June 17, 2008 - Introduction to WebBeans

Description

Web Beans is an elegant new component model for Java that draws upon ideas from JBoss Seam and Google Guice. In this session, Emmanuel will introduce the Web Beans programming model and describe how Web Beans integrates with existing Java EE technologies, such as EJB 3.0, JSF, and Servlets, and how it dramatically simplifies the EE programming model. While many of the features provided by Web Beans (dependency injection, contextual lifecycle, configuration, interception, event notification) are familiar, the innovative use of meta-annotations is uniquely expressive and typesafe.

Speaker

After graduating from Supelec (a French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel Bernard spent a few years in the retail industry, where he became involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team four years ago and is now a core developer at JBoss. He is the lead developer of Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager, two key projects on top of Hibernate Core implementing the Java Persistence specification, as well as Hibernate Search and Validator. Bernardis a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and JUGs, including JavaOne, JBoss World, and JAX.

July 15, 2008 - Terracotta: Open Source Network-Attached Memory

Description

Terracotta: Open Source Network-Attached Memory In this session we show you how you can get Network-Attached Memory as an appliance-like infrastructure service through Terracotta's JVM-level clustering technology (http://terracotta.org). You will learn what Network-Attached Memory is, how it works and how Terracotta can simplify the task of clustering an enterprise application immensely by sharing the heap of the JVM underneath the application instead of clustering the application itself.

JVM-level clustering can turn single-node, multi-threaded apps into distributed, multi-node apps, often with no code changes. This is possible by plugging in to the Java Memory Model in order to maintain key Java semantics of pass-by-reference, thread coordination and garbage collection across the cluster. Terracotta enables this using only declarative configuration with minimal impact to existing code and provides fine-grained field-level replication which means your objects no longer need to implement Java serialization. This session will show how it works and how you can start clustering your POJO-based Web applications (based on Spring, Struts, Wicket, RIFE, EHCache, Quartz, Lucene, DWR, Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty or Geronimo etc.).
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Speaker

Orion Letizi is a co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta. He has worked in enterprise Java for nearly ten years. Before Terracotta, he was a software architect at Walmart.com.

August 19, 2008 - Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java

Description

This month's session will provide numerous live coding examples which will teach you how to build RIAs with Flex and Java. Flex is an Open Source RIA development toolkit which can easily be connected to a Java back-end via Web Services or the Open Source BlazeDS product. Come and learn how to build RIAs with Flex and Java.

Speaker

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP representative to JSRs 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late 90s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java-based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.