Theme tag cloud

[leonardinius]

I suppose we could start to collect items each of us could talk about.

So..
1) Ruby On Rails, JRuby.
From experience (outdated one).
Java-As-Platform, the main topic is Ruby and Ruby On Rails itself.
Potentially could expand to Grails, and all other frameworks and
languages on top of the Java platform.

2) Yahoo!, Google etc widgets. Small mashup application platforms.
From experience.
Nothing to has in common in Java itself :) Just a new direction to go
in UI development and services to to provide.
Several slides could be about java as the backend and (possible ?)
technology integrations available.

3) SAP platform
A little experience. A few words only.
Java RFC experience, technologies and approaches used to provide RPC
via JSON services etc. XQuery usage to provide ad-hoc scripting
solution. Netweaver JAVA Application server.
It smth very specific and domain oriented, so it's not smth
interesting.

4) Eclipse plugins. A little experience.

5) Seam - reading + trying.
J2EE platform, frameworks and bottlenecks. Seam as a new player (new
approaches and targets). The new way to organize J2EE web
development.

6) Lucene. Information retrieval. - Reading + free time hobby :)
Information retrieval approaches, solutions and king-of-the-kings on
the java side - Lucene itself.


So. These are items I could tell smth about. I suppose it's nothing
very interesting though and isn't very tightly tied to the Java
topics.
So any recommendations and comments are highly appreciated.

[leonardinius]

Themes I am interested in (if someone has smth to share):

* OSGi or OSGi versus Superpackages
* Java 7 features
* White box testing. Advanced topics (Problems etc...Singletones...)

[buz...@gmail.com]

Hi I see several interesting topics already :)
Sounds promising.

My cloud (McCloud) would be:

1) Modern Web Frameworks (GWT/ZK)
2) Ruby language
3) Performance measurement and tuning of Web Apps
4) Hibernate
5) Spring
6) Agile approaches to development
7) Automated Testing (UI, Performance, Integration, Acceptance)
8) Design patterns
9) TOP 10 Java programmer mistakes (could be top 50 if we will have
enough time)
10) Reviewing code and architectures
11) Caching in Web Apps and not only there
12) Bean Mapping

I will not make it more detailed right now. Just to give an overview
of what I do have experience.

I would be very interested in Lucene, Seam and JRuby experience and
knowledge.

[leonardinius]

I don't understand the way discussions work. I couldn't see the
message I posted a few seconds ago :) So, once more:
I would be interested in:

* OSGi or OSGi versus Superpackages
* Java 7 features

* White Box testing. Advanced topics.

From Your "smal" list I am highly interested in:

1) Modern Web Frameworks (GWT/ZK)

3) Performance measurement and tuning of Web Apps

7) Automated Testing (UI, Performance, Integration, Acceptance)

10) Reviewing code and architectures

8) Design patterns
Could be the common topic. I suppose we could prepare 1 pattern on
every second, third (you name it) meeting and each of us could prepare
examples and questions.
So, we could take all the GOF patterns in a year or smth and prepare a
real nice set of presentations and material about this.

>
> I would be very interested in Lucene, Seam and JRuby experience and
> knowledge.
>

I'm afraid I could not prepare and overview very advanced topics, but
I could make an overview and prepare some topics in more details (You
name it).
Plus, I suppose Maxim could invite some guys with very detailed
knowledge of the Seam stack.
So.. Lucene and JRuby are potential candidates.

[buz...@gmail.com]

The thing to remember about the discussions is that they work *slow*.
You can expect that your message will appear in 5 minutes or so.
Be patient.

I would not limit myself to GOF patterns as there are more.
But some of them are interesting to discuss Singletone for instance :)
However there is nothing new we can invent about GOF patterns because
there are tons of information out there.

[dinosaurus]

Mostly mentioned topics are ok for me.
May be I wouldn't be very interested in:
- design patterns.
- TOP 10 Java programmer mistakes

I'd be more interested in the following stuff:
1. OSGi
2. Java performance tuning
3. Multicore vs one core CPUs, future of Java with multicore
4. Flash/Flex

From my side I could talk a bit about performance, hibernate,
Swing, Java memory management.

I think when we'll have a full list - everybody could set-up
priorities as 1- Low, 2 - Med, 3- High. So that we
could select most interesting topics.


Regards,
Maxim