This video shows how to connect Java apps to the cloud using jclouds, an open-source framework that makes it possible to write cloud-portable apps for the likes of Amazon, VMWare, Azure, and Rackspace. Video producer: The San Francisco Java User Group
Maven 3.0 has undergone major refactorings, and correspondingly, a battery of backwards compatibility tests to ensure a smooth transition from Maven 2.0. These refactorings prepare Maven for the next several years of development, including the separation of the POM file language from from the POM in-memory processor, which is already …
This video from the Devoxx 2010 conference discusses the future of Java, the language, platform, eco-system, community with input from Oracle, Google, SpringSource, a JCP member, a JUG leader and functional language expert. The discussion panel will be moderated by our JavaPosse friends: Dick Wall and Joe Nuxoll.
Much has been made of having more expressive languages for the JVM. The recent explosion of interest in alternative JVM languages has shown there’s a need for something better. But have Scala, Groovy, Fantom achieved this goal? We’ll look at Mirah, which attempts to implement Ruby’s apparent features directly atop …
This talk will describe various Java coding mistakes made by experienced developers in production code. You’ll learn things to watch out for, and various techniques for finding the mistakes. In practice, code contains lots of mistakes that don’t cause serious problems in practice, so I’ll suggest ways to focus on …
Whether you need to store non-SQL key/value pairs, SQL data, XML, Java Collections or POJO-like application objects, Berkeley DB is the first data storage library you should think of – it’s a natural for Java application developers.
