Announcements

Meeting Thu 09/18/08 at 5:30 - Erik Hatcher on SOLR

Abstract:
Solr opens up the power of Lucene as a general-purpose search platform, easily integrated with most any environment. Solr's capabilities include faceting, caching, replication, distributed search, and much more. This talk will cover these features of Solr and showcase several applications that have been built on top of Solr, as well as several live demonstrations of Solr in action.

Speaker Bio:
Erik returns to the RJUG this year, having presented to us a few years back on his as a contributor to the Jakarta open source project Ant and signed our copies of his 2003 Manning book Java Development with Ant.

Erik has been a NFJS speaker and has spoken on Solr/Lucene and many other developer topics around the world at various conferences, symposiums, and user groups.

Erik Hatcher loves Lucene! And has seen the light with Solr. Erik co-authored "Lucene in Action" (with 2nd edition now in progress). Erik works for Lucid Imagination, a startup providing Solr/ Lucene-based support, product, training, and consulting.

Our sponsor is TBD

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Thursday Sep 18, 2008
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Dominion Innsbrook Technical Ctr
5000 Dominion Blvd
Glen Allen, VA 23060

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Meeting Wed 11/12/08 at 5:30 - Balaji Muthuvarathan: Advanced Hibernate

Bala of Shaw Systems has agreed to give a follow-up presentation on Advanced Hibernate.

Hibernate - Not So 101 (Part 2):
There is no question that Hibernate is the de facto ORM solution for Java applications. Here are some of the things we will cover in this session:
o Map classes using Java 5 annotations
o Association, Collection and Inheritance mapping
o Key features like lazy loading and cascading
o HQL and Criteria queries
o Tips, tricks and pitfalls

Speaker Bio:
Balaji Muthuvarathan is an Architect and the Architecture Lead at Shaw Systems Associates Inc and is involved in designing and developing a JEE based highly transactional financial application.

Our sponsor is TBD

Please register for the next meeting so that we can have enough food and seats available. To register go to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/792289/

Wednesday Nov 12, 2008
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Dominion Innsbrook Technical Ctr
5000 Dominion Blvd
Glen Allen, VA 23060

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