RSS feed for the Orlando JUG http://www.orlandojug.org In this session James Ward will do live demonstrations and write code to show how easy it is to build sexy web apps with Java, Mozilla Tamarin, and Flex. The session will cover the programming model, Java Remoting, Pub/Sub messaging & JMS integration, Data Synchronization, Hibernate integration, charting, cinematic experiences, and media integration. James' bio is "James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems." http://www.orlandojug.org Abstract Jython is an implementation of Python that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Jython compiles to bytecode, integrates nicely with the rest of the Java platform, and provides a wonderful environment for trying ideas out directly in its read-eval-print loop (REPL). With Jython, you can write simple scripts or large projects, all easily accessing the power of Java. In my talk, I will demo some of Jython's capabilities, but I will also address why I recently got involved in Jython development. Over the past few years, development on Jython has stalled in comparison to other dynamic languages for the JVM (Groovy, JRuby) and Python itself. But hope is not lost, we can make up ground by being smart. This means sharing ideas with other projects and good engineering, both qualities that we like about open source. Speaker's Bio Jim Baker has over 15 years of professional software development experience, focusing on business intelligence and high-performance web applications. He co-founded both Empact Solutions, raising $10M in VC financing, and BizLogix. He is now a consultant at bivio Software in Boulder, Colorado. Jim also leads the Front Range Pythoneers, a merry band of Python enthusiasts. He is a graduate of Winter Park High School, Harvard, and Brown. Jim was born and raised in Orlando. He learned to swim in Lake Virginia with Fleet Peeples and first programmed during a one-week session at the Orlando Science Center the summer after sixth grade. In 1986, he was part of the WPHS team that won the Florida High School Computer Programming Contest. He first started developing in Java in 1995. http://www.orlandojug.org The new build plan for Java developers integrating Open Source by Joshua Davis Abstract: This presentation gives a roadmap and examples for implementing "Continuous Integration" in an open source, component driven development environment. The topic also gives strategies for implementing applications that integrate different Open Source technologies within a cohesive framework and process. Speakers bio: Mr. Joshua Davis has 17 years experience in Information Technology, Database Administration, and Web Development while working as a Software Architect, Technical Manager, and software developer. Mr. Davis has held different roles over the years and is presently an Application Architect for Gentiva Health Services in Tampa, FL. Mr. Davis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Blackburn College in Carlinville, IL USA. Mr. Davis has taught numerous classes at Valencia Community College in Orlando, FL. In addition he has held seminars in Java and Object Technology for Florida Hospital, and the Tampa Java Users Group. http://www.orlandojug.org Anyone who has worked on non-trivial code knows how quickly code can "rot". In this session we will look at some practical tips on how the systems you design and write can get better over time, not worse. Some of the techniques we will look at are test driven design, the proper use of interfaces and abstract classes, package structure modularity, etc. In addition to discussing what needs to be done, tools and examples will be given to help make using the concepts easy and clear. Speaker Bio Jim Moore is a senior developer with Northrop Grumman Corp. He has over a decade of experience with delivering solutions at all layers of the software stack, from massive back-end enterprise systems for multi-national corporations, to basic infrastructure (eg, committer emeritus for the Apache log4j project), to rich desktop applications (eg, committer for the Spring Rich project). Intimately familiar with the constant problem of having too much work to do with not enough time, he has learned the hard way what makes systems resistant to change, and what makes them grow naturally. http://www.orlandojug.org Greetings Java Enthusiasts! This is a reminder that we'll have a great presentation Thu, 10/26 on Apache Geronimo. If you've ever wondered about Geronimo ad what's different about it, how to use it and what it's all about, then this meeting is for you! See http://www.orlandojug.org for details. w http://www.orlandojug.org The XX framework is a configurable, XML/XSL-centric implementation of the MVC development paradigm. The primary goal of the XX Framework is to handle typical application CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) with little or no Java programming. Instead of telling the application how to retrieve and how to display the data, we configure what to retrieve (through XML) and what to display (through XSLT). This generally leads to a simpler and more elegant solution that a purely procedural approach. Where the applications needs more than simple CRUD, additional business logic can be easily incorporated into the process. Some additional features of the framework are configurable data caching, thread pooling, and web service integration This talk will provide and introduction to the XX Framework. A sample application will be demonstrated to illustrate key framework concepts and methodology. Background material, such as the XSLT transformation language will also be addressed. Speaker Bio David Moskowitz is the president of Infoblazer LLC and is a developer and application architect with over 15 years experience in the computer industry. David has built applications in technologies ranging from Turbo Pascal and DOS through Java and XML. His recent interest and focus has been the design of multi-tier Internet applications using XML Web Services as a foundation. He has implemented this approach in numerous applications, ranging from large corporate clients to E-Commerce startups. For the past 6 years, David had been developing and refining his unique approach to application development involvement, involving the use of UML, XML, and Java. In 2006, David formalized this approach into the XX Framework which was released as an open source project. http://www.orlandojug.org Almost without exception, the most powerful technologies in the Java landscape, such as Spring, Hibernate, JSF, annotations, etc. are all heavily dependant on Java's Reflection API. Outside of the Java world, Ruby, PHP, Python and others are making HUGE waves because of their ability to let people develop dramatically faster than in Java -- but at the loss of Java's massive selection of libraries and proven scalability.
This session will look at the advantages/disadvantages to "dynamic" programming, how Java Reflection works, and ways to use the powerful flexibility of dynamic languages without giving up your proven Java environment. The focus will be on rapid development, integration of tools/technologies, and ease of responding to change. http://www.orlandojug.org J)ava GUI Gen)eration (JGuiGen) is an evolving system that is "code that writes code" JGuiGen will access any database you can connect to with JDBC and it creates a Data Dictionary from the SQL metadata. From this data dictionary the system writes a GUI to edit the SQL tables.
