Northern Virginia Software Symposium - Apr. 25 - 27, 2008

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:00:00 CDT

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Northern Virginia Software Symposium, Apr. 25 - 27, 2008.

Catch these Featured Sessions

JSF 2.0 Preview
by Kito Mann

JavaServer Faces, the standard Java web development framework, has gained quite a few fans and detractors over the past few years. Regardless of the camp, most agree that the framework can improve. JSF 2.0, currently under development through the Java Community Process, aims to be a dramatic leap forward for the framework.

Transaction Design Patterns
by Mark Richards

Most web-based applications rely solely on the database to manage transactions, thereby freeing the developer from having to worry about transaction management. While this works in some circumstances, there are times when the use of transactions is vital to the integrity and operations of an application and its corresponding data. In this session I will demonstrate through real-world coding examples why transactions are such a critical part of the application development process. I will review the basics of both programmatic and declarative transactions, then introduce three transaction design patterns and explain when they should be applied, how to use them, and what problems they solve. By the end of this session you will see that by using transaction design patterns you can build an effective transaction management strategy for your application with very little effort.

Test Driven Design
by Neal Ford

Most developers think that "TDD" stands for Test-driven Development. But it really should stand for "Test-driven Design". Rigorously using TDD makes your code much better in multiple ways.

Northern Virginia Software Symposium - Apr. 25 - 27, 2008

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:00:00 CST

No Fluff Just Stuff is pleased to announce the Northern Virginia Software Symposium, Apr. 25 - 27, 2008.

Catch these Featured Sessions

Test Driven Design
by Neal Ford

Most developers think that "TDD" stands for Test-driven Development. But it really should stand for "Test-driven Design". Rigorously using TDD makes your code much better in multiple ways.

A Thorough Introduction To Groovy
by Jeff Brown

Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java platform. The language and its libraries bring many things to the table to ease the process of building applications for the Java platform. This session provides a detailed run through Groovy with lots of code samples to drive home the power of the language.

Configuring Spring with Annotations
by Mark Fisher

In this session, we will take a deep-dive into annotation-based dependency injection with Spring 2.5. You will learn how to combine annotation and XML formats, how to customize component scanning, and how to leverage Java 6 annotations within a Spring application. Since there is no "one size fits all" solution to application configuration, we will wrap up the discussion with general guidelines to consider when employing this approach.