The Performance White Paper which has a ton of details is available on the Vmware site via this Link.
Here are the Slides.
Best Practices for Java in Virtual Machines on VMware ESX for SDForum 01 Dec 2009

Dec 2009 Meeting of the Java SIG: Best Practices for Java in Virtual Machines on VMware ESX and Other Related Topics
Co-chairs: Sudhish Rema, Rich Rien, Ovidiu Feodorov

Bio
Justin Murray works as a solutions engineer in the Alliances area of VMware in Palo Alto. He works with partners at a technical level to enhance their applications when running in virtual machines on VMware’s vSphere platform. Justin has carried out performance measurement exercises on various Java EE systems and worked with partners and customers to develop best practices for applications and infrastructure software written in Java, when deployed on VMware’s virtual platforms.

Abstract

This talk will firstly introduce you to the various forms of virtualization that are most popular, both in hosted form and in bare metal form. The talk will explain the role of the hypervisor or the main part of a virtual platform and will introduce the features that are offered above the hypervisor for fault tolerance, high availability, failover and load balancing.

The talk will then build on that knowledge by delving into the various Best Practices that should be followed when deploying Java applications, whether Java EE or not, on the VMware virtual platform, ESX. Topics such as memory management, virtual CPUs, timekeeping and others will be explored, as they pertain to Java on the virtual platform.

Finally, the talk will give some information on the various Spring framework topics that are beginning to be integrated with Java in virtual machines.

Location
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM December 1, 2009
Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA
94105

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Java SIG – Key-value in the cloud: a comparison of cloud storage providers

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM November 3, 2009
Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA
94105

Abstract: This session will introduce key/value storage concepts and introduce several leading options including Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Microsoft Azure Blob Service, Cloud Layer, and Nirvanix. These will be compared from a feature and code/API level. Finally, we cover jclouds which acts as an abstraction layer above these services.

Presenter’s Bio: Adrian Cole is the founder of the open source jclouds project and CEO of Cloud Conscious, LLC. Adrian’s 15 year career includes design and implementation of mass automation and deployment products for financial, hosting, and education contexts.

Location
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA 94105

Agenda
6:45-7:00 Doors open. Networking. Pizza.
7:00-9:00 Presentations

Price
$15 at the door for non-SDForum members
No charge for SDForum members
No registration required

When?

July 7th, 2009, the first Tuesday of the month.

Where?

Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, California 94105

Agenda

6:30 PM – 7:00  PM Doors open. Networking.

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Presentations.

Price: $15 for non-members, and free for members.

Abstract

GlassFish is an open source community that delivers a production-quality and Java EE 5 compatible Application Server. GlassFish has all the features expected of an enterprise grade Application Server. It has an industry-grade Web services stack that implements the common Web services standards and provides interoperability with .NET platform. It provides out-of-the-box support for clustering, high availability, and load balancing providing up to 99.999% of availability for service and data. The browser-based administration makes it really simple and intuitive to deploy Web and EJB applications, view log files, and perform monitoring functions. The seamless integration with NetBeans and Eclipse simplifies the development cycle. There are many other features that silently operate to provide a robust development/deployment environment for your enterprise applications.

The next version of GlassFish (v3) is upping the ante by providing a highly modular, embeddable, and extensible App Server. It will provide a complete implementation of Java EE 6 and the several specifications defined as part of the platform. The dynamic languages and associated frameworks like Ruby-on-Rails and Groovy-and-Grails will be first class citizens. An extensibility layer is available at administration, monitoring, deployment, configuration, and all other levels that allows you to write custom containers to customize your GlassFish installation.

This session will cover GlassFish v2, its clustering capabilities, Metro web services stack with .Net interoperability, Web tier (Grizzly, Comet, jMaki, …), tools support, and administration features. It will then get into how GlassFish v3 is changing the landscape for developers/deployers. The talk will show multiple demos from “getting started” to complete “deep dives”.

Presenter

Arun Gupta is a GlassFish Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases. He is a prolific blogger with numerous useful tips at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta.

Mark Little, the JBoss Chief Technical Officer, has decided to take a small detour during his JavaOne San Francisco visit and talk in front our monthly gathering , at SDForum Java SIG. He will be our guest on June 2nd and will give a technical overview of the JBoss Enterprise Bus. Since we will have him surrounded, he will probably have no other choice but also answer questions on strategic issues such as where is JBoss heading, how is it reacting to the current economic and competitive landscape changes, and any other kind of questions a Chief Technical Officer of a popular Open Source group may receive from a Silicon Valley gathering of technology enthusiasts.

When?

June 2nd, 2009, the first Tuesday of the month.

Where?

Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, California 94105

Agenda

6:30 PM – 7:00  PM Doors open. Networking.

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Presentations.

Price: $15 for non-members, and free for members.

Abstract

In this presentation we’ll look at the evolution of JBossESB from an in-house project, through a code donation, to the basis of the Red Hat/JBoss SOA Platform. We’ll look at some of the architectural aspects of the ESB, where it relates to standards such as WS-* and REST, and plans for the future including OSGi and SCA.