The current acronym for this type of application is CRUD - Create, Read, Update and Delete. The current version will create a running application with only four or five mouse clicks. The system writes the java code, compiles it and runs it. You can make changes to the data dictionary (which drives the code generation) and have JGuiGen rewrite the code, recompile it and run again. The generated application is internationalized, keyboard accessible, generates JUnit tests, is ready for JARs and JAWS, remembers user preferences, has a built in SQL Query Builder, built-in report generator, does frequency counts of any column, allows user to change Look and Feels, and much more.
This is an open source project so everyone is free to use JGuiGen in whatever way they see fit. We are working on a data replication between sites and generating applications involving multiple tables. http://www.orlandojug.org J)ava GUI Gen)eration (JGuiGen) is an evolving system that is "code that writes code" JGuiGen will access any database you can connect to with JDBC and it creates a Data Dictionary from the SQL metadata. From this data dictionary the system writes a GUI to edit the SQL tables.
The current acronym for this type of application is CRUD - Create, Read, Update and Delete. The current version will create a running application with only four or five mouse clicks. The system writes the java code, compiles it and runs it. You can make changes to the data dictionary (which drives the code generation) and have JGuiGen rewrite the code, recompile it and run again. The generated application is internationalized, keyboard accessible, generates JUnit tests, is ready for JARs and JAWS, remembers user preferences, has a built in SQL Query Builder, built-in report generator, does frequency counts of any column, allows user to change Look and Feels, and much more.
This is an open source project so everyone is free to use JGuiGen in whatever way they see fit. We are working on a data replication between sites and generating applications involving multiple tables. http://www.orlandojug.org What is mind mapping and how can it be applied to your knowledge capture? When learning Java, each branch of its classes, methods, operators and keywords seems like the tip of an iceberg with 80% below the surface. Mind mapping Java enables you to break apart those icebergs into manageable chunks and let’s you see both the surface and depths.
Part I will be a short tutorial on the FreeMind open source mind mapping software. The ease of use of the software in creating a map will be included. Part II will focus on the exploration of a mind map Fred created of the Java language with emphasis on certification knowledge. Mind mapping can be easily applied to any part of your work or personal knowledge capture from meeting notes, to a complex body of knowledge, to a Podcast from the swamp.
Bio: Fred Dearman
Fred is first and foremost a software developer. He has developed applications from outer space to inner space including rocket analysis, aircraft simulation, refinery blending, to oil drilling. Fred took a brief detour into IT, electronic publishing, and managing a million record physical asset data base. After taking a package, Fred re-activated his love for programming through studying C, C++ and Java. Fred has reentered the marketplace as a Sun Certified Java Programmer. Fred holds a BS in mathematics (1967) from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN. Fred received the Customer Special Recognition Award for Data Management from Unocal, Excellence of software implementation from Hays Data Management, was nominated for a creative information database application from Folio Views, and awarded the Saturn V roll of honor Engineer of the Month, by Boeing.
Sponsored by Signature Consulting, "We Put Our Name on the Line Top Quality I.T.Staffing Solutions". You can visit www.sigconsult.com for more information. http://www.orlandojug.org Object-to-service mapping (OSM), the generalization of object-to-relational mapping (ORM), occupies an important space as the software industry embraces service-oriented architecture (SOA). Composite applications, built by assembling services together, can be greatly simplified by the use of a service metadata repository (SMR) and a business-level object model. By leveraging the SMR's description of not only services' syntax and implementation technologies, but also each service method's behavior, an OSM-based product can eradicate the need for static orchestration and lay the foundation for a comprehensive, business-level object model that composite applications can use regardless of where and how the model's data is stored. http://www.orlandojug.org Object-to-service mapping (OSM), the generalization of object-to-relational mapping (ORM), occupies an important space as the software industry embraces service-oriented architecture (SOA). Composite applications, built by assembling services together, can be greatly simplified by the use of a service metadata repository (SMR) and a business-level object model. By leveraging the SMR's description of not only services' syntax and implementation technologies, but also each service method's behavior, an OSM-based product can eradicate the need for static orchestration and lay the foundation for a comprehensive, business-level object model that composite applications can use regardless of where and how the model's data is stored. http://www.orlandojug.org Vladimir Vivien has written to us to let us know that he has established a TampaJUG, they will have their fourth meeting in February. You can visit http://www.tampajug.org for additional details. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html The slides are at http://www.bosatsu.net/talks/AppliedAOP.pdf
The examples are at: http://www.bosatsu.net/talks/examples/AppliedAOP-Examples.zip
People should be able to download the zip file, download AspectJ and play with it outside of Ant. The build.xml file needs to be pointed to where AspectJ is installed. If they download AJDT within Eclipse, they can create a new AspectJ project and then import these projects.
AspectJ can be gotten here:http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/
http://www.bosatsu.net/talks/JmDNS.pdf
http://www.bosatsu.net/talks/JmDNS-Examples.zip
Brian Sletten has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with communication software, 3D simulation/visualization systems, Grid Computing and a Semantic Web-based document processing pipeline. He lives in Fairfax, VA where he runs his software consulting business, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. http://www.orlandojug.org Ruby on Rails seems to be the fastest growing web application framework on the Internet today*. It has had a huge effect on the way websites are being programmed both inside and outside the Ruby on Rails community. Is it a replacement for Java? No. Is it a great way to develop a certain class of web applications? Yes. Learn what sets this framework apart from all the others and what all the hype is about. It might change the way you think about languages, web applications, and programming. It may also make your life a lot easier. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html