JiBX is an open source XML data binding API for Java. JiBX is younger than most other APIs in this space (Castor XML, BEA XMLBeans, JAXB). JiBX's philosophy on data binding is that: [a] databinding should be fast, and [b] databinding frameworks should allow for the divergence and evolution of your codebase from its xml representation. JiBX excels on both counts and consequently is a practical tool for the purpose of data binding. In this session, Eitan will be covering all aspects of Dennis Sosnoski's JiBX framework.

Session Goals: To learn the JiBX API in detail. JiBX can considerably simplify the task of parsing XML content into business objects and generating XML representations of these business objects.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of XML, but not of any of the variety of standards that build upon that foundation. Basic understanding of the Java programming language.

Session Rating: Intermediate

Category: XML/Web Services

An exercise in refactoring, playing with Java 5 annotations, varargs, JUnit, and more (see detail description for more).

This talk is a little story. It begins, innocently enough, with a speaker's dilemma: how to give an effective talk on Hibernate? The speaker quickly realizes that to he's going to have to automate some of the associated configuration and setup code. There's an interesting refactoring hurdle along the way, whereby the author:

[a] dreams he could be writing the code in JavaScript [b] tries out the Spring Framework's medicine for Hibernate [c] ends up simply using JUnit [d] gets inspired and writes his own mechanism to resolve the situation [e] finally, looks towards the future with a sigh, and thinks "AOP"

An exercise in refactoring, playing with Java 5 annotations, varargs, JUnit, and more.

This talk covers the core of the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping framework by example; that is: in a hands-on manner.

What does this mean? Two things: 1. Rather than spending 1.5 hours going from slide to slide, passively covering various aspects of the Hibernate framework, you'll be actively building a sample application, modeling, persisting, querying information using Hibernate 3.1 2. Hibernate today is a mature and rich framework consisting of many features. Discussion of features outside of the Hibernate "Core" will be sacrificed for the sake of presenting Hibernate in an active, "by example" style.

No a-priori knowledge of Hibernate is assumed. We'll cover the basics of Hibernate v3.1, XML mappings, the Hibernate Query Language (HQL), the Criteria API, custom UserType's, Components, and more! (This talk does not discuss auxiliary topics such as the EJB 3 persistence API, Annotations, or integrating Hibernate in managed (J2EE) environments).

Join Eitan in this hands-on session on Naked Objects. This session uses the "learning by doing" approach to learning an API or framework. Naked Objects is a powerful tool that can give you a significant advantage in the development of business systems. It gives you the ability to prototype a software application so quickly that it can be performed during information gathering phases of a project. It gives you the power to codevelop the core business model of your application with a non-developer business expert at your side. No prerequisite knowledge of Naked Objects is required.

Session Goals: To learn to write software applications (possibly system prototypes) using the NakedObjects framework. Developing applications that use NakedObjects requires knowledge of the conventions and contract of this framework. NakedObjects is a fairly radical development in the domain of business software application development. Awareness of the concepts and implications of expressive systems is an important secondary goal.

Prerequisites: Basic understanding of the Java programming language and of object-oriented programming and design. Familiarity in the domain of business application software development.

Session Rating: Intermediate

Category: Architecture