February meeting of the Mountain View Java Users Group

Date: Wednesday, Febraury 24th, 1999
Time: 7.00pm-9.00pm
Location: California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1) Bay Networks
 see directions below

Agenda:
7.00 to 7.05-Announcements
7.05 to 8.15-Swing Component Overview
by Scott Violet, member Swing/JFC Team, JavaSoft
8.30 to 8.45-Q&A
8.45 to 9.00-Product Demos

(All are welcome, no membership fee, no prior reservation necessary)
Note: For the "Announcements" section if you have something you would like announced, or any "News" (upcoming conferences, information about similar groups, applets...etc) please send mail to (Sudhakar Ramakrishnan) sudha@best.com prior to the meeting. A bulletin board would be placed for product announcements/job openings/miscellaneous announcements.

Swing Component Overview

By Scott Violet

Swing is a Graphical User Interface library that is part of the Java Development Kit. Swing contains numerous components used in creating an application, or applet. This talk will introduce Swing by way of the design goals, how Swing interacts with the AWT, and finish with a brief example.

Biography: Scott Violet

Scott Violet is a member of the JFC/Swing team at the JavaSoft division of Sun. Scott is one of the principal developers of the Swing text package and the primary author of the Swing Tree component. He's published many technical articles on these topics, see www.theswingconnection.com. Before working on Swing, Scott developed applications for OpenStep/NEXTSTEP. He has a BS in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

Directions:

Bay Networks
California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1)
4401 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA

From 101 North - SF Area

take 101 South
(Approximately 25 miles from SFO)
Exit Great America Parkway, turn left onto Great America Parkway, 1/4 mile Bay Networks is located at the corner of Great America Parkway & Mission College Blvd. Building One (SC1) is @ 4401 Great America Parkway - Santa Clara. Go into the lobby. California Zephyr Room is located on the first floor on the right hand side.

From 101 South Area:

take 101 North
(Approximately 4 miles)
Exit Great America Parkway, turn right onto Great America Parkway, 1/4 mile Bay Networks is located at the corner of Great America Parkway & Mission College Blvd.

It is advised that if you are coming from the Peninsula take 280 South and make an interchange @ 92 East to 101 South (Follow other directions from there).
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