Spring Roo: An Introduction

Published July 13th, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Spring Roo is an exciting new rapid application development framework. It slices and dices and packs all the punches of frameworks like Rails and Grails but the end result is pure Java. In this presentation, we will be discussing what Spring Roo is and demonstrate it’s how it can be used to trim your development time and make your code more readable.

Video Producer: Oklahoma City Java Users Group

NetBeans IDE 6.9 – JavaFX Composer and OSGi

Published July 1st, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools, User Interface | Leave a Comment

NetBeans engineering managers Jeff Jullion-Ceccarelli and Martin Ryzl offer a tour of NetBeans IDE 6.9, including a demo of the new JavaFX Composer.

Funky Java, Objective Scala

Published June 29th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Polyglot programming is here and can improve your style. The first part of this session will look at libraries and techniques that you can use with today’s Java 6, and a peek ahead to Java 7. In the second part of this session we will look at Scala, it similarities to Java, and it’s easy access improvements. Along the way, some functional techniques will be introduced where they make sense, and where they make life easier. This is intended to be like easing into a warm swimming pool rather than diving in cold at the deep end.

Java 4-Ever Trailer

Published June 25th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

JavaZone 2010 promotional video: The very funny story of a young Java developer growing up in a .NET family.

http://jz10.java.no/java-4-ever-trailer.html

What’s hot in Java for App Engine

Published June 22nd, 2010 Under Architecture, Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Learn what’s new with Java on App Engine. We’ll take a whirlwind tour through the changes since last year, walk through a code sample for task queues and the new blobstore service, and demonstrate techniques for improving your application’s performance. We’ll top it off with a glimpse into some new features that we’ve planned for the year ahead.

keep looking »