Yesteday I got really great news. I was selected to present 3 out of 4 sessions that I have submitted to JavaOne 2014! After attending the first JavaOne in 2012, and going again in 2013, this was my first time submitting something for JavaOne.

I have to confess that I had high hopes of being selected, but I was not expecting to have 3 sessions right in the first year of submissions, since there are a lot of submissions and it’s really hard to get selected. A special thanks to Reza Rahman for helping me out during the submission process and for providing valuable tips. Thanks Reza! I would also like to thank you Ivan Ivanov and Simon Maple my co-speakers in two of the sessions.

Have a look below into the sessions abstracts and videos. I don’t have the schedules yet, but look for them in the JavaOne Schedule Builder (when available) and signup 🙂

What am I going to speak about?

CON2818 – Java EE 7 Batch Processing in the Real World

with Ivan Ivanov

Abstract
This talk will explore one of the newest API for Java EE 7, the JSR 352, Batch Applications for the Java Platform. Batch processing is found in nearly every industry when you need to execute a non-interactive, bulk-oriented and long running operation task. A few examples are: financial transactions, billing, inventory management, report generation and so on. The JSR 352 specifies a common set of requirements that every batch application usually needs like: checkpointing, parallelization, splitting and logging. It also provides you with a job specification language and several interfaces that allow you to implement your business logic and interact with the batch container. We are going to live code a real life example batch application, starting with a simple task and then evolve it using the advanced API’s until we have a full parallel and checkpointing reader-processor-writer batch. By the end of the session, attendees should be able to understand the use cases of the JSR 352, when to apply it and how to develop a full Java EE Batch Application.

BOF4223 – Development Horror Stories

with Simon Maple

Abstract
We all enjoy to hear a good success story, but in the software development industry the life of a developer is also made up of disasters, disappointments and frustrations. Have you ever deleted all the data in production? Or maybe you just run out of disk space and your software failed miserably! How about crashing your server with a bug that you introduced in the latest release? We can learn with each others with the mistakes we made. Come to this BOF and share with us your most horrific development story and what did you do to fix it.

CON4255 – The 5 people in your organization that grow legacy code

 
Abstract
Have you ever looked at a random piece of code and wanted to rewrite it so badly? It’s natural to have legacy code in your application at some point. It’s something that you need to accept and learn to live with. So is this a lost cause? Should we just throw in the towel and give up? Hell no! Over the years, I learned to identify 5 main creators/enablers of legacy code on the engineering side, which I’m sharing here with you using real development stories (with a little humour in the mix). Learn to keep them in line and your code will live longer!