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Featured Sessions
By Brian Sletten
You've read the articles, the books, the Ph.D. thesis and all of the
meta-commentary about building RESTful APIs, but you're still not sure
where to begin.
This is an interactive session with almost no slides. You should come prepared to pair program with me and everyone else in the room. We will tackle any reasonable suggestions of what might benefit from a RESTful interface. We will generate working code and explore the iterative process by which good REST-oriented APIs are created.
Bring your ideas for open source projects that we might want to expose through a resource-oriented model.
By David Bock
Internationalization and Localization in Java is easy, right? Everyone
knows you just store your strings in some resource bundles, set the
locale, wave your hands a little bit, and your application is
good-to-go. Right? Maybe not... Java provides some great utilities to
get started, but leaves you needing more when it comes to things like
screen layout, cultural sensitivities, semantic differences in
translation, use of color and iconography, and other issues.
By David Bock
Most good developers eventually have the opportunity to be managers.
Whether they call you the "project manager", "Technical Lead", "Lead
Developer", or some other classic middle-management title, you become
the 'goto' guy between management and developers. You're the guy who is
expected to keep the project in-line, track a schedule, and
occasionally answer the question "How's it going?", and perhaps still
contribute at a technical level. So how do you do that?
By Howard Lewis Ship
Tapestry 5 is a complete rewrite of Tapestry from the ground up. It
takes everything good about Tapestry and cranks the volume up to
eleven, while removing the frustrating parts of using Tapestry. This
session takes the wraps off this new and innovative technology, showing
off important new features such as live class reloading (the ability to
change your Java classes and continue using the application without
interruption or redeployment), the simplified coding model, and the
total lack of XML. This session is of interest to those already using
Tapestry 4, and those new to Tapestry and ready to jump on the
bandwagon.
By Jared Richardson
Technical debt has long been recognized in technical circles for years,
but convincing your manager to budget time to repay "technical debt"
has always been problematic. Let's couch the term technical debt
concept in language more familiar to our managers: credit card debt.
By Jared Richardson
Software projects fail over and over for many of the same reasons.
We'll look at some of the more avoidable problems and some solid ways
to fix them, or avoid them in the first place.
By Jared Richardson
There are a number of great techniques you can use across technologies
and projects. Come hear some of my favorites and contribute a few of
your own. We'll discuss topics from DRY to creating a zone defense for
your product.
By Jeff Brown
Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java platform. The language
and its libraries bring many things to the table to ease the process of
building applications for the Java platform. This session provides a
detailed run through Groovy with lots of code samples to drive home the
power of the language.
By Jeff Brown
Grails is a full stack MVC framework for building web applications for
the Java platform. Grails makes web application development both fun
and easy. This session covers all of the fundamentals of building web
applications with Grails.
By Kito Mann
Over the past few years, a lot of time has been spent explaining what
JSF is, and how different pieces of it work. However, little attention
has been given to the process of architecting applications. This makes
JSF architecture seem like a black art, since there are so many
possible approaches to the application's architecture.
By Kito Mann
JBoss Seam is a popular open-source application framework for Java
Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5.0. For web application
developers, a significant benefit of Seam is that it greatly enhances
JavaServer Faces technology. This session explains key Seam features
such as tight integration with EJB3, Hibernate and JPA integration,
conversations, RESTful web pages, and so on.
By Mark Fisher
Developing enterprise applications isn't easy. You not only have to
worry about constantly evolving business logic, but also need to
address infrastructure concerns ranging from transaction management and
security to manageability and integration with diverse external
applications. Spring, the most popular lightweight enterprise
application framework, comes to the rescue by simplifying the common
needs of enterprise applications. This session (part 1 of 2) presents
the core concepts of the Spring Framework.
By Mark Fisher
Spring Security (formerly known as 'Acegi') enables self-contained,
consistent, and extensible solutions for securing your applications.
