DENVER
JAVA USERS GROUP
http://www.denverjug.org AGENDA
5:30-6 p.m. Food, and Networking.
6-7 p.m. Basic Concepts ? Scott Davis on Apache Axis
Web services combines several commonplace technologies and offers up an entirely new way to transfer messages/data between geographically disparate systems. XML is the basis of Web Services, but the open source framework AXIS hides much of the XML implementation from you. Come see how easy it is to use
Tomcat, Axis, and the client-side software of your choice to start publishing your own Web Services.
7-7:15 p.m. Announcements
7:15-8:30 p.m. David Geary on JavaServer Faces
Although Enterprise Java (
J2EE) is still the most popular platform for developing Web applications, Microsoft's .NET has gained considerable market share over the past two years. One of the foremost reasons for .NET's inroads is its ease-of-use; whereas J2EE is arguably more powerful than .NET, the latter is generally regarded as easier to use due to two .NET features that J2EE currently lacks: a rich component model that makes it easy to develop custom components and an
IDE (Visual Studio) that greatly facilitates Web application development.
J2EE's answer to .NET is JavaServer Faces (
JSF), which provides a Web application framework and a rich component model. The framework, which is similar to the popular Apache
Struts application framework, gives IDE vendors a standard they can base an IDE on. Currently, there are approximately 35 J2EE Web application frameworks, which gives developers many choices, but makes IDE vendors reluctant to implement an IDE for a particular framework. With the standard Web application framework specified by JavaServer Faces, IDE vendors will be more willing to implement an IDE that can compete favorably with Microsoft's Visual Studio; indeed, many of the experts on the JavaServer Faces Expert Group are IDE vendors.
David Geary is the president of Sabreware, Inc., a Java training and consulting company. David has developed object-oriented software for nearly 20 years and worked on the Java APIs at Sun Microsystems from 1994 to 1997. He is the author of six Java books, including the Graphic Java series, Advanced JavaServer Pages, and Core JSTL. David is a member of the expert groups for the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and JavaServer Faces; was one of the earliest contributors to the Apache Struts application framework; and wrote
test questions for Sun's Web Component Developer Exam. In his spare time, David writes the Java Design
Patterns column and other articles for JavaWorld online. David is currently working on Core JavaServer Faces, which will be published by Sun Microsystems Press in the Fall of 2003.
8:30 p.m. Door prizes
? E-book from Manning Publications (
http://www.manning.com)
? $20 gift certificate and books from Softpro Books (
http://www.softpro.com)
? Free Registration to RMSS from No Fluff, Just Stuff (
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com)
DIRECTIONS
Qwest Auditorium is located downtown Denver at
1005 17th St, Denver, CO 80202. The building entrance
you want is located on 17th and Arapahoe. For maps, see:
http://www.denverjug.org/events/location.html SPONSORS
Thanks to our regular Denver JUG sponsors for supporting the Java community:
- Qwest for providing facilities (
http://www.qwest.com)
- MicroStaff for providing food (
http://wwwmicrostaff.com)
- ITT Technical Institute for providing food (
http://www.itt-tech.edu)
- EvolutionHosting for providing web hosting (
http://www.evolutionhosting.com)
See all sponsors:
http://www.denverjug.org/community/sponsors.html QUESTIONS
If you have questions about Denver JUG,
please visit the website or contact Scott Davis,
[email protected] If you are interested in speaking at a Denver JUG meeting,
please contact Tom McQueeney at:
[email protected] If your company is interested in sponsoring Denver JUG events,
please contact Greg Ostravich at:
[email protected] Thanks and hope to see you there!
- Greg Ostravich
Vice President Marketing
[email protected] http://www.denverjug.org
