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Meeting minutes from our last meeting available here

Meeting Announcement

The February meeting of the Orlando Java User Group is coming up on the 28th. We'll continue our tour of Central Florida with a stop in on International Drive. One of our members, Ian Cole, will be giving a presentation on J2EE titled "An Overview of J2EE". Please see the presentation summary below for more details.

Speaker: Ian Cole
Topic: "An Overview of J2EE"
Host: Starwood Vacation Ownership & RHIC
AGENDA:

When: February 28, 2002 (Thursday) at 6:30 PM
6:30 - 7:00 -- Refreshments
7:00 - 8:00 -- Presentation by Ian Cole
8:00 - 8:30 -- Q & A
8:00 - ? -- Networking

Where:
Sheraton's Vistana Villages, International Drive
12401 International Drive
Orlando, Florida 32821
Phone: (407) 238-5000

Directions are available.

RSVP: Please respond to rsvp@orlandojug.org that we can estimate the number of people attending the meeting.

Presentation Summary
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Overview of J2EE technologies designed for the person who is familiar with the Java language, but has little exposure to J2EE. Presentation will include explanations of core J2EE technologies, and examples for EJBs, Servlets, and JMS applications. This presentation is designed to act as a basis for future more in-depth explanation of J2EE technologies by other OJUG members.

Speaker Biography
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Ian Cole is the Director of Strategic Technologies for Starwood Vacation Ownership (SVO). In this role, he identifies and applies new technologies to satisfy needs within the SVO organization. Typical projects include the development of systems employing relational database and analytical technology, as well as the deployment of commercially available hardware and software.

Ian is currently enrolled in the Software Engineering program at Florida State University (Distance Learning), and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer as well as Microsoft Certified Database Administrator. Ian's past personal projects include a telecommunications application written in C++, a home automation server written in Visual Basic, and he is currently working on a new open source J2EE-based media server (www.xjms.com).

Please tell your co-workers and fellow Java enthusiasts. As always I hope to see you there.

-Brian

OJUG Program Chair

info (at) orlandojug (dot) org