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.

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.

In this video Kevlin Henney explains what it means to write Java programs according to his view on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and takes a philosophical approach to encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance.

If you are a Java EE 6 user, your choices for tools have never been better. Maybe you have been using a specific tool forever (NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ), and do not have the time of the energy to learn a new one?

This video covers in detail a number of advanced metaprogramming concepts in Groovy. The discussion will cover using dynamic method interception, custom meta-class implementations and Groovy’s Meta Object Protocol to build flexible applications in Groovy including implementing a Domain Specific Language (DSL).
Watch this video on http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/metaprogramming-groovy

This video shows how to set up and configure Eclipse and Tomcat in our development environment.

Your users often know how to write code. Take advantage of that by creating a custom DSL — a minilanguage. This session goes over the different ways you can provide your users with the ability to write code that’s executed inline and how to add features to that code that make it more valuable to your users.