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J-Fall 2013 Report

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1 day, 32 sessions, 4 hands-on lab, 1200 developers, 41 speakers = AWESOME J-Fall 2013! There probably was no better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this conference.

This was my third J-Fall (2009 and 2011) and the numer of attendees and overall quality of this conference has improved significantly every time.

The conference started for me at Schiphol where I met Sharat Chander from Oracle. The long ride from the airport to Nijkerk gave us lot of time to catch up with my recent ex-colleague. The speakers’ dinner in the evening was very enjoyable and helped with fighting the jetlag.

The very first session was a talk by Jaap ter Woerds on Building scalable network applications with Netty. The talk gave a quick introduction to Netty and showed a sample application built using it. The slides are available. You can always reach out directly to the speaker or to Norman Maurer – core developer of @netty_project.

My very first talk of the conference turned out to be a replacement talk because of a “missing speaker”. The slides are available:


Getting Started with WebSockets and Server-Sent Events from Arun Gupta

Twitter feedback seems to indicate that ~60 attendees enjoyed the talk. This session is recorded and should be available on parleys.

The second talk was about code-drive introduction to Java EE 7. This talk used Java EE 7 Samples and explained the new/major improvements to the platform. Here are the specific samples explained in the talk:

  • websocket/whiteboard
  • batch/chunk-csv-database
  • json/streaming-generate
  • concurrency/managedexecutor
  • jms/send-receive
  • jaxrs/jaxrs-client
  • cdi/bean-discovery-annotated

All of these samples were created using GlassFish and work on WildFly Beta2 Snapshot (build your self as explained in Tech Tip #1) as well. This session should be available on parleys as well.

The afternoon was packed with the Java EE 7 hands-on lab using NetBeans/GlassFish to about 25 attendees. The latest lab content is always available at github.com/arun-gupta/javaee7-hol. A WildFly version of this lab will is already being worked upon.

And here is my twitter list of the people I met: @BertBertman, @BertBreeman, @Sharat_Chander, @javafxpert, @steveonjava, @hansolo_, @pbakker, @sander_mak, @lucasjellema, @reginatb38, @momatwork, @Bogaart, @tgrall, @JavaWithMarcus, …

Check out some pics …

   
 
 

And the complete album at:

JFall, Transylvania JUG, and Devoxx

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Barely back from an exciting trip to Luxembourg JUG and JAX London, and now heading back to Europe again!

This time to JFall, Transylvania JUG, and Devoxx!

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JFall is an annual conference organized by Netherlands JUG (NLJUG). The conference is free for the JUG members after they’ve paid annual subscription. At about 1000+ attendees  (limited by the venue) the conference is a big hit for the local attendees.

I’ll be giving two sessions at JFall 2013 (Nov 6):

  • Java EE 7 Hands-on Lab
  • Code-driven introduction to Java EE 7

I seem to have an odd year cadence with JFall. My first two trips in 2009 and 2011 were with Oracle, and now this year as Red Hat.

This is then followed by a visit to Transylvania JUG in Romania (Nov 7).

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Looking forward to meet Romanian developers and hopefully sneak a visit to Dracula Castle 😉

And concluding this trip with one of the finest Java conferences:

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  • Java EE 7: What’s New in the Java EE Platform (11/11)
  • Java EE 7 Hands-on Lab (11/13)
  • Java EE 7’s Java API for WebSocket (11/14)

Read more about why Devoxx is pretty unique. Even though other conferences have taken cues from here over the years but there are still quite a few items that make Devoxx what it is!

Looking forward to meet friends and make new friends!

Feel free to ask me any thing about WildFly or suggest a Tech Tip that needs to be written.

Where will I see you ?