JAVAWUG BOF 50 Summertime! July 21, 2009

[ANN] JAVAWUG BOF 50 :: Summertime! :: Tuesday 21 July 2009 :: London, UK

Hey Hello

This is Peter Pilgrim, JUG Leader, Java Web User Group UK.

I would like to formally announce that JAVAWUG is holding the Fiftieth Birds-of-Feather (Meet-up 50) at Skills Matter on Tuesday, 21st July 2009 from 18:30 until 20:30.

"JAVAWUG has hit 50 and not out!" (a Cricket pun)

Register http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/birds-of-a-feather-50
Announce HTML: http://www.jroller.com/javawug/entry/javawug_bof_50_summertime

CONTEXT

"Whither Java? Are we facing a winter of discontent? Will it be a period of autumn, malnutrition of innovation, fragmentation and digital anti-socialism, which may in turn transform in to blustery winds of disharmony and technological market dislocation? In this [financial and] economic environment, we now need to learn new skills as fast as possible. This is a need. The changes in Java are slowing down and this happening coindentally with the market downtown. Developers are asking themselves the question: Am I invested enough in the right technology? Should I keep betting on Java? In fact, the JDK engineering team are currently only concerned with small changes to the Java langauge, Project Coin and Jigsaw. All of these, former, subjects are currently controversial topics and warrant further discussion than I have space here. Clearly many developers want extreme change in Java development, some have already left the platform to move on to Ruby and C# (dot net) in order to find it. Every one knows that is olde news. A lot of us have stayed with the Java platform. We are the loyal ones. Why? The new news is what exactly going to happen to those of us, who through love, passion or just professional need, stayed with the Java platform? Without any doubt the Java language and platform will remain important for another decade, at least. A grounding in programming Java is still essential to any computer science student graduating this year, still the platform is expanding with new brand new possibilities. It is pretty clear to most of us in the business that the question is really, Java and X and just what is that X-factor, the other thing called X? What technology do we really want to invest our precious time and energy to learn other than Java. This brings me to point of this entire discourse, and I know you have probably seen this inquiry before, is this really the end of summer of Java? Is this the season of Java's autumn coming to us sooner or much later? [This all reads like good prose for an AudioBoo to me *PP*]"

OUR TALKS

Slot 1

Time: 18:35-19:00
Author: Peter Pilgrim
Subject: Essential JavaFX Mix with XStream, Jersey and Nelson FX
URL: http://jroller.com/peter_pilgrim/the_nelson_framework/

Abstract: JavaFX 1.2 was released during JavaOne 2009 and has improved functionality including a brand suite of UI controls. These standard controls are an important contribution in order to developers to build Enterprise application. Peter Pilgrim talks about the new controls and how to connect a JavaFX application to a remote server application. Generally JavaFX client side application can call web services with relative ease. On the server side several developers are writing RESTful end points with the new JAX RS framework, Project Jersey is an example of JAX-RS (JSR 311) implementation. Peter Pilgrim will also talk about using the XStream framework in order to quickly produce XML output. Recently Peter open sourced the Nelson Framework for JavaFX.

Slot 2

Time: 19:05-19:30
Author: Neil Bartlett
Subject: What's New Eclipse 3.5 Gallileo?
URL: http://www.eclipse.org/galileo/

Abstract: For those Java developers who think that Eclipse is best Java community could ever get out of Open Source other than Java itself, here is the latest release code-named Galileo. Named after the famous Italian astronomer from the renaissance period, Galileo is this year’s release from the Eclipse Foundation with over 33 projects. In comparison, last year’s release Ganymede contained 23 projects in comparison. Of course this release is not only meant for JavaEE developers but for lot many others developers in different domains. Galileo has come in different packages like its predecessors. For example there is a Pulsar version of the IDE aimed a mobile Java developer and another tailored distributed aimed at reporting and management information. Different packages have different capabilities and are targeted for specific developer communities.

Slot 3

Time: 19:35 - 20:00
Author: Mike Burton
Subject: Integrating Javascript and JBoss Seam

Abstract: For a recent requirement one of my web applications needed to know the client/browser PC's screen resolution. This talk will show how to do this using Javascript, Richfaces/Ajax4Jsf, Facelets and JBoss Seam.

Slot 4

Time: 20:05-20:30
Author: Peter Lawrey
Subject: Java Concurrency and the Executor Framework

Abstract: On the Java forums Peter Lawrey has observed quite a few questions to which ExecutorServiceand ScheduledExecutorService would make things much simpler if used the right way. The executor services are the recommended standard Java API to develop background period processing. As you might be aware programming threads with complete correctness in behaviour in hard in any language, including Java. Peter will put together a wiki page for comment and present/discuss it at BOF 50. If he gets enough time he will look at how you as Polyglot Developers can use them with Groovy as well. ;)

Understanding how the executor service lays the foundation for a distributed execution framework as seen in HazelCast.

REGISTRATION

http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/birds-of-a-feather-50
http://www.jroller.com/javawug/entry/javawug_bof_50_summertime

Don't forget to register otherwise you will miss on the JavaFX Radar Wheel for ZeroTurnaround JavaRebel and JetBrains giveaway at the end of the night.

Peter Pilgrim,
JUG Leader, JAVAWUG
http://jroller.com/javawug
http://jroller.com/peter_pilgrim

Official Website: http://www.jroller.com/javawug/entry/javawug_bof_50_summertime