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The Colorado Springs Open Source Software March Meeting

Mar 27
Thu 6:00 PM
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AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 PM - Food, Drinks & Networking
6:30 - 6:40 PM - Announcements
6:40 - 7:00 PM - Basic Concepts
7:00 - 7:10 PM - Break
7:10 - 8:30 PM - Main Speaker
8:30 - 8:45 PM - Door Prize Drawings

MAIN TOPIC ABSTRACT

JCatapult
JCatapult is a new web application development platform that provides an enterprise level solution with an agile approach. Unlike other platforms like Rails, Grails and the like, JCatapult is component based. This allows reusable modules to be written and then reused easily across projects. In addition, these modules can be upgraded or removed with little or no effort.

Besides it's component architecture, JCatapult also provides a number of features that other platforms lack including dependency management, database migrations, email support, security infrastructure, credit card processing, and much more. These features further reduce the initial project startup time because they are common to nearly all projects.

Since JCatapult is based on well known open source projects that are tried and true in the enterprise, it is a clear winner when it comes to platform selection. Companies no longer need to spend weeks selecting all the perfect libraries, instead they can get up and running in minutes. On the flip side, even the smallest web applications can leverage JCatapult because it provides rapid development by reducing configuration, providing excellent conventions and great defaults.

This presentation will step you through getting JCatapult setup, creating a web application, developing a simple CRUD operation and adding a component. In addition, it will cover all of the technologies that are used by JCatapult and illustrate just how simple it is to get started.

MAIN SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Brian Pontarelli is the founder of Inversoft, a Colorado based software company. Inversoft is one of two companies responsible for building and maintaining the JCatapult framework. Brian works on many open source projects including Struts, Savant and Java.net commons. In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an enterprise architect for Orbitz.

Brian has been programming many years and works primarily with Java and Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.

BASIC CONCEPTS TOPIC ABSTRACT

Apache Commons Overview
The Apache Commons Project is dedicated to one principal goal: creating and maintaining reusable Java components. The Commons Proper is a place for collaboration and sharing, where developers from throughout the Apache community can work together on projects to be shared by the Apache projects and Apache users.

Commons developers make an effort to ensure that their components have minimal dependencies on other libraries, so that these components can be deployed easily. In addition, Commons components will keep their interfaces as stable as possible, so that Apache users can implement these components without having to worry about changes in the future.

BASIC CONCEPTS SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Gary Hessler is an open source evangelist and Senior Staff Software Engineer with Lockheed Martin Corporation. He has been a software engineer for over 17 years, working in both DOD and commercial companies. Mr. Hessler has been working with Java/J2EE and Open Source for the last 7 years. Mr. Hessler is also working with his wife to develop ColoradoMilitary.com, a website providing information for military members in Colorado.


OUR SPONSORS

Website Sponsor:
ACN...Local, Long Distance, Digital, & Cellular Phone Service

Food Sponsor:
Robert Half Technologies will provide food and drink

Door Prize Sponsors:
Free ticket to the No Fluff Just Stuff Denver Symposium - May 2-4 donated by Jay Zimmerman, founder of No Fluff
Jetbrains will provide a free IntelliJ personal ide license
SourceBeat Publishing will provide one free PDF technical book
Atlassian will provide a free technical book plus some t-shirts and stickers
OReilly Publishing will provide a free technical book
Robert Half Technologies will provide additional door prizes
ACN will provide a 2GB Thumb Drive

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Who attended?

    • “ Not sure the Mark meeting subject has a foundation/support for being used in commercial enterprise systems but did provide a facinating concept/potential that could be developed and expanded upon further. Sort of felt like a Java version of what Ruby on Rails has a basis for. ”
    • “ Good speaker. Unfortunately the focus was on Java related technologies. While there is plenty of Java related open source, open source encompasses far more technologies that have nothing to do with Java or web related technologies. I'm still waiting for discussions in those areas. ”
    • “ Interesting presentation, very detailed, many technologies incorporated into the product (JCatapult). Brian, was very knowledgeable and presented very well. I also liked the format of having a brief presentation (Apache Commons overview) before the main presentation. ”
    • Sam
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