WUG 8/29 Google Web Toolkit

The Google Web Toolkit is at the very center of the Web 2.0 
phenomenon and is attracting broad interest in just about every part 
of the development community and most companies, who want to offer 
this new interactive web format to their users.

GWT is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix 
of technologies that make writing AJAX applications difficult and 
error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in 
the Java language using any Java development tool.

We've got one of the best-known Eclipse authors on the planet (and 
author of the first published reference to the GWT at 
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/) to show you how to unify client 
and server code using GWT and create a web application as easily as a 
Swing application.

Of course this has nothing to do specifically with WebSphere, 
although Ed is developing using Eclipse, so we are very much aiming 
it at JUG members as much as at WebSphere ones.

This talk will be one of the WUG's most timely and popular 
ever.   Everyone in the JUG (and friends) are invited to attend free 
of charge ......

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Google Web Toolkit - Taking the pain out of Ajax

Ed Burnette, SAS

Tues. Aug. 29, 2006
IBM Building 500 Cafeteria
Research Triangle Park, NC

Schedule

6:00 p.m. Gather, Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:15 p.m. Announcements, Group Busineass
6:30 p.m. Main Presentation - Google Web Toolkit!
8:15 p.m. (approx.) Adjournment


Admission is free of charge.  Pre-registration is helpful but not 
mandatory (see below).

Main Talk (6:30 p.m.)

Google Web Toolkit - Taking the pain out of Ajax.

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a free framework that lets you build 
Ajax applications faster than ever before. Using your existing 
expertise with Java and IDEs like Eclipse, you can write a GWT 
program in a single language - Java - and have the client-side parts 
translated seamlessly into JavaScript so they can run inside any major browser.

During this talk Ed will introduce GWT, discuss how it compares to 
other Web 2.0 technologies, and demo creating a simple GWT 
application from scratch. He will also show off his latest project, a 
resources portal for GWT developers and users at 
http://www.gwtpowered.org. It is, of course, written in GWT, with the 
database hosted by Dabble DB (http://www.dabbledb.com).

Bio:
Ed Burnette has been hooked on computers ever since he laid eyes on a 
TRS-80 in the local Radio Shack. Since graduating from NC State 
University he has programmed everything from serial device drivers 
and debuggers to web servers. After a delightful break working on 
commercial video games, Ed reluctantly returned to business software. 
He currently develops OLAP servers and clients written in a mixture 
of C and Java for SAS (http://www.sas.com).

In his copious spare time, Ed enjoys learning and writing about Open 
Source, Java, software development, and technology in general. Ed 
writes the Dev Connection blog at ZDNet 
(http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette) and has a new e-book coming out 
this fall from the Pragmatic Programmers on the Google Web Toolkit. 
He has written several articles and books on Eclipse, most recently 
the Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide from O'Reilly 
(http://www.oreillynet.com/catalog/eclipsepg). He is an Eclipse 
committer, founding editor of EclipseZone.com, and former chief 
editor of the Eclipse Corner articles section at Eclipse.org. Ed was 
named the Eclipse "Top Ambassador" for 2006.


Directions to the Meeting

Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)

 From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, 
take a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis 
Drive for about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 
1/2 mile, you will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep 
to the right.

If the rightmost gate is down,  press on the intercom button and tell 
the remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group 
meeting, and give him your name. He will open the gate for you.

Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman - they may ask for his name.

Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli 
Building, looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software 
Group." It should be the third road on the left.

It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.

You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to 
the Building 500 lobby.   If that parking lot is not accessible, you 
would need to continue on and park behind the building.

See 
<http://www.rtprug.org/sitemap.pdf>http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf 
for a map.

Pre-Registration

We have implemented a pre-registration system for meetings. While not 
mandatory for attendance, this will allow us to provide pre-printed 
attendance badges at the door that will get you into the meeting more quickly.

If you would like to pre-register,  please send email 
to<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]  with your
    * name
    * organization (e.g. company or school or self)
    * citizenship
    * date of birth (needed only if citizenship is other than U.S.)
    * email address

Please note that:
    * If you are a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or PR China (and not 
a permanent U.S resident with a "green card" or IBMer) 
pre-registration is mandatory, since your visit must be pre-approved. 
Please contact <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] for details.
    * If you are NOT a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and 
not an IBMer or U.S. permanent resident with a "green card") 
pre-registration is NOT mandatory, but it is quicker: we will need to 
log the information above at the door, which might take a few minutes.
    * IBM staff with active badges can enter the building in the 
usual manner, without pre-approval or pre-registration.

  If it's getting late, that's no problem at all.  Just show up and 
we will make out a badge at the door.