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Open Source Libraries Seminar
Added by Sven Beauprez, last edited by Stephan Janssen on Sep 25, 2005  (view change)

Why reinvent the wheel when people are giving wheels away for free?

There are so many good free open source Java libraries, which can reduce development time/cost and increase the quality of the overall project. The biggest problems are where to find those libraries and to check if they are suitable for your particular project.
In this seminar, we want to present some of the more important libraries and based on this information, Java architects and developers in the audience will be able to evaluate if a library is useful for them, now or in the near future.

The presentations will only cover libraries, not frameworks. The difference is that a library is used by an application, by calling the API of the library (uni-directional flow; e.g. Log4J, Joda Time, XOM, etc?), and a framework is a generic design that needs to be extended by an application with business functionality (bi-directional flow; e.g. Struts, Spring, etc?).

We want our members to participate in this seminar! If you have experience with an interesting library from Apache Commons, OpenSymphony, Codehaus, etc. and want to do a presentation about it, you can go for a one-hour presentation for a larger library or for a 30-minute presentation for a smaller library. You can add your proposal below as a comment or mail it to us directly.


09:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 11:00 The most important libraries of Jakarta Commons (presentation ) by Tom Klaasen
11:00 - 12:00 JiBX (presentation ) by Christian Bonami
12:00 - 12:40 Sandwich Lunch
12:40 - 13:20 XStream (presentation ) by jo desmet
13:20 - 14:00 P6Spy (presentation ) by Davy Drees
14:00 - 14:40 Joda Time (presentation ) by Stephen Colebourne
14:40 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 17:00 Upcoming Log4J 1.3 & SLF4J (presentation ) by [Ceki Gülcü]


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  Jo Desmet   Christian Bonami   Tom Klaasen
 
       
  BeJUG Workshop Classroom   Stephen and Stephan   Ceki and Log4j
 
       
  Davy Drees   Sven and Davy setting up the talk   Stephan and his JODA time
 

We are very interested in P6Spy gui jar (from irongrid), but like Davy Drees already told in his presentation, the site is down !!!
Could Davy post the jar somewhere, please ??
Thx in advance
Ronny Coppens
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Posted by Chris at Sep 21, 2005 06:35 | Permalink

Davy feel free to attach the jar to this wiki page !

Posted by Stephan Janssen at Sep 21, 2005 09:33 | Permalink

Done. It's uploaded. So just double click the jar and it installs itself. If you want to monitor your application live, don't forget to add the following properties to your P6SPY properties:
module.ibeam=com.irongrid.ibeam.server.IBeamFactory
monitorport=2000
And include this jar together with the p6spy.jar on your classpath. First start the application, then the irontrack and connect to it.

Have fun monitoring your application!

Posted by Davy Drees at Sep 22, 2005 07:33 | Permalink

Check out the "Attachment" tab above to find the related jar file.

Posted by Stephan Janssen at Sep 22, 2005 09:25 | Permalink

Hi!

Is there a chance/a way to download the presentation files used during the seminar?
They contain many useful code samples impossible to write down during the presentation...

Thanks a lot!

Posted by Dimitri Hautot at Sep 23, 2005 10:54 | Permalink

I'll upload them this weekend, got some updates for some presentations which contained a few minor errors...

Posted by Sven Beauprez at Sep 23, 2005 11:33 | Permalink
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