Catch the following Birds of Feather Sessions at NFJS eXchange hosted by London User Groups: The following sessions are free to attend! Just register by clicking on the session below you would like to attend.

All BOF Sessions are on Thursday, August 30th, unless otherwise stated

Applying AMQP with Spring, Mule, Ruby, and Ajax -
8:00pm-8:45pm

Catch Alexis Richardson, co-founder of CohesiveFT and maker of "plug-and-run" virtual appliances for financial industry data standards, discuss AMQP, the new open business messaging protocol and how it applies within popular environments such as Spring, Mule, Ruby, and AJAX. Find out more about this BOF with the EJUG here...


JAVAWUG BOF 29 NFJS Exchange: Whither Java on the Web?
8:45pm-9:30pm
We have a set of panelists, experienced Java engineers, who are going to talk about their experiences of the Java development on the web and enterprise tier. This talk is a follow-on of the Web Framework Smackdown (BOF 24) that took place earlier this year. This time we will discuss the pros and cons of web framework and the general state-of-the-art. We encourage the audience to jump into the discussion at any time and ask any relevant questions.
Find out more about this BOF with the JAVAWUG here...


Gant as Ant and Maven replacement -
8:45pm-9:30pm

Groovy makes it very easy to create domain specific languages for working on the Java Platform. The idea of a builder is particularly useful for XML file construction (MarkupBuilder, StreamingMarkupBuilder, DOMBuilder), Swing interface construction (SwingBuilder), and scripting Ant tasks (AntBuilder). Gant is some Groovy infrastructure that adds support for easy use of AntBuilder as a replacement for Ant. Using Groovy rather than XML for describing builds using Ant tasks is a huge win. Moreover, there are plans to add to Gant so that it can replace Maven as well!

In this session we will look at why Groovy beats XML for specifying builds -- how adding imperative to declarative makes like easier. Find out more about this BOF with the Groovy and Grails User Group here...



Netbeans, Java and Ruby in a single IDE and
Rapid java prototyping using JRuby -
8:00pm-8:45pm

Learn how Netbeans Java IDE is one of the best tools for developing Ruby code around, how it works with JRuby and native Ruby, and how Java Developers can get the best of both worlds. Also, for java developers who want to try and have a play with ruby/jRuby, catch a demonstration on how ruby can be used to rapidly add a new feature to a simple Java application with a lot less work than modifying the java code. Find out more about this BOF with the London Ruby User Group here...






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