The Feburary January UJUG Meeting is on Thursday, February 21, 2008

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Please RSVP so we can order the right amount of food.

Plus the following breakouts:

Java/.NET 3.x Web Service Interoperability using Project Metro

Presented by Harold Carr of Sun Microsystems

Harold Carr is the lead architect for enterprise web services interoperability at Sun Microsystems - enabling atomic transactions, reliable messaging and security between Java and Windows Communications Foundation. Previous to this role he was responsible for RMI-IIOP load-balancing and fail-over in the Sun Java System Application Server (SJSAS). He designed the core architecture used in Sun's CORBA ORB and in the JAX-RPC 2.0 reference implementation and the scalable socket communications architecture used in SJSAS HTTP and IIOP remoting. He helped write the OMG Portable Object Adapter specification and was chairperson of the OMG Portable Interceptor specification. Previous to Sun, he did distributed computing research at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories and Schlumberger Research Laboratories, was Chief Architect of Visual Lisp technology at Autodesk, and was a logic simulation consultant for Cirrus Logic. He holds a Ph.D., in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Java and .NET - Best of Both Worlds

Integrating and extending Java Solutions with complementary .NET technologies 

Presented by Kevin Wittkopf of Microsoft

Since joining Microsoft in spring 2003, Kevin has worked as a Solutions Architect in the GISV Architecture Team (and currently leads that team), focused on providing technical guidance to ISVs on adoption and interoperability with .NET platform, tools, etc. from competitive and Microsoft legacy platforms (Java/J2EE, Oracle, C++, etc). He also has provided guidance on leading architecture approaches such as SOA, SaaS, etc. Prior to this role, Kevin was an independent consultant, operating as architect/technical team lead and mentor on several J2EE-based distributed systems, predominantly on BEA WebLogic Server, and Architect on J2EE/EJB development tools. He has extensive experience in the domains of Oil and Gas, Telecomm, Financial Services to name a few. He is also co-author of the book “J2EE AntiPatterns” from Wiley Technical Publications.