Version 2.0 provides major enhancements including a domain-specific XML
namespace, convention-based defaulting, and annotation support. This
provides a significantly simpler experience for developers while still
supporting the same degree of flexibility.
By Mark Fisher
The first part of this two-part session will focus on the essentials of
Enterprise Integration with Spring. The discussion will begin with a
whirlwind tour of the enterprise integration support libraries in the
Spring Framework core. We will then explore message-driven architecture
concepts in light of well-established design principles such as loose
coupling and separation of concerns.
By Mark Johnson
This session will explore GroovyWS as a tool to quickly produce and or
consume a web service. Web Service testing becomes much easier without
the need to purchase expense testing tools using the GroovyWS
framework.
By Mark Johnson
With all of these web services becoming available there is an
increasing need for tools to pull together multiple web services into
one composite service. BPEL is an up and coming approach to
orchestrating a workflow consisting of Web Service calls.
By Mark Richards
Awareness about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has grown
significantly in the past several years. Unfortunately, along with that
growth has come a significant amount of confusion about what SOA really
is. SOA has become such a ubiquitous buzzword that it now has many
faces and means different things to different people. CIO's, managers,
vendors, business users, architects, and developers all see SOA
differently which creates a sea of confusion about what is and isn't
SOA. In this highly interactive and thought provoking session we will
look beyond the hype and marketure of SOA and explore SOA from an
architecture and development point of view - in other words, SOA as an
architecture pattern. During this session we will look at SOA use
cases, services, integration, implementation, guiding architecture
principles of SOA, and attempt to answer the following question: What
is and isn't SOA?
By Mark Richards
Most web-based applications rely solely on the database to manage
transactions, thereby freeing the developer from having to worry about
transaction management. While this works in some circumstances, there
are times when the use of transactions is vital to the integrity and
operations of an application and its corresponding data. In this
session I will demonstrate through real-world coding examples why
transactions are such a critical part of the application development
process. I will review the basics of both programmatic and declarative
transactions, then introduce three transaction design patterns and
explain when they should be applied, how to use them, and what problems
they solve. By the end of this session you will see that by using
transaction design patterns you can build an effective transaction
management strategy for your application with very little effort.
By Neal Ford
The Gang of Four book should have been entitled "Palliatives for
Statically Typed Languages", because the recipes it provides are
cumbersome solutions to the problems it poses. Using powerful languages
makes the solutions in the GoF book look hopelessly complicated. This
session shows how to solve the same problems concisely, elegantly, and
with far fewer lines of code using the facilities of dynamic languages.
By Neal Ford
This session describes JRuby, the 100% pure-Java implementation of the
Ruby programming language. It covers the basics of programming with
JRuby and examples of how to integrate it into existing Java projects.
By Neal Ford
What does code + methodology have to do with one another? Everything!
Agile projects focus on delivering working code, and tools exist to
allow you to verify some quality metrics for your code. This session is
a survey of tools and metrics that allow you to determine the quality
of your code and strategies to "wire it" into your agile project.
By Richard Monson-Haefel
What does GPL, LGPL, MIT, Apache licenses, copy left, and dual
licensing mean? Richard Monson-Haefel explains both the legal and
technical implications of the major open source licenses in plain
English. He explains when and how you can use open source in the
enterprise and in the development of software products and how to
protect your organization from abusing open source licensing.
By Richard Monson-Haefel
With literally hundreds of RIA products (e.g., Adobe Flash, Nexaweb,
Backbase) and open source Ajax projects (e.g. Dojo, GWT, Prototype) to
choose from. Picking the right RIA technology for the job requires
months of research. Richard Monson-Haefel has been researching and
writing about RIA alternatives for two years and has already done the
research so you don't have to.
By Venkat Subramaniam
Java has been around for well over a decade now. It started out with the goal of being simple.
Over the years, its picked up quite a bit of features and along comes complexity. In this presentation
we will take a look at some tricky features of Java, those that can trip you over, and also look at some
ways to improve your Java code.
