Sessions at Jfokus 2012 with link

Tuesday 14th February 2012

• Maven vs Gradle, On your marks, get set, go!

  by Hardy Ferentschik

  Ant, Maven, Gradle, Buildr - the choice of built systems for Java based systems is manifold and only discussions about coding styles are getting more heated than discussion on which built system is superior. In this talk we are looking at two built system - the well established veteran Maven against the Groovy based newcomer Gradle. Where are the similarities between these two built systems and what differentiates them? Why and when would you chose one over the other? Both built systems are introduced by examples and the Open Source project Hibernate is used as a case study for a migration from Maven to Gradle. We will learn why this migration took place and what the lessons learned were.

  • Gradle
  • Maven

  At 1:00pm to 1:50pm, Tuesday 14th February

  Coverage slide deck link

• Dart Language and Modern Web Apps

  by David Chandler

  Modern Web apps are rich, snappy, and work offline and mobile, too. In this talk, we'll look at the frameworks and HTML5 features that make these possible and introduce Dart, a new language for structured Web programming. In particular, we'll take a look at the motivation for Dart, language syntax and features, the Dart Editor, using the Dart JS compiler, and improvements to the DOM. We'll take a look at several sample apps built with Dart and see how easy it is to use Dart with HTML5+CSS to create rich client applications.

  • Dart
  • HTML5

  At 2:00pm to 2:50pm, Tuesday 14th February

  Coverage liveblog link

• jHome: Having Fun with Home Automation and Java

  by Vinicius Senger and Yara M H Senger

  jHome is complete Java EE 6 API for home automation. With jHome you can control wall jackets, lamps, RGB LEDs, gates and much more. The reference implementation application is using EJB's, REST, WebService, JMS, JSF and jQuery to show how you can use Java EE 6 in a totally different application context. The proposed hardware is open-source, so you do it your self. During the talk we will be showing nice and funny demos:

  - Controlling lamps;

  - Color RGB led stripe;

  - Controlling via Twitter;

  - Feed a web page with a temperature sensors. We also will be showing the software architecture and some pieces of interesting code.

  • Home Automation
  • Java

  At 5:00pm to 5:50pm, Tuesday 14th February

  Coverage link slide deck