(keitai-l) NinJava Meeting - 30th October - Note new location and time - Roppongi, 8pm

From: Sam Joseph <sam_at_neurogrid.com>
Date: 10/23/03
Message-ID: <3F9744B8.6000800@neurogrid.com>
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This month's NinJava meeting will take place on Thursday 30th October. Please note the new time and location information below.

********** NEW LOCATION INFORMATION **********

This month's meeting will be hold at the 22nd floor of Roppongi Hills in the K Laboratory offices. A map of Roppongi Hills can be found here:
http://www.roppongihills.com/en/access/index.html

For security purposes, we would like you to follow Mori Tower's admission policy. On arrival, please go to the reception counter on the UL (Upper Lobby; for even-numbered floors),give K Laboratory as company name and show your ID, e.g. two name cards, a drivers' license, your company's ID card, etc.) You will then be issued an admisson ticket.

After having received your ticket, please wait in front of the Segafredo coffee shop besides the reception counter. You will then be picked up at 20:00 or at 20:15 and guided to the meeting room. Therefore, you need to be ON TIME to attend the meeting.

In case of problems, please contact Reto on 090-7816-9988.


********** NEW MEETING AGENDA **********

The meeting's agenda is as follows:

8:00pm - 8:15pm Networking and Setup (Refreshments provided by Vanten Open Source Solutions http://www.vanten.com)

8:15pm - 8:45pm "Popular Japanese Keitai Java Contents and Business Models" Main talk by Andrea Hoffman of EGIS Consulting Group

8:45pm - 9:00pm Discussion

9:00pm - 9.20pm J2EE Pattern Workshop - Sam Joseph talks about the Service Locator Pattern

The talk abstracts and speaker biographies are as follows:

Main Talk Title: Popular Japanese Keitai Java Contents and Business Models

Main Talk Abstract:

Andrea will give an overview and some practical demonstrations of mobile Java applications in Japan. What type of different services are out there, what's popular and why, how do some of the services work, and what are some of the business models behind them.

Main Talk Speaker Biography:

Andrea is German and holds a Masters degree in Japanese studies and mass communication. She currently works as a Senior Consultant at the EGIS Consulting Group specialized in consulting Western and Japanese clients in regard to the Japanese telecommunications market. Prior to joining EGIS in 2001, she worked for several years as an IT journalist and consultant in Germany and Japan.


J2EE Pattern Workshop: J2EE Service Locator Pattern

Workshop Abstract:

A Service Locator object is used to abstract all JNDI usage and to hide the complexities of initial context creation, EJB home object lookup, and EJB object re-creation. Multiple clients can reuse the Service Locator object to reduce code complexity, provide a single point of control, and improve performance by providing a caching facility.

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/restricted/patterns/ServiceLocator.html


Speaker Biography:

Sam Joseph holds a Doctorate degree in Neural Networks from Edinburgh University. He first came to Tokyo in 1998 on a Toshiba Fellowship to work on Java Software Agents. In February 2000 he moved to ValueCommerce, and after the standard internet startup roller coaster, became an independent consultant. He started the NeuroGrid project (an open source P2P blogging plugin), which he continues to work at, and more recently he has been working on mobile Java applications for various companies, as well as research projects at Tokyo University
Received on Thu Oct 23 06:02:58 2003