NEJUG on Thu, Jun 10, will feature Greg Brown presenting on Apache Pivot and we will be at Sun Microsystems Burlington , MA.

Presentation Overview:

Apache Pivot (http://pivot.apache.org) is a platform for building rich Internet applications (RIAs) in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform. Pivot includes a number of features that significantly simplify development of modern GUI applications, including an XML markup language for declaring the structure of a user interface, data binding, animated effects and transitions, and Web services integration.

In this session, Pivot founders Greg Brown and Todd Volkert provide an overview of the Pivot platform and walk through the implementation of a simple but practical application that highlights key platform features and development best practices.

About the presenter:

Greg Brown is a senior software architect with 15 years of experience developing applications in both a services and R&D capacity. He is the founder and PMC Chair of Apache Pivot, an open source platform for building rich Internet applications in Java. He holds a bachelor?s degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Boston residents , this Thursday on 13 May NEJUG  is organizing an presentation on “From ESB to REST and Clouds an Open Source Presentation”.

Presentation Overview

The ESB concept emerges from integration requirements that have remained mostly stable and pervasive over the years. Yet many developers feel like they are run over by the bus, especially when an ESB is foisted onto their projects. Open source ESBs offer a flexibility and transparency that is hard to match without access to the source code. In the first half of this talk, we will detail the architectural considerations behind ESBs and how they are realized in JBoss ESB. With this understanding, the audience should be well prepared to use and customize ESBs to meet their specific project needs.