Free Community Events
To help celebrate the first ever JAXconf in the US, we are offering an even greater breadth of content through our free community events!
We’ve enlisted the help of some industry friends to bring you CI Circus and Cloud Jam.
Registration is open to everyone so if you know Java fans who've missed out on the conference, we'd still love to see them at the Community events!
Places are free but limited, so book your place now to avoid disappointment! More details below.
Cloud Jam
Cloud is a hot topic in the Java world – but what's really behind the hype? In this special Community Night event, we look at the reality of cloud computing today, and the different approaches taken by the current major players in the cloud: Amazon, Google, JBoss, SpringSource, and more! This mix of lightning demos and interactive hacking session will give attendees the chance to experience what it really means to bring a complex open source project to the cloud. This hacking night is open to both JAXconf attendees and non-attendees, so be sure to tell your friends! And remember to bring your laptop for this hand's-on cloud experience!
After a warm welcome by Cloud Host Tobias Kunze-Briseño, you will see lightning demos on:
- Windows Azure
- CloudBees
- VMware's VMforce
- Google App Engine
- Red Hat's OpenShift
Right after that get involved in the free Cloud Jam Hacking Night!
CI Circus
On Tuesday JAXconf is hosting a free afternoon Jenkins & Gradle Hackathon, hosted by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, and Ken Sipe, CTO of Gradleware. Bring your laptops and get involved – this is a unique opportunity to code collaboratively with your peers and industry experts. Places are limited, so sign-up now!
As well as the cool Jenkins & Gradle hackathon, at Tuesday nights CI Circus you can hear a range of talks and case studies covering hot CI topics in the Java Ecosystem. This evening programme is open to the entire community – so even if you missed out on JAXconf, be sure to come along to this exciting Community Event! Registration is free.
Talks at CI Circus:
Gradle Demo: Reduce your CI build times!
Ken Sipe (Gradleware)
19:00-19:30 p.m.
Feedback is a core part of being agile... and the speed and richness of feedback is the true measure of agility. This demo based session will show how Gradle is a revolutionary build system helping projects and companies reduce their CI build times.
You will find how easy you can integrate Gradle with existing environments - such as Maven, Ant, Eclipse and Sonar. Additionally, this session will also provide you with our high level view on evolution of enterprise software automation.
Jenkins component integration techniques
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
19:30-20:00 p.m.
In this talk, I'll discuss several integration techniques I've used in large scale projects, which involves independent teams working closely to build dependent components that need to work together. While details of the environment would be likely different from one team to another, the essence of the idea should have broad applicability.
Netflix in the cloud
Carl Quinn (Netflix)
20:00-20:30 p.m.
Netflix has moved its production services from being a single monolithic web app in a data center, to being a distributed SoA system running in the Amazon cloud in a little over a year. This session explains how our build, release and deployment automation made this all possible. It covers our use of Jenkins, Artifactory, Ant and Ivy for building, and then follows the artifacts out to the cloud where they get baked and deployed. Some of the cool new technologies that we are investigating will also be explored.
Gradle Techniques
Tim Berglund (August Technology Group, LLC), Matthew McCullough (Ambient Ideas, LLC)
20:30-21:00 p.m.
Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund, authors of the Gradle book series from O'Reilly, will discuss the strategic techniques, speed improvements, and build composition approaches that Gradle brings to the world of JVM languages and automation pipelines.
We'll offer a unique diagram-based look at the techniques employed by Gradle. These include self-install of the tooling, hashing of the input file sets, parallel test execution, and flexibility for small enhancements to an otherwise convention driven build system. We'll conclude with ample time for Q&A on what Gradle means to developers currently using Ant or Maven and how they could make intelligent and progressive migrations to this new build ecosystem.
ALM Afternoon
The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) afternoon at the JAX Conference focuses on the areas of software development that are critical to the success of any application's creation.
From requirement and defect management, source code management, build management, continuous integration, testing, and development tooling, this track focuses on the the nuts and bolts of software technology creation.
Over the past 3-5 years, the perception of ALM as a bloated, heavyweight, unwieldy and unfriendly monolithic technology stack is slowly lifting as ALM is going through significant amounts of change. Agile, the cloud, and open source have gone from catchy buzzwords to mainstream considerations that are driving these changes.
This track will focus on these trends and what these changes to ALM mean to development organizations.
Full session details to be published soon!
There are 50 free tickets available for the ALM Afternoon at JAXconf, with tickets allocated on a first come, first served basis.
For more information, contact Mark Hazell markh[at]jaxconf.com
JBoss Day
JAXconf will hold a special JBoss Day on Tuesday June 21.
The JBoss Day will commence with an afternoon of sessions focussed on JBoss technologies, including JBoss AS7 and a look at the mobile web ecosystem from a Java developer perspective. Leading the charge will be Dan Allen and Jay Balunas.
We continue into the evening with JBoss Night - An evening with Drools
Afternoon sessions:
- Jay Balunas - The Mobile Web Revealed For The Java Developer
- Dan Allen - 7 reasons to love JBoss AS 7
Evening sessions:
- Tiho (Tihomir) Surdilovic - JBoss Drools and Drools Fusion (CEP): Making Business Rules react to RTE (Real-time events)
- Followed by a Bring your own laptop lab - Apply JBoss Drools and CEP to your application.
This lab will provide hands on experience with JBoss Drools and Drools Fusion (CEP). Drools core developers will be around to help you build your rules based applications.
If you are new to JBoss Drools, this is your opportunity to experience it with some of the core developers of JBoss Drools. If you are already using JBoss Drools and like to get expert advice, here is your opportunity to interact with creators of Drools project.
Registration for JBoss Day is free but places are limited.
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