Session Descriptions
Ben Galbraith - Book author, Ajaxian-at-Large, and Consultant
Advanced Swing: Architecture and Frameworks
Are you spending more time plumbing your Swing applications than solving business problems? Has your Swing application grown out of control? This session is for you.Ajaxian JavaScript Frameworks
In the "Introduction to Ajax" session, we discuss what Ajax is, how it works, and how others are using it.This session goes deeper into Ajax by reviewing the existing JavaScript frameworks that aim to make it easier.
Being Productive with Java in the Enterprise
It sounded like such a good idea back in the mid-nineties: based the Java platform on a standards-based, open community, and let anyone participate. There is no question that Sun's strategy for Java's stewardship via the JCP and sponsored open-source has yielded some enormous benefits. However, these have not been enjoyed without tremendous cost.Creating Killer Graphics and Professional PDFs with XML
You can do some pretty cool things with XML these days (despite what some curmudgeons in the technology world may claim). In the past few years,XML has solidified its place as the lingua franca of data sharing and data manipulation. But XML as a data transfer language is only marginally
interesting. Things get really exciting when XML is dynamically transformed into other formats.
In this session, I focus on two XML formats which can be readily transformed into high-quality presentation-centric output formats. XSL-FO is a
typesetting format for XML that can be readily converted into PDF (or Postscript and some other formats). SVG is a vector graphics language in XML --
a sort of open-source version of the popular Macromedia Flash format. SVG files can be converted into beautiful, completely scalable -- and interactive -
- images.
Creating Polished Swing Applications
Too often, Swing applications are slow, ugly, and hard-to-maintain. It turns out that it doesn't have to be this way. Swing can be used to create highly-responsive, beautiful applications that are very maintainable. If this isn't consistent with your own experience, don't feel bad; its not very obvious how to make Swing sing.Introduction to Ajax
Ajax -- called DHTML just a few months ago -- has revolutionized (or "radically iterated", if you like) web application development in the short few months since the term was coined.What is it all about? Why are we excited about a set of capabilites that have been sitting in our browser for years? What can you do with it? And, how can you do it?
Making the Most of XML
For many of us, XML has become a ubiquitous presence in application development, whether parsing, validating, or manipulating it. For many of us, allthat XML is coupled with pain, in the form of tedious APIs (like, say, the W3C DOM API) and confusing technologies (oh, I don't know, W3C XML
Schema?).
Brian Goetz - Author of Java Concurrency in Practice
Garbage Collection in the HotSpot JVM
Pop quiz: which is faster, Java or C++? If you are talking about allocation performance, the answer is Java, hands-down.Squashing bugs with FindBugs
Does your program have bugs, despite unit tests, integration tests, and code reviews? You bet. Are you using static analysis as part of your QA process? If not, you're probably missing out on some bugs that can be caught before they bite your customers.Structuring concurrent applications in JDK 5.0
JDK 5.0 is a huge step forward in developing concurrent Java classes and applications, providing a rich set of high-level concurrency building blocks.The Java Memory Model
What's the worst thing that can happen when you fail to synchronize in a concurrent Java program? Its probably worse than you think -- modern shared-memory processors can do some pretty weird things when left to their own devices.Bruce Tate - Author of 3 JavaOne best sellers
Beyond Java
All programming languages have a limited life span, and Java is no different. This is a philosophical session rather than a programming session. Sooner or later, Java will lose its leadership position. This session will explore Java's strengths and weaknesses. We'll try to understand whether conditions are ripe for alternatives to emerge, and what those alternatives may be.Introduction to Hibernate
O/RM (Object/Relational Mapping) seeks to eliminate repetitive or tedious work enabling the CRUD (create, read, update, delete) that underlies most applications. Hibernate is a popular, open-source O/RM tool that uses reflection (instead of code generation, like EJB, or bytecode injection, like JDO) to manage your persistence layer.Introduction to Spring
This session, for the Spring beginner, helps you:• Understand dependency injection and inversion of control
• Know the meaning of lightweight containers and Spring
• Understand the basic pieces of Spring
• See core Spring modules in action, including Persistence, AOP, transactions.
Attendees need not know anything about Spring. This session does talk about integration with core J2EE frameworks like JDBC and transactions.
