For our April 13th meetup, we are extremely lucky to have not one but two great speakers present to our group.

First up will be Lars Vogel who is a a comitter on the Eclipse e4 project and he will talk about the next generation of the Eclipse Platform.

Eclipse e4 brings a new set of technologies into the existing Eclipse platform that make Eclipse components easier to write, more configurable by application developers and integrators, and easier to reuse in diverse runtime environments.

You will learn about the usage of dependency injection, services and the modeled workbench in Eclipse e4.

Next up will be Kunal Jaggi who will talk about integrating GWT with Spring and Hibernate ORM. So, in addition to the standard Spring+Hibernate integration (transactions, exception handling, DAO templates, etc.) Kunal will also discuss how to access spring beans via GWT's RPC facilities. He will talk about client side remote interfaces and service proxies, exception handling, domain object serialization to GWT, etc. Kunal plans to demonstrate how all this fits together with a demo app he has prepared.

Pizzas for this event will be sponsored by Diana Henninger from TEKsystems and refreshments will be brought in by David Sadler from Guidewire Software!

Be sure to stick around until the end to get a shot at winning books and other interesting goodies from Sun, O'Reilly, Packt Pub, as well as a copy of IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains.

About Lars Vogel:
Lars is a developer, consultant, trainer, product manager and Eclipse committer. He is currently working as a Product Manager at SAP AG and as an independent Java and Eclipse consultant.

He is a regular speaker at SAP and Java / Eclipse events and is known for his Java technology related website vogella.de.

About Kunal Jaggi.
Kunal is an independent Java consultant. Presently, he is consulting at Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco. He is also the author of "SCWCD Exam Guide", published by McGraw-Hill. His second book on WebSphere MQ is slated to be published by June 2010. He has been into IT journalism for over two years, and contributed over 50 articles on Java SE and EE platforms in leading IT magazines, namely PC Quest and Developer IQ. Kunal has also written for Sun Microsystems Developer Network (SDN) and O’Reilly’s OnJava.com.