November 2009 Meeting - JBoss RESTEasy - Will Bath
RPC based web services built on SOAP and the WS-* stack have been a
mainstay in the toolboxes of developers for many years. Recently
another approach known as REST has been gaining popularity and support
across computing languages especially in the realm of “agile” languages
such as Ruby on Rails and Grails. RESTEasy is a Java framework started
by Bill Burke as a fully JAX-RS compliant implementation offering both
client and server support. It features URL templating, query parameter
mapping, automatic marshalling and unmarshalling, and more. Put simply
it makes RESTful webservices Easy.
William Bath provided a brief
introduction of REST and then went into some demonstrations of how to
use RESTEasy in the development of services.
Note there was a extensive Q&A at the end of his talk, where
will did some on the spot coding, but we couldn’t hear some of the
questions so that didn’t make it onto the podcast, sorry.
Podcast: 6.3MB
Slides and code: 10.9MB
October 2009 Podcast - JSF 2.0 why bother? - Hrvoje
Hrvoje covered what JSF is and what you
need to develop JSF apps including the main components JSF apps are
made up of. Then he discussed integration with JEE 5 and 6 and what is
new in JSF 2.0.
So listen to it
Podcast: cjug-oct-2009-jsf.mp3 (16MB)
Slides: are here on google
August 2009 Meeting - Maven is the new black - Glen Smith
Maven is full of features, but often a little short on “getting your
head around it” material, so I’ll be giving a short 30 minute talk
which just takes you through the basics of the core stuff you need to
explore and gives you some demos of the benefits. On the list is a
thumbnail sketch of:
- Comparison with Ant
- Convention over configuration stuff
- Dependencies and Repos
- POMs, Plugins and the Build lifecycle
- Site Generation and Reporting
- IDE Support
Slides:
maven 2 quick start cjug (pdf)
Podcast:Maven is the new black by Glen Smith
April 2009 - Intro to Griffon - Peter McNeil
Griffon is like Grails/Rails for swing apps. It’s a framework that
uses convention over configuration, an MVC pattern and plugins… It’s
early stages yet, but it’s probably the most exciting thing to happen
to swing for a while (JavaFX not withstanding) Peter looked
at what Griffon is so far, do a demo of where it’s at and how it works.
Griffon Demo Code