By Venkat Subramaniam
We all have seen our share of bad code. We certainly have come across some good code as well.
What are the characteristics of good code? How can we identify those? What practices can promote
us to write and maintain more of those good quality code. This presentation will focus on this
topic that has a major impact on our ability to be agile and succeed.
By Venkat Subramaniam
DSL or Domain Specific Languages focus on a domain or problem at hand. They're expressive, but their
restricted scope keeps them simple and small from the user point of view. However, designing them is not easy.
In this presentation we will explore the features of Groovy and show how they can be used to create DSLs.
By Venkat Subramaniam
OSGi is a specification that helps with versioning Java modules at runtime.
Spring helps with dependency injection of Java components and beans.
Spring has embraced OSGi and allows you to integrate different OSGi implementations into your
Spring applications. In this presentation we will look at the rational for mixing Spring and OSGi
and look at code examples of the same.
By Venkat Subramaniam
OSGi is a specification that helps with versioning Java modules at runtime.
Spring helps with dependency injection of Java components and beans.
Spring has embraced OSGi and allows you to integrate different OSGi implementations into your
Spring applications. In this presentation we will look at the rational for mixing Spring and OSGi
and look at code examples of the same.
Featured Speakers
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Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Consultant |
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David Bock
Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc. |
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Howard Lewis Ship
Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind |
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Jared Richardson
Co-author of Ship It |
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Jeff Brown
G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer |
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Kito Mann
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action. |
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Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead |
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Mark Johnson
Director of Consulting at CGI |
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Mark Richards
Executive IT Architect, IBM, Author of Java Transaction Design Strategies |
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Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc. |
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Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc. |
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Venkat Subramaniam
Founder of Agile Developer, Inc. |
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Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Consultant
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus
on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system
architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has
spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security
consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D
simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based
systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William
and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC,
a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies
to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by
conventional tools and techniques.
David Bock
Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.
David Bock is a Principal Consultant at CodeSherpas, a company he founded in 2007. Mr. Bock is also the President of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group, the Editor of O'Reilly's OnJava.com website, and a frequent speaker on technology in venues such as the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.
In January 2006, Mr. Bock was honored by being awarded the title of Java Champion by a panel of esteemed leaders in the Java Community in a program sponsored by Sun. There are approximately 100 active Java Champions worldwide.
David has also served on several JCP panels, including the Specification of the Java 6 Platform and the upcoming Java Module System.
In addition to his public speaking and training activities, Mr. Bock actively consults as a software engineer, project manager, and team mentor for commercial and government clients.
Howard Lewis Ship
Creator of Tapestry and HiveMind
Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache
Tapestry project, and the creator of the Apache HiveMind project. He
has over fifteen years of full-time software development under his
belt, with over eight years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer
support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for
Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.
Howard is the author of Tapestry in Action for Manning Publications
(which covers Tapestry 3.0), and is currently an independent
open-source and JEE consultant, specializing in customized Tapestry
training. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, a
novelist.
Howard is busy working on Tapestry 5, a completely new code base that he expects to shake the foundations of the Java world.
Jared Richardson
Co-author of Ship It
Jared Richardson, co-author of Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful
Software Projects, is a speaker and agile coach at 6th Sense
Analytics. Jared has been in the industry for more than fifteen years
as a consultant, developer, tester, and manager.
Until recently he was an independent consultant focused helping teams
build better software. He's now bringing that same focus to 6th Sense
Analytics and their clients, using both the 6th Sense toolset and his
unique experience. Jared can be found online at Agile Artisans and the Sixth Sense Analytics blog.
Jeff Brown
G2One Director Of North American Operations - Groovy and Grails Developer
Jeff Brown is the Director Of North American Operations for G2One and a
member of the core Groovy and Grails development teams. For over 10
years Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented
systems.
Jeff teaches a number of Java and object oriented training courses in
addition to doing consulting and mentoring work for industries
including Aerospace, Financial and Medical. Areas of expertise include
Java, agile web development with Groovy and Grails, distributed
computing, object database systems, object oriented analysis and design
and agile development.
