J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) is a single standard that can sit on top of a wide range of already in place enterprise systems, quickly and easily embracing existing resources to create unified, multi-tier e-business applications. This session will provide and overview of the J2EE platform. It will also demonstrate how to build multi-tier e-business applications in the real world.

David Skok is an industry legend and dynamic speaker (his presentation won a *Best in Showcase* award in 1997) who can easily put this market into context. SilverStream is the fifth venture after having founded four extremely successful start-up companies, including Watermark Software, which Skok sold to FileNet for $60 million in 1995, and Xionics where Skok rewrote the book on network and printer accelerator cards.

The discussion will look the technical differences between JRMP and IIOP, and what the differences are in RMI/JRMP and RMI/IIOP. It will explain how RMI, CORBA, and EJB all fit into an enterprise architecture. It will also take a look at the RMI-IIOP solutions available on the market.

Bio: Michael McCaffery is the Senior Product Manager for Persistence Software and has done extensive benchmarking/analysis work in the areas of RMI-IIOP and CORBA. Prior to joining Persistence, Mr. McCaffery was with Inprise Corporation working in its Professional Services Group, providing CORBA consulting and training to major coporations throughout the US and Europe. He is the author of "The Official VisiBroker for Java Handbook" by McMillan publishing. He is also a contributing author to "C++ Programming with CORBA" by Wiley Publishing.

As the Manager for the WebSphere Worldwide team, Billy has had a lot of opportunity to meet customers and business partners around the world where he has gained insight into what they are doing and intend to do in their e-businesses. He recently spoke at the Java Technology Conference in Austin and toured the UK speaking to Novell audiences about the Novell/IBM WebSphere announcment.

Stephen Bate has 15 years years of experience with object-oriented and distributed software systems development, consulting, and training. He has also worked in artificial intelligence research and has experience as an object-oriented database consultant. Stephen is also a co-founder of the Phoenix Java User's group and maintains the group's web site and mailing lists.

Johnny Tay has seventeen years experience in the systems development arena. His area of expertise lies in the design of large-scale distributed systems. He is the architect and managed the development of several global stock trading and clearing systems as well as health care and customer service applications in use today at Fortune 1000 companies. He is always on the lookout for technology that speeds the development of distributed systems.

Audree is currently teaching Java courses through the Maricopa Community College system. She is also teaching graduate level Java sections for the ASU Computer Science.

• How to expose bean properties, methods, events using BeanInfo
• How to provide custom property editors and customizers
• An example hidden bean ( to append objects to a serialized object log ) that includes explicit exposing of properties and methods plus a custom property editor
• More on bean events: using PropertyChange and VetoableChange events to affect a 2-phase commit
• A peak at the Glasgow enhancements

Eran Eliezer is a Los Angeles based Systems Engineer for Netscape, and specializes in supporting sales of the Netscape Application Server (NAS). Prior Netscape, Mr. Eliezer was an SE at Rational Software, supporting sales of Rational's software development and test tools, and at Objectivity, supporting sales of the Objectivity OO dadtabase. Before becoming an SE, Mr. Eliezer developed software for 11 years at TRW and at Teradata. He was a lead developer and architect of application and system sofrware, primarily in the area of distributed and parallel systems.

The presentation will cover the application server model in general, and the future direction offered by the emerging Java standards of EJB, Servlets and JSP. While some of the discussion uses the Netscape platform as an example, the concepts presented are generally applicable to distributed component systems.

Bio: Nat Wyatt is co-founder of Cloudscape and serves as the chief technology officer. Before founding Cloudscape, Mr. Wyatt had been a senior architect and development manager at Sybase for over ten years. Mr. Wyatt defined the symmetric multiprocessing architecture for SQL Server, and designed and implemented many of the system components, including the multiprocessing kernel, lock manager, and access methods. Before Sybase, Mr. Wyatt worked at Oracle Corporation, where he wrote the initial port to the Sequent platform. Mr. Wyatt began his career at Sequent Computer Systems, where he developed Pdbx, the first commercially available parallel program debugger. Mr. Wyatt received a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.

.A more informal biography can be found at http://www.geekweek.com/geekarch/wyatt.html.

The presentation will cover what the platform shift to Java means for databases, an overview of data storage and access approaches available for Java, an overview of the Cloudscape architecture, and demonstration.

Audree is currently teaching Java courses through the Maricopa Community College system. She is also teaching graduate level Java sections for the ASU Computer Science.