Where Agile meets Argyle: New processes in established companies
Agile programming is a collection of core principles and techniques that allow software developers to create lighter, more responsive applications, and to have fun doing it. Many established organizations are either openly or sub-conciously hostile to many of the principles of Agile development.Clinton Begin - Creator of the iBATIS Data Mapper
iBATIS and the Enterprise Database
This presentation will focus on database challenges that object oriented developers often face in an enterprise environment. Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools are not ideal for all databases, and therefore alternatives such as iBATIS must be sought.Dave Thomas - Pragmatic Programmer, Ruby, Rails, Process Improvement
Herding Racehorses and Racing Sheep
Are you frustrated by experts who can't tell you what to do, or by junior team members who refuse to see the big picture? How can you best develop careers: both yours and those of your teammates and managers? How can we learn to apply experience more effectively, and why do the many approaches designed to tame complexity actually end up increasing it?Ruby for Java Programmers
Ruby recently enjoyed its tenth birthday. Instead of cake and candles, the community celebrated by releasing a wave of new libraries and frameworks that make Ruby programming even easier. This talk features some of the best of these, as we explore Ruby.Ruby on Rails
The Ruby on Rails framework has exploded onto the scene over the last few months. Propelled by some genuine benefits, and fueled by a whole lot of controversy, Rails seems here to stay. So, is it a Java killer? (No.) Is it a great way to develop certain classes of web application? (Yes.) Does it really deliver the 10-fold increase in developer productivity that some have claimed? (It depends...)David Geary - Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
Felix: A bag of Tricks for Java Server Faces
Okay, so you know a little about JSF. You understand managed beans, action outcomes and how to attach standard JSF validators to components in a JSP page.But there is a great deal of functionality that the average web application supports that JSF doesn't provide out of the box. For example, wouldn't you like to have JSF automatically place asteriks in front of labels for required fields? You are going to implement client-side validation, which JSF does not support out of the box, aren't you? Of course, you're going to test your application, right? And don't forget to trap unauthorized use of the back button.
Killer Web UIs
User interfaces are usually the most turbulent aspect of an application during development. Constant tinkering with the UI means constant changes to your code, so as a UI developer, you want to minimize the scope and effects of those code changes.Open-source Java provides two powerful software packages that help you manage UI complexity: Tiles and Sitemesh. Tiles composes webpages from discrete regions of your user interface known as tiles. A tile contains a JSP page for layout and one or more JSP pages for content. Sitemesh decorates webpages with decorators that can be associated with URL patterns. Once you set up your decorators, you can decorate pages that match a decorator's URL pattern.
Shale: Turbo-charge your JSF Apps
JavaServer Faces is a well designed user interface framework, but it lacks a number of features you might otherwise expect out of the box; for example, JSF does not explicitly provide support for client-side validation.So, from the folks that brought you Struts, comes Shale, a collection of useful enhancements to JSF. A top-level Apache Software Foundation project, Shale adds some really cool features to vanilla JSF, including:
Web flow: script dialog flow
Remote Method Calls: easily call JavaBean methods from JavaScript
Tapestry-like views: code views in pure HTML
Use Apache Commons Validator validators on the client or server, or both
JSF testing framework: mocks for easy JSF testing
There's a lot of cool stuff in Shale that makes JSF a much more compelling proposition. Come see what it's all about.
Jason Hunter - Author of Java Servlet Programming
An Introduction to XQuery
XQuery is a new language from the W3C that lets you query and manipulate XML -- or anything that can be represented as XML, such as relational databases. As a Java developer -- especially a server-side Java developer -- XQuery is key to searching and manipulating large XML repositories or performing any XML-centric task.This talk introduces XQuery. I'll explain the XQuery language; I'll show how to call XQuery from Java; and as the creator of JDOM, I'll also explain when to use XQuery instead of JDOM, and when to use both.
Extreme Web Caching
Web Caching is very important for high traffic, high performance web site but few people know all the professional-level strategies. In this talk I'll share some of the tricks of the trade, including advanced tips from Yahoo's Mike Radwin.We'll start with the basics: using client-side caches, conditional get, and proxies. Then we'll talk about more advanced features: how best to handle personalized content, setting up an image caching server, using a cookie-free domain for static content, and using randomization in URLs for accurate hit metering or sensitive content.
