Enterprise Comet Presentation by Jonas Jacobi & John Fallows November 20, 2007

The Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (SV-WEB-JUG) meets on the third Tuesday of the month at Google. Our meetings are always free to attend and open to the general public.

18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle over food & drinks
19:00-20:30 Enterprise Comet Presentation

Sneaking through the forest of AJAX frameworks is a new technique called Comet, which enables real-time messaging from a Web server to one or more browsers. As framework developers move to support Comet and developers start building their first Comet applications, it is vital for both to describe the messaging payloads consistently.

After a quick introduction to Comet concepts, this session will showcase how the same Java object representation can be used to describe both server and client usage of the payload, and how it is translated to JavaScript in a way that keeps everything consistent. The session will also show how you can develop a rich Internet application in almost exactly the same way as a desktop client application using Java EE APIs, such as Java Messaging Service (JMS).

A native of Sweden, Jonas Jacobi has worked in the software industry for more than 15 years with a mission to simplify application development. Prior to founding Kaazing, he worked at Oracle for eight years as a Java EE evangelist and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces, and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team. As co-founder and chief executive officer of Kaazing, Jonas sets the company's business and product strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).

John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces and co-founder of Kaazing. Originally from Northern Ireland, he graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than 10 years. Before founding Kaazing, John was a consulting member of the technical staff for server technologies at Oracle. During his last five years at Oracle, he focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate AJAX technologies. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress). In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing's vision of creating the best real-time Web framework based on the Java standard. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.

Official Website: https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=5395