Meetings

Year 1999

Meeting Date Topic
January 1999  Jini
Jon Bostrom from Sun told us all about the architecture of Jini, Sun's Java technology for dynamically finding and providing services over the network.
February 1999 XML and Java
IBM alphaWorks'  talked about XML4J, their popular XML parser for Java,  and demonstrate how to make use of XML in your applications.
March 1999 Dynamic Software Distribution
Sami Shaio, Senior Engineer and Co-founder of  Marimba, Inc., spoke about the issues surrounding dynamic software distribution and outlined how the Castanet 4.0 architecture deals with them.
April 1999 Common Java Performance Issues and Solutions
Gordie Freedman, VP of Technology, Intuitive Systems, Inc., the creators of OptimizeIt told us where and how to look for improvements in our Java software.
May 1999 VM Performance Enhancement
Bob Dimpsey of IBM told us how they have improved the performance of their VM to beat out other in JavaWorld's latest Volano report and what to expect of VM performance in the near future.
June 1999  Peter Coad presented Java Modeling in Color with UML using domain-neutral components built from a template of 12 classes. You can find out more about this model in his new book.
July 1999 Sun's Java Swing Team presented some of their latest developments and future directions.
August 1999 No meeting.
September 1999
October 1999 The IBM San Francisco Project
The IBM SanFrancisco business components for Java is one of the largest Java products in the world. It provides a set of 100% pure Java business-specific classes which allow Independent Software Vendors to create and deploy distributed e-business applications.
November 1999 Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Mark Hapner, Lead Architect for J2EE, will present the rationale for the creation of a new Java platform for server-side application development and an overview of its features.
December 1999 No Meeting