The Groovy Programming Language is the latest dynamic language for the JVM. The author (James Strachan) and others will be discussing the latest developments over a pint, and would love to see you there too. When: 12 July 2004 - 5pm till late Where: Charterhouse Bar <- NEW VENUE Cost: Free - but not as in beer.

As a special treat for you this month, James has agreed to pop along to meet anyone interested in what Groovy is all about, what Groovy can be used for or even how to get started with Groovy.

• Groovy Reference Card (PDF) (jez)
• Eclipse Plugin for Groovy (zohar)

There will of course be many other discussions, particularly if anyone has any good stories from this years Java One conference.

The venue has also changed this month, the Charterhouse Bar is only a few doors east of SOS, but appears to have food and nice sofas, so we'll give it a go.

Who's gonna be there?

• James Strachan (groovy creator)
• John 'Tug' Wilson (groovy implementor)
• Zohar Melamed (groovy committer) {tentative}
• Andy Paul
• Sam Newman
• Simon Brunning
• Jeremy Rayner
• Hani Suleiman
• Sam Dalton
• Simon Brown
• Charles Cordingley
• Christopher Marsh-Bourdon
• Colin MacLeod
• Wayne Allison
• Tom Lister
• Joe Walnes
• Michael Mahemoff
• Alex McLintock
• Craig McMillan
• Aslak Hellesoy
• Torgeir Veimo
• ... please leave a comment if you wanna pop along. (newbies welcome)

As well as the excellent breakfast on tuesday, it will soon be time again for the latest evening meetup. This month the topic will be integrating J2EE and .NET. After reading Ted Neward's blog entry on calling Java RMI services from .NET clients, and the latest Application Development Advisor article about integration.

• Is this a reality for you right now?
• Should .NET be left to the desktop app market, and Java takes care of business behind the scenes?
• What other alternatives to SOAP have you used for this interop?
• whitepaper
• Janeva uses CORBA to get everyone talking.
• Even the other side are talking about it (heck they've got a book out!)
• Will Swing ever be acceptable to Joe User?
• All these and a lot less will be answered over a pint of beer this month...

Where: Smiths of Smithfield [map]
When: Monday 14 June 2004 - 5pm till closing time.
How much: FREE, but not as in beer.
Who's gonna be there?

• Simon Brunning
• Jeremy Rayner
• Gordon Buntting
• Max Kington
• ... please leave a comment if you wanna pop along. (newbies welcome)

If you fancy starting the day with a good discussion, then pop a comment on this blog entry.

02 Jun 2004 #

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