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 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