Hello Everyone,

As I write this we are awaiting hurricane Jeanne to make landfall on the east coast of Florida. Its hard to believe another hurricane will be crossing central Florida. As of right now we are still planning to hold our meeting this Thursday night, September 30th at DeVry University. Our meetings are open to anyone interested in Java. Please rsvp by email to rsvp@orlandojug.org if you plan on attending. Here are the details.

Presentation: "Eclipse Open Source IDE", http://www.eclipse.org

This presentation will take a quick look at the Eclipse IDE Platform by looking at the following topics
  1. What Eclipse is - where it comes from
  2. Obtaining and installing this Open Source IDE - Windows and Linux
  3. The Java Development Toolkit
    • - Basic features and helps
    • - Working with Source Code, Projects, Sandbox
    • - Tips and advanced features
  4. The Debugger
  5. Teamwork with Eclipse - CVS and Subversion Pluggin
  6. Accessing Tomcat
  7. JUnit support
  8. Ant Support
  9. Pluggins - for example XMLBUDDY and Hibernate pluggins
  10. Miscellaneous topics
    • I will touch on the Standard Widget Toolkit
    • Languages other than Java supported by Eclipse
Speaker: Hale Pringle
Dr. Hale Pringle has degrees in psychology, research and administration. Hale wrote his first program in Fortran on 78K, vacuum tube driven mainframe in 1965. Since then he has specialized in database applications, research, user support (10 years at UCF), LANs, and web site development. He has spent the last ten years creating client/server desktop applications using several SQL back-ends and a variety of front-ends. He feels it time for the industry to revisit creating desktop applications with Java as the front-end and is currently writing a book that pulls together many of the tools and techniques that are required to create viable business desktop applications.

Hale has written a GPL application called JGuiGen which generates data entry screens and reports for tables in a SQL backend. The application generated is internationalized, handicapped accessible, multi-user, has user preferences, has JUnit tests, is Java Web Start ready and more. He is currently working to create a web based interface using JavaServer Faces at same time the Swing application is generated.

Hale has presented Java Web Start, CVS, and Swing to the Orlando Jug, JavaServer Faces to the Gator Jug and several topics to the local Linux user group (LEAP-CF.ORG). These presentations are all available at HalePringle.com. He currently does private consultant work in the Orlando area and can be contacted at halehsd@earthlink.net

Agenda: Thursday, September 30, 2004

6:30pm - 7:00pm: Networking
7:00pm - 8:00pm: Presentation, Questions/Discussion
8:00pm - ?: Networking
Host: DeVry University - Orlando campus
Room: 117
4000 Millenia Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32839
407 355 3131

RSVP: Please respond to rsvp@orlandojug.org so that we can estimate the number of people attending the meeting.

Please tell your co-workers and fellow Java enthusiasts. As always I hope to see you there.

-Brian
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