Kito Mann
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action.
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central (www.jsfcentral.com) and
the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of
several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and
Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the
Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise
application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF
product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins
University.
Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead
Mark Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and lead of
the Spring Integration product. As a core developer for the Spring
Framework, he has played a central role in developing the
annotation-based configuration features of Spring 2.5. He has also
provided consulting and training services for clients across numerous
industries throughout North America including several fortune 500
companies.
In addition to the "No Fluff, Just Stuff" symposium tour, Mark
speaks regularly at conferences such as The Spring Experience and
SpringOne. He has also presented at Java User Groups throughout the
United States on various Spring-related topics.
Mark Johnson
Director of Consulting at CGI
Mark Johnson is currently Director of Consulting at CGI where he is
exploring software development management approaches to leverage
offshore and local development resources to deliver high quality
applications on-time and budget in a highly competitive environment.
Mark Johnson has over 20 years of software development experience
in industries including Healthcare, state government, and strategic
sourcing. Mark most recently has spent the last 2 years working with
Commonwealth of Massachusets EOHHS to develop the NewMMIS application.
The NewMMIS application makes use of J2EE, Portal, and Web Services
technologies designed to modernize the existing Medicaid processing. In
addition, Mark is active in the software community as the President of
the New England Java Users Group. When not working, Mark can be found
riding his mountain bike on local trails and playing with his family.
Mark Richards
Executive IT Architect, IBM, Author of Java Transaction Design Strategies
Mark Richards is an Executive IT Architect at IBM, where he is involved
in the architecture and design of large-scale Service Oriented
Architectures in J2EE and other technologies, primarily in the
financial services industry. He has been involved in the software
industry since 1984, and has significant experience and expertise in
J2EE architecture and development, Object-oriented design and
development, and systems integration. Mark served as the President of
the Boston Java User Group in 1997 and 1998, and the President of the
New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. He is the author of
"Java Transaction Design Strategies", contributing author of "NFJS
Anthology Volume 1", contributing author of "NFJS Anthology Volume 2",
and contributing author of the Java Coding Standards book produced by
the Nejug. Mark is an IBM Certified Application Architect, Certified
Master IT Architect (TOG), Sun Certified J2EE Business Component
Developer, a Sun Certified J2EE Enterprise Architect, a Sun Certified
Java Programmer, a BEA WebLogic Certified Developer, a Certified Java
Instructor, and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Boston
University. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just
Stuff Symposium Series and speaks at conferences and user groups around
the country. When he is not working Mark can usually be found hiking
with his wife and two daughters in the White Mountains or along the
Appalachian Trail.
Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks.
He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications,
instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD
presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development
(Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET,
Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neals primary consulting focus is the
design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is
also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30
developers conferences worldwide.
Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.
Richard. Monson-Haefel is the author of five best-selling editions of
Enterprise JavaBeans (O'Reilly), J2EE Web Services (Addison-Wesley),
and the coauthor of Java Message Service (O'Reilly). He served on the
JCP Executive Committee, which oversees the JSRs (specifications)
developed for the J2SE and J2EE platforms. He also served on the Groovy
(JSR-241), J2EE 1.4 (JSR-151), EJB 2.1 (JSR-153) and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220)
expert groups for the Java Community Process. Richard was a founder of
the Apache J2EE Application Server Project (Geronimo) and the OpenEJB
project - an open source EJB container. Richard was a Sr. Analyst for
Burton Group covering open source, Java EE, RIA/Ajax, mobile
development, and other topics for 4 years. Today, Richard is the Vice
President of Developer Relations at Curl, Inc.
Venkat Subramaniam
Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained
and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada,
Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and
succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks
frequently at international conferences and user groups. He is author
of ".NET Gotchas" (O'Reilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award
winning "Practices of an Agile Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and
author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java
Developer" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