Willy Farrell, as a Technical Consultant for the IBM SanFrancisco Business Object Framework, enables and assists software developers who are building applications with SanFrancisco. He also spends time addressing user groups, workshops and conferences on the SanFrancisco Framework, as well as teaching the SanFrancisco classes offered by IBM. Willy has been a software developer for over eighteen years. He began working as a SanFrancisco Technical Consultant at its roll-out in August, 1997.

Real World Java: Using  java.awt.Paint, part of the Java2D API

Robert currently does Java development for Visualize, Inc. Previously, he developed with Java at Future Focus, Inc. and Honeywell.

Pasker has been designing and developing networking, communications, transaction processing, and database products and applications for 20 years. He managed the development of numerous award-winning technologies and leads the development for WebLogic Tengah. Pasker has also worked at Sun Microsystems, Ingress, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds a BA from San Francisco State University and an MA from Brown University.

At the Phoenix JUG, the presentation and demonstration will cover the Java Enterprise APIs with emphasis on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). Come and see a real EJB 1.0 bean, container and server run!

Graham graduated with honors from the University of Southampton, England, with a degree in Computer Science. He has a Master,s degree in Computer Science from  the University of Texas at Dallas.

Aime Bayle has been at Honeywell and then Bull for over 27 years where he has worked on operating systems, database, networking, and artificial intelligence. Aime earned his M.S. degree from U. C. Berkeley in 1968 on a Fulbright Scholarship, and completed his Ph. D. in computer science and engineering at Arizona State University in 1992.  He currently is working as a Java evangelist/technologist at Bull.

David Gleason has worked for Bull (and its predecessor companies Xerox Data Systems, Honeywell and Honeywell Bull) for over 24 years. He was worked in variety of assignments including software support, operating systems development, distributed applications,  and part-time Web master for an internal Bull web system in Phoenix. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is currently part of the team that has ported Java to Bull's GCOS 8 operating system.

Charlie  Taylor has over 20 years experience in Enterprise Transaction Processing.  Charlie  is  currently  Technical  Lead for the Java on GCOS 8 project.   Charlie  also is able to apply TP concepts and experience to the exciting  world  of  the  Java   Enterprise  Platform.  A British (actually, Liverpool)  citizen, Charlie has worked in the US for over 13 years as both a  consultant  and   most  recently  a  member  of  the  Bull, Phoenix R & D organization.

Dan Leifker has over 16 years of experience in the computer field.  He received a B.S.  and an M.S.  in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and began work as a software quality assurance analyst at Schlumberger, Ltd., in Houston, Texas.  He worked at The MITRE Corporation for many years and worked on projects for NASA, DEA Intelligence, DoD, U.S.  Coast Guard, the CIA.  In 1993 he joined Andersen Consulting as a senior consultant and worked on client-server projects for several national telecommunications clients.  He joined Sun Microsystems in 1995 as a Technical Manager in the Sun Professional Services division and was assigned to Visa International as a consultant in electronic commerce.  Following this, he spent five months at CSX Technology in Jacksonville, Florida, as Sun's on-site project manager on a JavaStation deployment project.  Later he transferred to JavaSoft in Cupertino, California, where he currently works as a systems engineer.

• What are the security issues?
• What makes Java secure?
• Understanding the Java Security Sandbox.
• It there really a Java "Black Widow"?

• New Java security features.

Mr. Ryder graduated from Princeton University in June of 1992 and has not had the time to sit still since.  Scott worked in the retail and support channels for large enterprises and organizations for 2 years prior to joining Apple Computer.  At Apple Scott's most recent position was the Product Line Manager for Internet and Multimedia technologies in the Customer Communications Organization.  After leaving Apple, Mr.  Ryder joined Sun Microsystems JavaSoft division in October of 1997 and is currently the Senior Product Manager for the JavaSoft Applications Group.  Scott is responsible for being the "voice of the customer" across all teams in the JAG organization.

Dr. Faustini served as Professor of Computer Science at Arizona State University for many years. His primary research was in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Systems, User Interfaces, and Visual Programming Languages. In the past year, Dr. Faustini has joined JavaSoft as a product manager for the Java Studio product.

Dan Mazzola is a systems engineer for Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation where is specializes as a "Javangelist".  He has spent many years as a consultant and trainer in Unix and client/server technologies.  He earned his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Arizona State University, College of Business, in Decision and Information Systems.  He currently teaches Java courses to business students at ASU.

Topics include:

• JDK (proper, personal, and embedded)
• Java Chips
• Overview of the current and coming API's
• Java Tools
• Java Workstations
• Announced Java futures
• Java Compatibility