New England Software Symposium - Sep. 14 - 16, 2007

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the New England Software Symposium, Sep. 14 - 16, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

RAD JSF with Seam, Facelets, and Ajax4jsf, Part One
by David Geary

In this session, see how you can get Ruby On Rails-like productivity on the Java side of the house with this compelling combination of technologies.

Adding Behavior to Java Annotations
by John Heintz

Java's Annotations provide a way to add data to program elements. Annotations are used to configure containers, describe persistence configuration, set security roles, and are defined by nearly every recent JSR standard. This presentation explains the processing options available for consuming Annotations and demonstrates the techniques with live code demonstrations.

Behavior-driven development in Java
by Andrew Glover

Behavior-driven development, or BDD, has attracted a lot of attention a la RSpec in the Ruby community, but BDD's roots stem from JBehave, a Java based framework. In this session, we'll look at what BDD is and how it shifts the traditional testing vocabulary from being test-based to behavior-based.

New England Software Symposium - Sep. 14 - 16, 2007

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the New England Software Symposium, Sep. 14 - 16, 2007.

Catch these Featured Sessions

The Busy Java Developer?s Guide to java.util.concurrent
by Ted Neward

Java?s threading capabilities took a serious turn for the better with the release of Java5, thanks to the incorporation of the java.util.concurrent packages, a set of pre-built components for thread pooling and execution, synchronization, and more.

EJB3 Core Specification (JSR-220)
by Mark Richards

The new EJB 3 specification (JSR-220) offers some great improvements over the prior EJB specs in terms of development simplicity and new features. In this session we will discuss why EJB is still important, and explore in detail some of the new features of the core EJB 3 specification. Included in this session will be defining and accessing session beans, JTA transaction management, declarative security, and interceptors. For those of you who still like to code in XML, I will also discuss and show how we can use XML rather than annotations within EJB3. During the session I will demonstrate the new features of EJB 3 through interactive coding examples. Note: this session does not cover the new Java Persistence API (JPA) - that topic is covered in separate JPA sessions.

Metrics-driven Agile Development
by Neal Ford

Agile software development is a highly disciplined way to build software, and one of the side effects of this discipline is the ability to gather meaningful metrics. This session describes what makes agility perfectly suited to metrics gathering and what kinds of real-world metrics you can generate.