September 2008 Meeting

The month this meeting will be divided into two parts. In the first part Phurnace will give an overview of the J2EE automation tool. In the second part of the meeting we will watch one of the videos from JavaOne. The specific session that we watch is up to you! Please note that the first presentation starts at 4:15.

Phurnace Presentation

In this presentation, we will show you how it is now possible to fully automate the deployment of J2EE applications and make configuration changes without the use of scripts or manual processes. Phurnace Deliverª accelerates the deployment of Java EE applications and can dramatically reduce web app server degradation and downtime. It eliminates the error-prone, repetitive heartaches associated with the set up, configuration and migration of software running on web application servers -- regardless of vendor or version (IBM, BEA, JBoss).

Speaker

Robert serves as CTO and is one of the original founders of the company. He is responsible for customer satisfaction, customer support and pre-sales technical interaction. Robert was the chief architect of the Phurnace engine and the companyÕs first products. Robert has almost ten years of experience in the software development industry, including roles at drkoop.com, NextJet, 360Commerce, CarOrder.com and Trilogy Software. He has spent his career focused on configuration management and deployment of enterprise applications. Robert spent some time outside of the software industry as a production assistant for the Warped Tour, a nationwide show of independent and alternative musicians. The last seven years of his software career have been spent specifically building deployment and configuration management solutions for Java EEª technologies. Robert has been awarded a provisional patent for technologies used in the Phurnace products. He has a B.A. in Economics with mathematics minor from the University of Texas at Austin.