The presentation will focus on unique features of the Andi tool, which provides a project oriented query tool for developers. As the program was designed/developed outside of a normal work day, it has taken many years to bring this product to the marketplace. If time permits, there will be an open discussion on what it took to complete the development and testing cycles.

Andi is a Swing application and is pure Java with the exception of the installer. Some of the unique features of the product are:

• Advance sorting and filtering features.
• High performance data retrieval.
• A View Organizer which allows a user to navigate a database using pre-configured views.

Git is a free distributed revision control, or software source code management project with an emphasis on being fast. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.

This meeting will be a workshop where the members will actively build a small application using Git as the software repository.

Bob will discuss Spring's security tool, Spring Security. Spring Security provides powerful and flexible security solutions for enterprise applications developed using the Spring Framework.

In software development, a domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language or specification language dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation technique, and/or a particular solution technique. The concept isn't new—special-purpose programming languages and all kinds of modeling/specification languages have always existed, but the term has become more popular due to the rise of domain-specific modeling.

Spring Roo is a next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers. With Roo you can easily build full Java applications in minutes. It differs from other tools by focusing on:

• Higher Java productivity: Try the ten minute test and see for yourself (watch video).
• Stock-standard Java: Roo uses the Java APIs and standards you already know and trust.
• Usable and learnable: Roo features an extremely high level of usability and an advanced shell.
• No engineering trade-offs: Roo has no runtime portion and does not impose any CPU, RAM or disk storage cost.
• Easy Roo removal: Roo can be easily removed from a user project in under five minutes.

Apache Camel is a Routing and Mediation framework that allows developers to implement a number of useful Enterprise Integration patterns. This presentation will discuss the following:

• Introduction to the Apache Camel Framework.
• The Camel DSL.
• Using Spring to manage the Camel Context and for dependency injection into Camel routes.
• Implementing EIPs (Enterprise Integration Patterns) such as Splitter, Content Enricher, etc. using Camel.
• Building an Event system using Camel.
• Testing Camel Routes.
• Using Groovy to get started with Camel quickly and test routes.

Attendees who would like to follow along with their laptops are encouraged to download and install the latest version of Groovy.

ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages. ANTLR provides excellent support for tree construction, tree walking, translation, error recovery, and error reporting.

Our discussion centered around JPA solutions and when it is appropriate to introduce JPA technology to a prodoct. Also discussed; other local user groups, Eclipse Modeling Framework, Java podcasts, Clojure, and Eiffel.

Scaling enterprise applications is hard. Traditional architectures that use the database as a hub of application data and shared state lead to performance bottlenecks, excessive database license and hardware costs, and vendor lock-in. Many home grown or patched-together solutions at worst don’t work and at best suck hours of developer time that could be better spent elsewhere.

Enterprise Ehcache is an easy-to-deploy solution to these hard-to-solve scale and throughput problems. Ehcache has long been the de facto standard for Java caching and is the default cache for many popular frameworks and containers such as Hibernate, Spring, Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, and ColdFusion. In this presentation you will learn how to use Enterprise Ehcache to speed up and scale out your application from one node to 1,000s, to large virtualized environments and clouds:

• Background—standard caching theory and practice
• Getting started—the Ehcache API and configuration
• Web caching
• Advanced scaling techniques—configuring and deploying a distributed cache
• Flexibility, management, and control—decorators, listeners, statistics, and monitoring
• Cloud deployment
• Tuning and monitoring best practices

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