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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Speaker Pictures
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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
 

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