Key Things from Summit
- Over-look on JVM Languages around Java
- Using the best language suiting your specific needs
- Java can be improved, if you want through JCP
Day 2 - Groovy and Grails, Integrating JVM languagues, JCP & Contribution
Date - 16 & 17, April 2011
Speakers - http://jugchennai.in/chennaijavasummit/speakers.php
Day 1 :
Fantom - Kaushik_Sathupadi
- One of JVM languages
- Developer friendly compiler
- Slide Presented :
- Programming = Process + Data
- Need for Scalability - Scale up Vs Scale out
- NoSql => Pessimistic concurrency in Distributed DB's
- Suggested DB's to scale : BigTable, Cassandra
- Ruby-inspired JVM language
- Calls for contribution on Book on Mirah
- Ruby flavour Language on JVM
- Slide Presented :
Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development - Venkatesh and Rajesh
- Emphasize on Requirement Understanding & Delivery
- Unit test tools - (Cucumber)
- mock test tools - ( Easy mock )
Groovy and Grails - Scott
- Ultimate integration with Java code
- Coding with Groovy is lot simpler
- Groovy has active development cycle
- Grails - scaffolding magic
- Tip - javap command - byte code to java code
- FreeBook on "Getting Started on Groovy" by Scott
- Video by Venkat (not from meetup)
- Advantage - Harness power of Multiple languages
- Integration of all JVM languages works most of the time
- The uncommon problems in integration explained
- Emphasize on Principles ( Don't Repeat Yourself, Single Responsiblity unit ) rather than Frameworks ( Struts etc )
- Have knowledge one layer behind abstraction
JCP & Contribution to Java - Werner
Video From JCP Chairman
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