The June UJUG Meeting is on Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:00PM - 9:00PM Please RSVP so we can order the right amount of food. Meeting Agenda | Time | Presenter | Topic | | 6:00 -7:00 | Chris Hansen
| Scala | 7:00 - 8:00
| Nikita Ivanov | GridGain 2.0 – Grid Computing Made Simple | 8:00 - 9:00
| Don Bogardus,
Chris Hansen & Dave Harvey
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Plus the following breakouts: | Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout | Presenter | | Java Certification (Chapter 7) | Don Bogardus | | Alternative Languages on the JVM | Dave Harvey,
Chris Hansen
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Scala Scala is the statically-typed programming language on the JVM that has generated a lot of interest lately. It has features like closures and mixins hat some say Java should have had years ago, and will likely get years from now. This presentation will provide an introduction to the language, some explanation of its design and a demonstration of its interaction with existing Java code and libraries. About the speaker Chris Hansen is a Senior Software Developer at Overstock.com. He is currently leading the series of UJUG breakout sessions on alternate languages on the JVM, which has already featured a couple of sessions on cala. He recently attended the first ever Scala conference (Scala lift off 2008), where he had the opportunity to interact with important members of the Scala community, including the language's designer, Martin Odersky.
GridGain 2.0 – Grid Computing Made Simple
The topic of this presentation is about fastest growing open source Java grid computing framework called GridGain and how its focus on elegant simplicity and Enterprise Java integration is helping to revolutionize the grid computing for Java in the same way as Spring or JBoss have changed Enterprise Java landscape.
The presentation will start with a brief introduction to grid computing and specifically data and compute grids. MapReduce will be discussed. Real-life examples will be discussed.
Following introduction to grid computing presentation will outline the key features of GridGain 2.0 highlighting simplicity of the usage.
To underscore the topic of presentation it will also include live demonstration of writing a simple application and grid enabling it to run on a small grid right in front of the audience. All coding during demonstration will be done live. Detailed and in-depth explanations will highlight that grid computing in Java can be fun, simple and productive to use in everyday applications and systems.
About the speaker:
Nikita Ivanov has over 15 years of experience in software development and over 7 years of developing grid computing and distributed middleware, a vision and pragmatic view of where development technology is going, and high quality standards in software engineering.
Back in 1996, Mr. Ivanov was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server side middleware development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European System Integrator.
Mr. Ivanov has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up companies and working with well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa and BEA Systems. Mr. Ivanov is an active member of Java middleware community and is a contributor to Java specifications as a member of JSR-107.
Mr. Ivanov holds a Master's degree in Electro Mechanics from Baltic State Technical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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