Hi all, A friendly reminder about our meeting next week: EJB 3.1 by Andrew Lee Rubinger, JBoss by Red Hat Date: March 9th, 2010 @ 6 PM Location: Boston University 111 Cummington St Boston, MA 02215 MCS 135 (Math and Computer Science Building) 1st floor Abstract: The term "EJB" evokes fear in application developers throughout the land. Visions of verbose descriptors, Frankenstein XML, and an unmanageable runtime environment made programmers run for the hills. Seven years ago. Version 3.0 of the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification introduced the programming model to the gym and makeup. She's slimmer, with tasteful annotations sprinked about. In this session we'll start from scratch: * What makes us most productive? * What tasks should we be programming; more importantly, what shouldn't we do? * What the heck is a component model, and why should I care? * How is this stuff useable in the real world? In turn we'll discuss the features of EJB, with particular focus on stuff new to EJB 3.1 and JavaEE6. At the end we'll introduce some new frameworks and libraries which will ultimately make testing enterprise components as trivial as calling "add" on a CS101 Calculator.java. Agenda: 6.00 PM - 6.20 PM: Meetup + Pizza 6.20 PM - 6.30 PM: Welcome + Announcements 6.30 PM - 7.20 PM: EJB 3.1 (Part 1) 7.20 PM - 7.30 PM: Break 7.30 PM - 8.20 PM: EJB 3.1 (Part 2) 8.20 PM - 8.30 PM: Q&A 8.30 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking Remember to sign up on the meeting homepage at: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/BostonJBossUserGroup-EJB31 Looking forward to seeing you all ! Best regards, Jesper