhone development is all the rage both in the mobile entertainment, social networking, and productivity application spaces. As a Java developer, prepare yourself to be a participant in aspects of this new breed and platform of development. Hop on board with a quick start to iPhone application coding in Objective C and integration with some of our favorite Java web service back-ends such as Axis, JSR311 Jersey, Spring-WS, and more.
We'll build out a graphical demo application on the iPhone that depends on and responds to data from a Java web service; then we'll deploy it live to the desktop simulator, and finally, a real iPhone. This presentation will make you conversant in iPhone development procedures and able to make smart decisions about your back end Java web services ability to serve data to iPhone native client apps.
Bio: Matthew McCullough is an energetic 12 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. He is an outspoken advocate for the use of open source libraries in enterprise applications. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O'Reilly, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group.
His experience includes successful J2EE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, financial management, and telecommunications firms, and development of several open source libraries. Matthew jumps at opportunities to evangelize, present, and educate teams on the benefits of open source. His current focuses are Maven, iPhone and Android applications, and OSS debugging tools.
