The NFJS New England Software Symposium was held September 19 - 21 in Boston. This is one of the larger NFJS shows and attendance at the show and my sessions was pretty good. It is always encouraging to see the same folks attend more than one talk. On my way to the show I also stopped by at the Connecticut Java User Group (more on that below).
I had five talks total over two days, more or less back-to-back. The first one was our flagship Java EE 7/8 talk. Currently the talk is basically about Java EE 7 but I'm slowly evolving the talk to transform it into a Java EE 8 talk as we move forward. The following is the slide deck for the talk:
The second talk I delivered was my Cargo Tracker/Java EE + DDD talk. This talk basically overviews DDD and describes how DDD maps to Java EE using code examples/demos from the Cargo Tracker Java EE Blue Prints project.
I finished off the day with my JavaScript + Java EE 7 talk titled "Using JavaScript/HTML5 Rich Clients with Java EE 7". This talk is basically about aligning EE 7 with the emerging JavaScript ecosystem (specifically AngularJS). The slide deck for the talk is here:
The demo application code is posted on GitHub. The code should be a helpful resource if this development model is something that interests you. Do let me know if you need help with it but the instructions should be fairly self-explanatory.
The first talk on the next day was my session titled "Using NoSQL with ~JPA, EclipseLink and Java EE". The talk covers an interesting gap that there is surprisingly little material on out there. The talk has three parts -- a birds-eye view of the NoSQL landscape, how to use NoSQL via a JPA centric facade using EclipseLink NoSQL, Hibernate OGM, DataNucleus, Kundera, Easy-Cassandra, etc and how to use NoSQL native APIs in Java EE via CDI. The slides for the talk are here:
The JPA based demo is available here, while the CDI based demo is available here. Both demos use MongoDB as the data store. Do let me know if you need help getting the demos up and running.
My last one for the show was the talk on JMS 2. Besides covering JMS 2, I've also started to roll in some of the possibilities for JMS 2.1. The slides for the talk are posted below:
Since Boston is such a short drive, I decided to skip the tedious flight for this show. One very nice thing this did was enable me to stop by and speak at the Connecticut Java User Group on the way there. The JUG is led by my friend and co-author for EJB 3 in Action Ryan Cuprak. I've spoken at the JUG a number of times over the years and it was good to be back. I did my JavaScript + Java EE talk there. The attendance was great and I got some great feedback. I hope to speak at the JUG again in the near future as time allows.
My next NFJS show is the Great Lakes Software Symposium in Chicago on November 14 - 16. Here's my tour schedule so far, I'll keep you up-to-date as the tour goes forward:
I hope you'll take this opportunity to get some updates on Java EE as well as the other useful content on the tour?
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