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Time: March 2, 2011 from 6pm to 8:30pm
Location: Community Foundation of Sarasota
Street: 2635 Fruitville Rd
City/Town: Sarasota
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?o…
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: David Moskowitz
Latest Activity: Apr 8, 2011
You've Been Lied To!
You've been told for years that using a persistence framework will insulate your application from changes to the database. As with other such claims, this turned out to be false. When porting a J2EE application to a NoSQL-style system, there are a number of factors to consider.
In this presentation, Tim will take a traditional J2EE application and port it to Google's App Engine. Specific focus will be on the various persistence technologies: Hibernate, SpringJDBC, JPA, JDO, and DAOs.
The goal of this session is to have an interactive discussion about how to take a traditional app, and enable it for deployment in a Cloud environment.
About the presenter:
Tim Crowley is an Enterprise Architect who works for an International company that makes Machines for Business. By day, he focuses on integrating global systems. By night, he likes to explore new and emerging technologies.
The event will be hosted by Community Foundation of Sarasota, located at 2635 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL 34237, which is west of exit 210 off I75.
Food and refreshments will be provided by Infoblazer
Meeting Schedule:
* 6-6:45 PM: Networking
* 6:45 - 8:30 PM: Presentation
All Are welcome. Please RSVP.
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The presentation materials are available on Tim Crowley's web site.
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