Category: <span>Open Source Tools</span>

JRuby and Beyond: A Renaissance for the Java Platform

The Java platform is changing. No longer can a developer get by just knowing Java. There’s JRuby providing Ruby and Rails. There’s Groovy with Grails and other frameworks. Jython for Django. Scala with Lift. Rhino for JavaScript and frameworks like Phobos. And all of them provide not only access to …

Aspect-oriented programming – Five Aspects You’ve Never Heard About

Aspect-oriented programming has been around for quite some time now. Today, AOP is used in a wide range of applications to solve a wide variety of problems. However, some of those solutions are not very well-known to the general Java development community. In this session, Alef will explore several aspects …

GTUG – Using the Google Collections Library for Java (2 of 2)

The Java Collections Framework is indispensable to nearly every Java developer. Yet, you may often find yourself searching for a collection type, implementation, or utility that’s nowhere to be found. In this session, you’ll learn how the open-source Google Collections Library builds on the excellent foundation of java.util, to provide …