Gateway Software Symposium - Mar. 07 - 09, 2008

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:00:00 CST

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Gateway Software Symposium, Mar. 07 - 09, 2008.

Catch these Featured Sessions

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.

SOA Unplugged
by Mark Richards

Awareness about Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has grown significantly in the past several years. Unfortunately, along with that growth has come a significant amount of confusion about what SOA really is. SOA has become such a ubiquitous buzzword that it now has many faces and means different things to different people. CIO's, managers, vendors, business users, architects, and developers all see SOA differently which creates a sea of confusion about what is and isn't SOA. In this highly interactive and thought provoking session we will look beyond the hype and marketure of SOA and explore SOA from an architecture and development point of view - in other words, SOA as an architecture pattern. During this session we will look at SOA use cases, services, integration, implementation, and the guiding architecture principles behind this seemingly confusing buzzword.

RESTlet for the Weary
by Brian Sletten

If you have started to take a look at REST as way of exposing web services or managing information spaces, you may be frustrated by the support offered by legacy containers. There is no direct support for REST concepts in the J2EE specs (yet). XML-based configurations are so 1990's. Come learn about Restlets, a little API that has caught the attention of many in the RESTafarian community.

Gateway Software Symposium - Mar. 07 - 09, 2008

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:00:00 CST

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Gateway Software Symposium, Mar. 07 - 09, 2008.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Java Concurrency Idioms
by Alex Miller

This presentation will look at the many new additions in Java 5 and 6 for concurrent programming such as Atomics, Locks, synchronizers, and concurrent collections. In particular, we will be looking at common concurrency idioms around locking and access to shared state, thread coordination, thread pooling, and work execution. Each of these topics will be presented with code examples demonstrating common idioms and the usage of these new concurrency primitives.

Java Message Service: its lean and mean and it works!
by Richard Monson-Haefel

The Java Message Service (JMS) is a Java API for asynchronous enterprise messaging. JMS defines an API that allows enterprise applications to securely exchange guaranteed messages directly, or through an Enterprise Service Bus. Richard Monson-Haefel, author of Java Message Service (O'Reilly), will teach you about JMS - a technology that is endless adaptable for loose coupled systems and can even be used for Web services, but its much more powerful. JMS actually works! In this session you'll learn why JMS is an excellent solution and when to use it.

Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way
by Jeff Brown

Grails is a full stack MVC framework for building web applications for the Java platform. Grails makes web application development both fun and easy. This session covers all of the fundamentals of building web applications with Grails.