Sat, 27 May 2006  During this talk you'll receive an update on WebWork. WebWork is a Java
web-application development framework. It is built specifically with
developer productivity and code simplicity in mind, providing robust
support for building reusable UI templates, such as form controls, UI
themes, internationalization, dynamic form parameter mapping to
JavaBeans, robust client and server side validation, and much more.
Jason Carreira has been developing and architecting J2EE applications for 5 years. For the last 4 years he's been at Notiva designing and building an enterprise financial software package from the ground up. In his spare time, he is a core developer of the XWork command pattern framework and WebWork 2.0 MVC web framework at OpenSymphony, and has recently released WebWork in Action for Manning Publications. |
Thu, 25 May 2006  JDK 5.0 is a huge step forward in developing concurrent Java classes and applications, providing concurrency building blocks for both novices and experts. This talk explores the new low-level concurrency utilities included in JDK 5.0, and examine their features and scalability. Prior to the release of JDK 5.0, the Java platform provided basic primitives for writing concurrent programs, but they were just that – primitive – and difficult to use properly. In addition to many new high-level concurrency utilities, such as semaphores, mutexes, barriers, thread pools, and thread-safe collections, JDK 5.0 also includes a number of JVM-level enhancements for concurrency, and a set of low-level concurrency utilities for developing highly scalable, nonblocking concurrent algorithms in Java. Even with built-in support for locking, it has not been practical to develop nonblocking concurrent algorithms in Java prior to JDK 5.0. With JVM support for accessing hardware-provided concurrency instructions (such as CAS) and the atomic variable classes provided in java.util.concurrent.atomic, it is now possible to develop highly scalable, wait-free, lock-free classes in Java. |
Sat, 6 May 2006  In addition to the Spring 2.0 Update conference talk, Dion Almaer asked some additional Spring related questions to the founder of the Spring framework Rod Johnson. During this interview following questions are discussed: How will the ApplicationContext look different with Spring 2.0 ? What's happening with Spring AOP and Web Flow in 2.0, and "Where is Spring RCP going ?" |
