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Time: April 8, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Santa Fe College Room S327
City/Town: Gainesville
Website or Map: http://www.gatorjug.org
Phone: 407-622-WEBS
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: Michael Levin
Latest Activity: Apr 8, 2009
JavaFX is a new RIA platform built on Java. Jim Clarke, the primary author of
JavaFX - Developing Rich Internet Applications (June 2009), will demonstrate JavaFX development live,
including sample REST applications.
Speaker: Jim Clarke is a Principle Engineer with Sun Microsystems and has spent the
last 12 years developing with Java. For the past 2 years, Jim has been working directly with JavaFX
and participated on the JavaFX compiler team. Jim is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame
and has been in the Computer Science field for 30 years. See http://blogs.sun.com/clarkeman/ for more info
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