After years of Struts/JSP being the default choice for Java web applications, Seam together with JavaServer Faces and Facelets has become an excellent alternative. Seam is an application framework for Java Enterprise Edition which introduces the notion of declarative, contextual application state management.
In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programming model and its tight integration with other frameworks such as Hibernate, jBPM and RichFaces. In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the many competing frameworks, what it was like getting started with Seam, what its learning curve is like, and what their practical experiences with Seam has been on two commercial projects during the last year.
Pete Muir is a core developer on JBoss Seam, an application framework for enterprise Java, and on JBoss RichFaces, a rich component library for JSF.
He is currently employeed by Red Hat Inc. working on JBoss open source projects.
Seam in Action - Part 2— In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the many competing frameworks, what it was like getting started with Seam, what its learning curve is like, and what their practical experiences with Seam has been on two commercial projects during the last year.
Where will tomorrow's enterprise innovation come from— In this keynote, Rod Johnson will consider where tomorrow's innovation will come from in enterprise Java. How will the role of the JCP change? Will other standards bodies play a role? Will end users be more empowered-and how can you help to shape the future? How will the continued rise of open source affect the platform-especially with Sun's recent embrace of open source, and the emergence of a significant and sustainable open source industry?
Large scale development of enterprise java solutions— You will get some insights into the development process at the NetWeaver Product Technology Unit and SAP applications build on top of the NetWeaver platform. We will share how we build large scale enterprise java solutions at SAP.
Java persistence - a Heretic's demonstration— The Java world is a thriving 'think tank' where the future of computing is created, a place of open-minded exploration. Nevertheless, there are taboos that the Java world seems reluctant to address. Weakly typed languages was one that has been confronted only recently, with JSR223. Object-oriented databases attract a lot of sympathy and precious little support. Everything that would stray too far away from the 'canon' of Java and JavaEE is, in reality, often considered with suspicion.
Guice— Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test and reuse in other contexts.
