Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin - Jun. 29 - Jul. 01, 2007

Tue, 08 May 2007 09:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin, Jun. 29 - Jul. 01, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Ajax Design and Architecture
by Glenn Vanderburg

Ajax applications have unique design and architectural challenges and opportunities. This presentation will show you how to take advantage of the Ajax's strengths, and work around its quirks.

The Busy Java Developer's Guide to ClassLoaders
by Ted Neward

If you've ever gotten a ClassCastException and just knew the runtime was wrong about it, or found yourself copying .jar files all over your production server just to get your code to run, then you probably find the Java ClassLoader mechanism to be deep, dark, mysterious, and incomprehensible. Take a deep breath, and relax--ClassLoaders aren't as bad as they seem at first, once you understand a few basic rules regarding their operation, and have a bit more tools in your belt to diagnose ClassLoader problems. And once you've got that, and hear about ClassLoaders' ability to run multiple versions of the same code at the same time, and to provide isolation barriers inside your application, or even compile code on the fly from source form, you might just find that you like ClassLoaders after all... maybe.

What's New in Java 6
by Jason Hunter

The Java 6 (Mustang) release should make your life easier, for a change. It doesn't alter the core language like Java 5 did. It doesn't pack in so many sub-JSRs that you'll be overwhelmed by the amount you have to learn. Instead Java 6 adds several handy things that honestly should have been added before. Among the improvements we'll cover in this fast-paced class: * A new Console class * A real Compiler API * A GIF writer * Pluggable Locale data * Access to disk partition size data * Array reallocation * Low-level floating point functions * Reflective access to parameter names * Access to network interface details * Pluggable annotation processing * Improved class file format * Streaming XML with StAX * A new Scripting interface

Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin - Jun. 29 - Jul. 01, 2007

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin, Jun. 29 - Jul. 01, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Rails for Java Programmers
by Bruce Tate

The productivity of Ruby on Rails cannot be denied, but the explosion of Ruby on Rails left many developers, with hard commitments to Java deployment platforms, out in the cold. The continued evolution of JRuby can change that. JRuby is a Ruby implementation on the Java virtual machine. And yes, it runs Rails. In this session, you will learn Rails as it was meant to be learned, within the context of building a live site, from scratch.

Implementing SOA
by Neal Ford

This talk avoids SOA hype and gets to the meat of the matter: how do you implement a Service-Oriented Architecture, what are the technological pitfalls, how do you test it, and what traps should you avoid. No marketecture: just implementation details.

Developing Applications Using in Spring 2.0
by Ryan Breidenbach

In 2006, Spring 2.0 was release and Spring became ubiquitous in the enterprise Java space. So if you haven't taken a peek at Spring yet, what are you waiting for?!? If the answer is "This session," you have come to the right place. This session will familiarize you with the benefits Spring provides and why they have made the framework so successful. In addition, we will focus on the efforts that went into Spring 2.0 to make these benefits much more developer friendly. By the end of this session, you should have a grasp of how Spring 2.0 simplifies the utilization of Spring's core features such as bean wiring, AOP, and the simplification of using enterprise Java. If your head is not spinning too much.