Miles to go …

Do you know what is common between London Underground and Java EE 6 ?

They got together at JAX London 2011 in a slides-free, NetBeans-driven, interactive Java EE 6 hackathon. I’ve done similar NetBeans and/or Eclipse-driven sessions at other conferences as well but this is the most comprehensive I’ve ever done and also covered the widest range of Java EE 6 technologies as well. Adam Bien is certainly well known to do these kind of sessions all around the world and now I can certainly feel why he feels excited about doing them again and again

The hackathon started a little late because of the late food arrival but went on for 1.5 hrs, instead of the scheduled 1 hr and way beyond 10pm. We built an application that allowed to store the duration between any two tube stations. The sample application demonstrated the usage of @Entity, @javax.validation.constraints.*, @Inject, @Stateless, @Singleton, @Schedule, CDI Events, @Path, @Interceptor, @Model, and much more. The most interesting part certainly was the interactive nature of the audience and discussing the different options.

 Anyway, you can start with the following DDL:

create table underground (
   id integer not null generated always as identity,
   fromStation varchar(20) not null,
   toStation varchar(20) not null,
   duration varchar(5) not null,
   primary key(id)
);

for creating your database, download the sample code here built during the session, open it in NetBeans 7.0 RC1, run it on GlassFish. And then get a feel for all the features yourself!

Are you interested in having a similar hackathon at your conference / event / JUG ?

A comprehensive Java EE 6 tooling screencast using NetBeans is available at screencast #37 and using Eclipse is available at screencast #36.

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