Forgotten Algorithms
There are many interesting and useful algorithms that people just don't remember or never learned. The Boyer-Moore string search algorithm is one prime example. The randomized skip list is another. Both solve common problems with wonderful flair and finesse -- and performance-wisethey blow the pants off brute force solutions. This session covers these two algorithms plus several others. It's like your college algorithms course but with a practical bent and absolutely zero proofs. Extra bonus: The Google PageRank algorithm.
Java Metadata
Java's new Metadata facility introduced in J2SE 5.0 defines a way to attach decorations to classes, fields, methods, and even packages that can be extracted by the compiler or runtime tools to provide advanced functionality. Think of metadata as an extended @deprecated flag, or think of XDoclet++. In this tutorial session you'll learn how Metadata fits in the Java platform (and how it compares to the C# platform). We'll cover how to use the metadata attributes provided in the core J2SE libraries and how to write your own. We'll also show a bit of what's coming in JSR-181, tasked to define standard metadata attributes for web services.New Features in Java 5
The new Java 5 release introduces a number of significant Java language enhancements: generics, typesafe enums, autoboxing, an enhanced "for" loop, a static import facility, and a general-purpose metadata facility. This talk gives an overview of the changes and helps you understand what all the funny new syntax means.Matt Raible - Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live
Developing Web Applications with Spring and Ajax
In this session, you will learn what Ajax is and how it isrevolutionizing the way thatweb applications are developed.
In a similar way, the Spring Frameworks is greatly simplifying the code that we write Java web applications with.
Spring's AOP and Transaction Frameworks
Aspect-Oriented Programming is a great way to implementcross-cutting concerns (i.e. caching,logging, security, transactions) into your applications. Transactions are an essential piece in enterprise applications for ensuring data integrity. This session covers two topics: Spring's AOP and Transactions Framework.
Test-Driven Development with Spring and Hibernate
One of the hardest parts about J2EE development is gettingstarted. There is an immense amount of open source tools for web app development. Making a decision on which technologies
to use can be tough--actually beginning to use them can be even more difficult.
Once you've decided to use Struts and Hibernate, how do you go about implementing them? If you look on the Hibernate site or the Struts site, you'll probably have a hard time
finding any information on integrating the two. What if you want to throw Spring into the mix? For developers, one of the best ways to learn is by viewing sample apps and tutorials that explain how to extend those applications. In order to learn (and remember) how to integrate open source technologies such as Hibernate, Spring, Struts, and Ant/XDoclet, Raible created AppFuse.
Neal Ford - Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques
This session discusses techniques and tools for debugging enterprise applications (without using System.out.println()!)Language Oriented Programming Part 1: Theory
This session shows how to use Java as the building block for domain-specific languages. It discusses the next revolution in programming: language-oriented programming and the nascent tools that support it.Regular Expressions in Java
Regular expressions should be an integral part of every developer?s toolbox, but most don?t realize what an important topic it is. Regular expressions have existed for decades, but many developers don't understand how to take full advantage of this powerful mechanism, either through command line tools and editors or in their development.SOA: Next Wave of Enterprise Development or Return of the Son of CORBA?
