Great Lakes Software Symposium - Apr. 18 - 20, 2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Great Lakes Software Symposium, Apr. 18 - 20, 2008.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Architecture and Agility Are Not Mutually Exclusive
by David Hussman

Being agile does not mean living life one iteration at a time. Agile projects without a long view can run into the common design problems of the past. Planning iteration by iteration is often foolish and feeds the myth that agile projects do not think beyond a few weeks. Successful agile projects plan within iterations and across iterations. The later planning is called release planning and it is the forum where agility first engages architecture and other cross cutting concerns.

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, guiding architecture principles of SOA, and attempt to answer the following question: What is and isn't SOA?

The Java Memory Model
by Brian Goetz

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.

Great Lakes Software Symposium - Apr. 18 - 20, 2008

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:00:00 CST

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Great Lakes Software Symposium, Apr. 18 - 20, 2008.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Architecture and Agility Are Not Mutually Exclusive
by David Hussman

Spring 2.5 - Spring without XML
by Ken Sipe

Spring 2.5 is brand spanking new, with a number of fantastic features. With growth of large and complex Spring applications which struggle with xml manageability and with the added pressure of Guice and SEAM there is a push for less XML, with solution leaning towards annotations. Spring 2.5 adds to the toolset provided in Spring 2.0 to provide a development environment where XML is greatly reduced... or eliminated if you so choose.

REST - Live!
by Brian Sletten

You've read the articles, the books, the Ph.D. thesis and all of the meta-commentary about building RESTful APIs, but you're still not sure where to begin. This is an interactive session with almost no slides. You should come prepared to pair program with me and everyone else in the room. We will tackle any reasonable suggestions of what might benefit from a RESTful interface. We will generate working code and explore the iterative process by which good REST-oriented APIs are created. Bring your ideas for open source projects that we might want to expose through a resource-oriented model.