Archive for 'Java'

W-JAX 2009: Why the next five years will be about languages

babelDisclaimer: This entry has been written while listening to the talk. Please forgive me any typographical or grammatical errors resulting from this approach.

Next is the keynote by Ted Neward about language evolution. Since I am myself a strong believer in DSLs I’m looking forward to this talk.


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W-JAX 2009: Opening by Sebastian Meyen

w-jaxDisclaimer: This entry has been written while listening to the talk. Please forgive me any typographical or grammatical errors resulting from this approach.

Sebastian will open the conference with an overview of hot topics and things to come. Let’s get ready to rumble…


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It’s W-JAX time… and time for a summary…

w-jaxW-JAX 2009 starts for me today… since the past couple of weeks have been extremely busy (how could it be otherwise 😉 this is a good time to catch up with the state of affairs and update the blog once more. Here we go…


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The next week in review…

energyWow, the next week really is going to be quite a fun week. A training, o and two days of holiday for the largest gaming show in the world. And some JADE programming mixed in. I’m gonna love it.
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VMWare going to acquire SpringSource for $420 million

cloudDespite being the head of our SpringSource Premier Systems Integrator team at QuinScape this one took me by surprise. It was a well-guarded secret as far as we are concerned and no information leaked previously. And I failed to see the signs although they were there:


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(German) Java Code Camp: Spring

java-code-campCome to Cologne – it’s going to be fun! :-). Eberhard and I will be talking about various Spring related topics and and give the full course from the very basics (what is Spring and why is it good?) to the most advanced topics (how do the distributed administration of a large SpringSource tc server cluster work with some simple magic?). I’m looking forward to the code camp since it will be a great opportunity to do some great coding together. And the evening events also are goinf to be alot of fun!

Short (german) article about SpringSource Tool Suite published

SpringHere we go. Just a short memo bout the new open source status of SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Spring Roo: Short german overview available

Occasionally I write articles… one more just went online. It’s a short German opinionated abstract about Spring Roo.

Spring Roo – The missing glue?

rooWhile I initially was somewhat neutral about the latest offering from Spring – Spring Roo – my opinion is changing. While I’m still not overly fond of the project speedup features (IMHO that belongs into the IDE and not into a separate platform – and I don’t want to see a console for that) I am extremely impressed by the work Ben Alex seems to have done on the internal models underlying Roo.


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SpringOne 2009: Grails for Spring Developers

GrailsDisclaimer: This entry has been written while listening to the talk. Please forgive me any typographical or grammatical errors resulting from this approach.

Last day ofSpringOne 2009 – Graeme Roche will talk about how the Grails framework leverages Spring in order to increase developer productivity. Graeme is the founder of the Grails project and Spring lead for Grails.


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