VIK invites you to the next session of the study group java web applications.
This session will give you an introduction to the Spring framework.

Study group java web applications

Since april 2004 the study group java web applications organizes each month from september
until may sessions on java and related subjects.More information on past and future sessions
can be found at http://www.gertcuppens.org

Spring

The next session will be held on monday 29th of may '06 at the VIK-house in Wommelgem near Antwerp.
Gerrit Cap will talk about the Spring framework and the IOC design pattern to build web applications.
The architecture of an Enterprise system will be explained : Data access, business logic and the presentation layer.
Other subjects during this session are the support classes within the Spring framework which allow us
to build an Enterprise System. Furthermore we'll take a look at the integration of other frameworks like
Hibernate and Struts. Finally, Gerrit will give a preview on Aspect Oriented Programming.

Registration

If you're interested in this session, you can register at http://www.gertcuppens.org or http://www.vik.be,
or you can send an email to gertcuppens@skynet.be.
A route description to the VIK-house can be found at vik.be.
The session starts at 20.00 h.

JavaOne 2006 Conference

Next week, Sun and ACA-IT Solutions will host a Belgian gathering during JavaOne.

Open to all BeLux participants and BeJUG friends.

• Date : Wednesday 17/5
• Time : 20h30 till ...
• Location : Jester's Lounge @ The Argent Hotel

To register, just send us a mail

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This is really great for all attendees but also the Java developers who are less fortunate... enjoy the content

JavaONE has more or less started with the NetBeans Developers day. The room was packed with around 400 developers attending the pre-JavaOne kickoff event.
The different demo's we received during the keynote covered a subversion plugin, Spring mobile development environment, jackpot (analyzer tool) and 3 puzzles from Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter.

But the most news worthy session was the short talk of Suns new CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Richard Green.
They played a Q&A session and the first question Jonathan Schwartz asked "Will you open source Java?" and the answer,
after some jokes related to the no-nonsense question, Mr Green replied "Why Not?".... interesting

Probably we'll get more info on this potential move later during JavaOne.

NetBeans day

CRUD with NetBeans

Yesterday during the NetBeans developers day one of the eye-catching moments for me was the CRUD demonstration with Netbeans 5.5 on top of JEE5. By creating a datasource and selecting one table, Netbeans was intelligent enough to include the dependent tables and create a complete working JEE5 (JSF and EJB3) based application on the Sun defined EE design blueprints. Wauw!... so this is how Ruby On Rails looks like in JEE5, however this resulting EE application is standards based, extensible etc.

SOA fragmentation

Other nice demos was the SOA / JBI support within the NetBeans platform... now that we all agree on JEE the next layers of abstraction is clearly ESBs/SOAs and BPMs. However on those higher layers a consensus has not yet been met and unfortunately some technical and political powers are playing between Sun. BEA. Oracle. IBM and even SAP. In one camp we've the JBI folks (mainly Sun) and in the other camp we have the SCA (Service Component Architecture) supporters (IBM, BEA, Oracle and SAP). The good thing is that these BPM camps do have BPEL and JEE5 in common, but the technology for binding these services is clearly still an area where the cards are still being shuffled.

JavaPolis Speakers

The networking at JavaOne is always incredible, meeting other JUG leaders like Bruno Souza (Brasilian JUG), Klaasjan Tukker (NL-JUG, next year we'll synchronize the SpringOne conference dates) is always great and inspiring.

Of course talking to potential JavaPolis speakers is another agenda topic for visiting JavaOne. Craig McClanahan has confirmed, anticipating that ApacheCon is on another date than JavaPolis, he will be present this year at JavaPolis to demonstrate the JSF and EJB3 collaboration and some other interesting movement towards JBoss initiatives

Let's see what the first 2006 JavaOne keynote will bring... i'll keep you posted.

-Stepbhan

I.T. Works organizes a complete technology overview of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5.0 with Stephan Janssen, Kristof Van Becelaere, Johan Kumps and Bernard Tison. You will learn:

• What is new in JEE5
• How JavaServer Faces works and how it makes building Ajax-based applications easy
• What EJB 3.0 can do for you
• How JAX-WS can help you to build Web services and service-oriented applications

More information can be found at http://www.itworks.be/event.php?id=JAVAD33.

Participants will not only receive expert advice from experienced Java architects and developers, but will also receive a free copy of the JavaPolis 2005 DVD.

For more information, contact:

Patrick Van Renterghem
pvr@itworks.be
I.T. Works – http://www.itworks.be