Presenter

Mark Little works for Red Hat, where he is the CTO of JBoss. Prior to this he was SOA Technical Development Manager and Director of Standards. He was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP (where he was a Distinguished Engineer). He has been working in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80’s. Mark’s PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. Mark is also the author of a popular Java Transactions Processing book and several others, currently in the works. His blog is available here: http://markclittle.blogspot.com/

Tuesday May 5, 2009 from 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Where?
Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, California 94105

Java SIG: Flex for Java Programmers
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM May 5th, 2009

4000 Middlefield Rd., RM H-1
Palo Alto, , CA
Flex for Java Programmers

One day Chris Richardson, in need of a rich UI and , deeply frustrated with Javascript and CSS, sat on his couch and downloaded Flex. To make a long story short, several hours later, he had a running first demo app that was quite a bit more than a hello world. Encouraged by this, Chris moved forward and in little time, developed a rich UI for his cloud products.

Come here Chris talk about how you can get started and hear his tips to getting started. And learn about the reality of bringing simple, but rich Flex UIs into your Java service.

Speaker Bio

Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the book “POJOs in Action.” He runs a consulting and training company that helps customers reduce the cost of development and increase the effectiveness of their development teams. His technical interests include domain-driven design, cloud computing and developer testing. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems and recently became a Java Champion. Chris is the founder of Cloud Tools, which is an open-source project for quickly and easily deploying Java applications on Amazon EC2, and of Cloud Foundry, which provides outsourced, automated data center management. He has spoken at various conferences including JavaOne 2006/2007/2008, No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums, Colorado Software Summit, SD West, The Spring Experience, SpringOne, and Javapolis as well as Java user groups. Chris holds a computer science degree from the Cambridge University in England and lives in Oakland, CA where he runs the local Java User Group. Website and blog: http://chrisrichardson.net/
Raffle

No additional fee to all attendees.
One winner will pick one JetBrains product from:
a. IntelliJ IDEA Personal License.
b. ReSharper Personal License.
c. TeamCity Build Agent (for Continuous integration and Build Server).
d. RubyMine IDE Personal License.

Location
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA 94105

Directions
Agenda
6:30-7:00 Doors open. Networking. Pizza.
7:00-9:00 Presentations.
Ticket Info: $15 at the door for non-SDForum members. No charge for SDForum members. No registration

Here are the slides .

Title: Making Static Analysis Part Of Your Build Process

Speaker: William Pugh, Professor, University of Maryland

Abstract:

FindBugs is a static analysis tool that finds coding mistakes in Java programs.
While many individuals and small projects use FindBugs, many large projects
and companies have failed to successfully incorporate it into their software
development process, despite its ability to find hundreds of serious coding mistakes
in their code base. I’ll discuss at the role of static analysis in software development,
the issue of “harmless” coding mistakes, tools and techniques for getting the most
bang for your buck with static analysis, and how to convince your team to effectively adopt
static analysis for defect detection
Ticket Info: $15 for non members

Tuesday April 7, 2009 at 6:30pm
Cubberley Theatre
4000 Middlefield Rd.
Palo Alto, California 94303 Get Directions

For those of you think SUN makes no money from Java check this post
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20090311

March 3nd 2009, from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Where

Cubberly Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, California 94105

Agenda

6:30-7:00 Doors open. Networking.
7:00-9:00 Presentations.

Price

$15 for non-members and free for members.

Abstract

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is ideally suited to running Java applications. It lets you develop using standard Java software packages such as Tomcat and MySQL and rapidly deploy applications on servers that are provisioned and managed via a web services API. However, because it is a cloud, some aspects of EC2 are very different than a traditional, physical computing environment. In this session you will learn about those differences and how they impact how you handle security, networking, storage and availability. We describe how to use EC2 and the other Amazon web services to develop and deploy Java applications. You will learn how to use EC2 availability zones to deploy highly available applications. We also discuss how to architect secure applications for Amazon EC2.

Presenter

Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the book “POJOs in Action.” He runs a consulting and training company that helps customers reduce the cost of development and increase the effectiveness of their development teams. His technical interests include domain-driven design, cloud computing and developer testing. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems and recently became a Java Champion. Chris is the founder of Cloud Tools, which is an open-source project for quickly and easily deploying Java applications on Amazon EC2, and of Cloud Foundry, which provides outsourced, automated data center management. He has spoken at various conferences including JavaOne 2006/2007/2008, No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums, Colorado Software Summit, SD West, The Spring Experience, SpringOne, and Javapolis as well as Java user groups. Chris holds a computer science degree from the Cambridge University in England and lives in Oakland, CA where he runs the local Java User Group. Website and blog: http://chrisrichardson.net

Additional Resources

Chris’ “Running Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2″ February 17 class in Oakland: http://cloudfoundry.eventbrite.com/