[Clev-jug] November Meeting -- this Wednesday

[Maciej Zawadzki]

Finally, we're actually going to have a JUG meeting again.  This time
despite the fact that I will be out of town -- no, I don't actually
schedule these trips to overlap the JUG :)  Ryan Smith from Urbancode is
going to take over my usual job during the meeting -- minus the heckling
of the speaker :)

The speaker this month will be Cleveland's own Eric Williams.  He will
present on the Google Web Toolkit -- details below.

For next month, I'm trying to get BEA to do a presentation.  Normally we
don't have meetings in December, but I though of having a special
make-up.  Since the second Wednesday of December is getting close to the
holidays, how about the first Wednesday, the 6th?



Abstract:

Imagine your next web application, written entirely in Java. No HTML, no
JSP, no tag libraries. "Yeah right," you're thinking. But with the
Google Web Toolkit (GWT), no kidding, you can do it. The Google Web
Toolkit (GWT), announced earlier this year at JavaOne, has created a lot
of interest. GWT is a Java framework for creating AJAX style web
applications. You write your user interface in Java, much like you would
with Swing or SWT, but the resulting application runs as Javascript on a
web browser.

This presentation is will give you a basic sense of what the Google Web
Toolkit is, what kinds of applications you can build, and how you
develop those applications. You'll also get a first-hand account of one
team's experiences with the framework.

* What is the Google Web Toolkit?
* The whirlwind tour
* A real live application (see what we've been up to)
* How do I develop and what does the code look like?
* Postcards from the [bleeding] edge (our experiences with GWT)



Bio:

Eric Williams has been designing and building software for over 15
years. Currently, he is the Director of Product Architecture at
Everstream in Solon, OH. He has held roles as an Enterprise Architect,
Mentor, Consultant, Manager, and Developer for a variety of companies,
including JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, Sprint, and several startups. Eric
started his involvement with Java in 1995, and was a contributing author
on persistence and multithreading for Tricks of the Java Programming
Gurus.



Thanks,

--Maciej