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Java SIG

The Java Special Interest Group is a forum for discussing the Java programming language and its use. Java SIG members are encouraged to speak and share their expertise. Other speakers have ranged from Sun's James Gosling (the "Father" of the Java language), to experts on the APIs and improvements that have been added in recent years. In addition, architects of Java development techniques and tools, and representatives of companies using the language and tools to build applications are often invited to demonstrate and talk about their products and services. We meet on the first Tuesday of each month.

Sponsors:

The Java SIG is sponsored by:
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and IBM.

Next Meeting:

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM October 5, 2010

Cubberley Community Center, Room H-1

4000 Middlefield Road

Palo Alto, CA

Speaker: Gilad Bracha

Bio: Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language. He is currently a VP at SAP Labs in Palo Alto focusing on programming models for the cloud. Previously, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Topic: Newspeak: A Principled Dynamic Language

Newspeak is a dynamic programming language focused on software engineering. Newspeak takes the mantra "program to an interface rather than an implementation" seriously. The language has no global namespace and no static state, and all names are late bound - including class names. All classes in Newspeak are virtual, every class declaration defines a mixin, and class hierarchy inheritance comes for free.

Newspeak is highly modular: dependency injection is unnecessary, the factory pattern is baked in and side-by-side deployment is trivial. Module definitions can be compiled in any order because they have no external dependencies.

The talk will explain how Newspeak achieves this on a very simple semantic foundation, and demonstrate the system in action.

Location:
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA 94105

Agenda:
6:45-7:00 Doors open. Networking. Pizza.
7:00-9:00 Presentations

Price:
$15 at the door for non-SDForum members
No charge for SDForum members
No registration required

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Past Events:

August 3, 2010	Java SIG: JavaFX latest update
July 6, 2010	Java SIG: Graphing with Entrance & Maximising Java Performance on Spring/Vmware
June 1, 2010	Java SIG: Securing Applications with Apache Shiro
May 4, 2010	Java SIG: Agile Java & Introducing the Spring MVC
April 6, 2010	Java SIG - How to build a multi-tenancy online development platform in Java
March 2, 2010	Java SIG: Test-Driven JavaScript with ScrewUnit and BlueRidge

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Resources:

June 3, 2010	Securing Applications with Apache Shiro (PDF)
November 12, 2009	Key-value in the cloud: a comparison of cloud storage providers (Powerpoint)
October 16, 2009	Automated Testing for Java Web Applications (PDF)
September 4, 2008	Mobile Internet and Scalable Backend Architecture using ehcache and EJB 3.0 (Powerpoint)
August 7, 2008	Developing Rich Applications with JSF and AJAX (Powerpoint)
August 7, 2008	Rich Internet Applications Using Flex 2, Ajax and Java (other files)
August 7, 2008	Glassbox: Open Source Automatic Application Troubleshooting (other files)
August 7, 2008	Advanced Analytic Applicatins with Java Data Mining (other files)

SIG Chairs:

Ovidiu Feodorov: Ovidiu spends most of his time between middleware consulting engagements, starting new technology companies and watching movies. His primary area of expertise is Java-based Open Source middleware, but he's currently making incursions into the semantic web world, and he also likes to try to understand people he comes accross with. Ovidiu spent a small, but very significant part of his career interacting with the large assortment of pre-acquisition JBoss types, as Messaging Lead. He is currently the founder and principal of Nova Ordis LLC, a software development consultancy.

Rich Rein: has 32 years of broad software development experience and leadership; 8 years of engineering team management and mentoring; and 24 years of pure engineering for video, communications, storage, embedded, real-time and business applications, large-scale servers, distributed systems, embedded systems, operating system internals, communications, drivers, storage, and databases. He currently co-chairs the Java SIG

Sudish Rema: Manager Frameworks at Fujitsu Network Communications co-chair of the JAVA SIG.

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