February meeting of the Mountain View Java Users Group

Date: Wednesday, February 25th, 1998
Time: 7.00pm-8.30pm
Location: California Zephyr Room, Building One (SC1)Bay Networks
 4401 Great America Parkway,Santa Clara, CA

(NOTE CHANGE IN MEETING LOCATION AND TIMINGS!!!)

MTVJUG completed 24th months the December'97. MTVJUG was founded in december '95.
Agenda:
7.00 to 7.05-Announcements
7.05 to 8.00-Understanding Java's Class Loaders
by Bill Venners, Artima Software Company
8.00 to 8.15-Q&A
8.15 to 8.30-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.


Understanding Java Class Loaders

by Bill Venners

Java's linking model enables you to design class loaders that extend your application in custom ways at runtime. Through class loaders, subclasses of java.lang.ClassLoader, your application can load and dynamically link to classes and interfaces that were unknown or did not even exist when your application was compiled. This talk gives an overview of Java's linking model and explains how to write class loaders. The talk covers the process of linking a new type inside the JVM runtime, describes constant pool resolution, explains name spaces, and walks you through several code examples of class loaders and the applications that use them.


Biography: Bill Venners

Bill Venners is a consultant, author, and trainer who provides consulting services, writes, and gives training seminars on Java programming. He writes the "Design Techniques" column for JavaWorld and is author of Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of Java internals. He provides consulting and training under the name Artima Software Company .


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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Last Updated : Feb 22, 1998