Is Service Oriented Architecture the next wave of distributed computing or just the same old crap in a shiny new package? This session provides an overview of what most people agree is the definition of SOA. I talk about SOA, ESB, CORBA, your MOM, and a bunch of other acronyms.Nick Lesiecki - Co-Author Mastering AspectJ and Java Tools for Extreme Programming
AOP Applied, lessons from a J2EE project
Aspect Oriented Programming offers enhanced modularity and cleaner separation of crosscutting concerns. That's all fine and well for architecture geeks. But can it help your project today? Has anyone applied it in the real world? The answer is "yes," and in this session, an AOP expert and early adopter will demonstrate how his team used aspect oriented programming to implement non-trivial business concerns. Along the way attendees will learn about advantages of AOP and understand some of the problems encountered adopting it.Enhance Design Patterns with AOP
Design patterns have long been part of the experienced developer's tool chest. However, design patterns can affect multiple classes and this makes them invasive and hard to (re)use. This presentation will discuss how AOP solves this problem by fundamentally transforming pattern implementation. The class will examine examples of various traditional design patterns (including some of the famous GoF patterns) and discuss the practical and design benefits of implementing them with aspect-oriented techniques. This session will be of interest to anyone who has struggled with design patterns. It is also the perfect session for a programmer interested non-trivial applications of AOP, or who wishes to see aspect-oriented design in action.Scott Davis - Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert
Guerrilla Web Techniques
Frameworks? We don't need no stinkin' web frameworks. OK, so maybe that's overstating the case. Web frameworks do plenty of good things, but sometimes they can also be golden handcuffs. Too many web developers fall into the trap of thinking, "If it can't be done by my web framework, then it simply can't be done."Real World Web Mapping
In this presentation, we'll explore the top four mapping sites and show you how to take advantage of their free services. MapQuest, Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, and MSN Virtual Earth all bring slightly different capabilities to the table. These sites allow you to create your own interactive maps with minimum effort and no previous mapping experience. They take care of hosting the mapping data and making it easy to manipulate -- all you have to do is bring a little bit of know-how to the party.Stuart Halloway - CEO of Relevance
Advanced Hibernate
Hibernate is easy to get started with, but can sometimes be hard to make efficient or secure. In fact, the default settings for Hibernate createapplications that will run slowly, cause unwanted round trips to the database, and may be more restrictive and/or permissive from a security standpointthan you would otherwise want.Cryptography for Programmers
For centuries people have used crypto to build (and break) secure systems. Computers have only raised the pitch of conflict, providing enormous cryptographic power at commodity prices. Most programmers do not write their own crypto libraries, instead relying on the services of an operating system or virtual machine. But even with all this support, building secure systems is a daunting task.Introduction to Java Reflection
Reflection is writing code that manipulates itself. Well-written reflective code automates a broad class of repetitive, error-prone programming tasks. Poorly-written reflective code obfuscates programs and destroys the benefits of the type system. We'll focus on the former.Java Platform Security and JAAS
The Java platform is built from the ground up with security in mind. This talk will introduce the security features of the J2SE, building quickly from the basic classes to realistic examples.Programming Java Concurrency
Java has always provided a model for concurrency and threads. With Java 1.5, this model received a major facelift. Learn how to use the new concurrency utilities to build responsive, scalable, and correct concurrent applications.Unit Testing Java with Jython and JRuby
JUnit is great. Jython and JRuby are even better. Unit testing libraries look the same everywhere, so why not use the one that lets you get your job done faster?Ted Neward - Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk
Effective Enterprise Architecture
Bring all of your enterprise Java questions to this open forum discussion hosted by the author of “Effective Enterprise Java”, Ted Neward.Passing Messages: A Flexible, Powerful and Extensible Communication Model
Over the last decade, focus in inter-process communication has centered on Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) and its object-oriented equivalents.The Fallacies of Enterprise Systems
There's a set of fallacies that every enterprise developer has fallen for at some point in their enterprise development lives, and unless they've come to realize it early enough, all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences in the long run.
Ben Galbraith
Book author, Ajaxian-at-Large, and Consultant
Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several Java-related books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, an experienced CTO and Java Architect, and is presently a consultant specializing in Java Swing and Ajax development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he’s been professionally coding in Java. Ben has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide at venues including JavaOne, The Ajax Experience, JavaPolis, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium series; he was the top-rated speaker at JavaOne 2006.
Brian Goetz
Author of Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for 20 years. He is the author of over 75 articles on software development, and his book, Java Concurrency In Practice, was published in May 2006 by Addison-Wesley. He serves on the JCP Expert Groups for JSRs 166 (concurrency utilities), 107 (caching), and 305 (annotations for safety analysis). He is a frequent presenter at JavaOne, OOPSLA, JavaPolis, SDWest, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposium Tour. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Bruce Tate
Author of 3 JavaOne best sellers
Bruce Tate is a father, kayaker, author and independent consultant in Austin, Tx. He worked for 13 years at IBM, in roles ranging from a database systems programmer to Java consultant. He left IBM to work for several startups in roles ranging from director to CTO. He now is building his own consulting practice, with emphasis on lightweight development in Java and Ruby, and persistence strategies. He is the author of nine books, including Rails Up and Running, From Java to Ruby, Beyond Java, the best selling Bitter series, the Jolt-winning Better, Faster, Lighter Java, and the Spring Developer's Notebook.
