A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration. In a CyberDojo: the players work in small groups each group works at a single computer each group writes their code and their...

With Scala Improvement Proposal (SIP) 14, Scala's Futures will get a big upgrade with the new Future and Promise APIs. In this tutorial we will explore Futures and Promises using the new APIs and how they can be used to compose asynchronous dataflow - crea...

Anirvan's Progressive Java track will show how to use Spring Data Neo4j to build a Spring-based web application based on the graph database Neo4j. The session will begin with a short introduction into Spring Data Neo4j and follow that up by building a 'Use...

In the past, Java EE suffered from the legacy of bloated XML, superfluous code, and poor Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) support. Java EE 5 rectified several of these issues by introducing a simplified programming model, annotations and migrating to the Ja...

The goal of this session is the give participants a quick introduction into Java enterprise development without using the heavy weight tools and process that come with Spring & Java EE. The session will be a hands on test-driven journey through writing a r...

Neo4j is an esoteric and powerful member of the NOSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making Neo4j popular for managing complex data across many domains from finance to social, ...

We will explore REST and its implications on a resource-oriented environment that embraces it like NetKernel. We will look at what URI-addressability does for us and how we can leverage the open standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) to do amazin...

Jan Machacek will show why you should use the most appropriate language for your Java enterprise application. Discover why it is a really good idea to combine Java with another language. Jan's code will show just how easy it is to use Scala and Java in one...

Ok, that is a stretch. We can still develop in conventional Java, but what if the language bindings are part of the problem? What happens if we abstract the level of coupling between systems or even layers of a system? It sounds cool, but it must perform d...