Patrick Curran, Chair of the Java Community Process (JCP), presents the history of standards, the role that they play in the modern world and how Java standards are developed through the JCP. He explains how Java developers can get involved in the standards-developing process and the benefits of doing so.

Spring Roo is an open source application development tool for Java developers that allows you to code 100% in Java and to reuse all your existing Java knowledge, skills and experience.

As Grails 2 has just been released, it’s time to find out just why we think you should upgrade. This video presents the new usability features that are targeted at improving your productivity, such as the new interactive command line, improved class reloading and much better unit testing support. You’ll also discover powerful new features such as ‘where’ queries, database migrations, and static resource (CSS, JS, etc.) handling.

Maven is an open source build tool traditionally used in Java and Java EE projects to compile source files, execute unit tests and assemble distribution artifacts. The first part of this tutorial explains how to download and install Maven in our development environment. The second part provides a first view at pom.xml configuration file and show how to compile a project.

To make the transition from Java to Scala easier, you might want to keep some of the existing Java frameworks your company have experience in using. At least that is our theory when we chose to keep SpringMVC as web framework in my current Scala project. Time will tell if we are right or wrong in that theory :)

In this article, based on chapter 3 of Spring in Practice, Willie Wheeler, John Wheeler and Joshua White show you how to build a simple Spring Java application to manage a roster.  You will write some Spring Web MVC code with a goal to get an intuitive feel for how things work in Spring Web MVC.

This GenerateTestCases IntelliJ IDEA plugin aims to make Behavior Driven Development easier with a really cool and easy approach that consist in annotating interface method with desired behaviors. It generates your unit test methods, so you don’t think about how you will call your unit test methods. The plugin allows you to jump from the method you are testing to the unit test method with just a click from the behavior defined as a javadoc custom @should tag.

This video is aimed at project managers, software architects, developers and testers who are interested in fitting into the global frame of Service Management within their company – or those ones of their customers. You have already suffered from the “On my machine it worked!”-syndrome and do no longer accept this as an excuse! Solutions are easy to implement and well known! To have a good starting point the target audience should be familiar with basic ideas of development and service management issues.

This video shows how to take an existing JavaEE 6 application and presents the complete life cycle of taking this application from desktop to a PaaS environment. It details how JavaEE containers such as GlassFish can provide such service orchestration and elasticity capabilities, explaining the development, testing and debugging of such an application in the PaaS environment.

In this presentation, Bob Lee the CTO of Square Inc discusses where Java comes from and where it is heading. According to him, the main driver is scalability and throwing more hardware is not the solution. He discusses also JRuby, Android, invokedynamic, closures and how open Java is.