This tutorial episode shows how to use Eclipse wizards to create a Dynamic Web Project (part 1). You will then create and run your first Servlet (part 2).

This video shows you how to transition from a Java writing imperative programmer to a functional programmer, using Java, Clojure and Scala for examples. It takes common topics from imperative languages and looks at alternative ways of solving those problems in functional languages.

This video shows the refactoring of Java legacy code and the presentation was given to the Java User Group Berlin Brandenburg. The beginning is a mess of ugly code that uses an HttpClient to acquire currency conversions. The higher-order goal of the code is to find deals in currency translation that result in a net positive.

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.

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.