Clinton Begin
Creator of the iBATIS Data Mapper
Clinton Begin is a Senior Developer and Agile Mentor for ThoughtWorks Canada. He has been building enterprise applications for 8 years based on platforms such as Java and .NET. Clinton has extensive experience with agile methodologies, persistence frameworks and relational databases. He is the original creator of the iBATIS persistence framework, which he designed in response to the challenges faced by object oriented developers dealing with enterprise relational databases. Clinton is an experienced speaker, having delivered formal presentations, training seminars and bootcamps from San Francisco to New York City.
Dave Thomas
Pragmatic Programmer, Ruby, Rails, Process Improvement
Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software--accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Addison-Wesley) and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
David Geary
Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces and the Google Web Toolkit.
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and he's currently helping to define the next version of JSF on the JSF 2.0 EG.
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to Shale.
A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such as JavaOne and JavaPolis. David has taught at Java University and was twice voted a JavaOne rock star, for presentations in 2005 and 2007.
Jason Hunter
Author of Java Servlet Programming
Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's probably best known as the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media). He's also an Apache Member and as Apache's representative on the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement allowing open source Java. He's publisher of Servlets.com and XQuery.com, an original contributer to Apache Tomcat (and Apache Ant committer), the creator of the JDOM open source project, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and was recently appointed Sun Java Champion. In 2003, he received the Oracle Magazine Author of the Year award, and in both 2005 and 2006, the JavaOne Outstanding Talk award. His largest audience was 15,000 at a JavaOne conference keynote.
Matt Raible
Creator of AppFuse and author of Spring Live
Matt Raible resides in Denver, Colorado, where he runs Raible Designs, a consultancy that specializes in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. Matt has been surrounded by computers for most of his life, even though he grew up without electricity in the backwoods of Montana.
Matt is an author (Spring Live, Pro JSP), active Java open-source contributor, and blogger on raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project.
Matt's presentations can be downloaded from his website. Contact him if you can't find one of his presentations.
Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neal’s primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developers’ conferences worldwide.
Nick Lesiecki
Co-Author Mastering AspectJ and Java Tools for Extreme Programming
Nicholas Lesiecki is a recognized expert on AOP and agile development. In addition to coauthoring Mastering AspectJ (Wiley, 2003) and Java Tools For Extreme Programming (Wiley, 2001), Nick is a member of AspectMentor, a consortium of experts in aspect-oriented software development. He has spoken about applying AspectJ to testing, design patterns, and real-world business problems in such venues as SD West, OOPSLA, and AOSD. He currently serves Google as a Software Engineer and Programming Instructor.
Scott Davis
Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert
Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project).
Scott's books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work.
Scott is the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information website that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. He also writes a regular column for IBM DeveloperWorks -- Mastering Grails.
Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.
Stuart Halloway
CEO of Relevance
Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps enterprises adopt emerging best practices such as Ruby on Rails. Justin and Stuart founded the Streamlined Framework (www.streamlinedframework.org), and authored Rails for Java Developers. Stuart is also the author of Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.
Ted Neward
Enterprise, Virtual Machine and Language Wonk
Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, four video-game consoles, thousands of books (on programming and otherwise), and eight PCs.
Tom Marrs
Author of JBoss at Work and Principal Architect CIBER
Tom Marrs is a Principal Architect with CIBER, where he specializes in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), JavaEE, Open Source, and AJAX/Web 2.0. He designs and implements mission-critical business applications using the latest technologies, leads technical teams, and trains and mentors other developers.
Tom is the co-author of JBoss At Work: A Practical Guide (O?Reilly, 10/2005), speaks regularly at software conferences, and reviews best-selling technical books for major publishers. An active participant in the local technical community, Tom founded the Denver Open Source Users Group (http://www.denveropensource.org) and has served as President of the Denver Java Users Group (http://www.denverjug.org).
