Last Thursday, 9 July 2015, the ninth meeting of Coimbra JUG was held at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. The attendance was great. We had around 30 persons and considering that July is a month where a lot of people go on vacations, we can’t complain. We had the pleasure to listen to António Gonçalves talking about CDI. A great opportunity to interact with one of the greatest experts in CDI and Java EE in general. The best of all: it was in Portuguese!
In my opinion, CDI is a specification with great potential. It will probably become one central piece of all the other specifications in the Java EE world if is not already. For that reason, it makes sense to dedicate sessions to CDI CDI. Even more, when a lot of developers don’t know it is out there and others use little bits, without knowing that they are using CDI. Not many people from the audience was using CDI. António, demonstrated some of the core features of the specification. With the help of JBoss Forge, António created a small web app and showcased Dependency Injection, Qualifiers, Producer, Scopes, Alternatives and Events.
As always, we had surprises for the attendees. IntelliJ sponsored our event, by offering a free license to raffle among the attendees. Congratulations to Vitor Loureiro for winning the license. Develop with pleasure! We also handed a few Tomitribe and ZeroTurnaround t-shirts.
Here are the materials for the session:
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Last Thursday, 16 April 2015, the eight meeting of Coimbra JUG was held at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. The attendance was not great, compared to the amount of people signed up for it, around 20 to almost 40 signed up, but still a worthy session. We had the pleasure to listen to Bruno Baptista talking about Integration Testing with Arquillian. A very special thanks to Bruno for taking the challenge and steer the session. He is also going to support the group and help me run it.
Anyway, all the audience recognized the importance of Integration Tests, but no one was implementing them. This is why I think these kind of sessions related to Testing are very important to create awareness in the community and professionals. It’s no secret that these practices produce a higher quality result, but for one reason or another, testing is sometimes an elusive task. Bruno explained the main benefits of Integration Testing, plus the major pain points in performing the test. By using a demo, Bruno demonstrated that Arquillian can alleviate much of the pain, by showing how to test a JPA and a REST application.
As always, we had surprises for the attendees. IntelliJ sponsored our event, by offering a free license to raffle among the attendees. Congratulations to Miriam Lopes for winning the license. Develop with pleasure! We also offered the book Continuous Enterprise Development in Java courtesy of O’Reilly, congratulations to Victor Reina. We also handed a few ZeroTurnaround t-shirts.
Here are the materials for the session:
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Last Thursday, 11 December 2014, the seventh meeting of Coimbra JUG was held on the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. This was a special event, since we had the pleasure to have Koen Aers, the first international speaker to visit our JUG, talk a little bit about a very promising tool: JBoss Forge. This meeting was also our First Anniversary Celebration. That’s right, Coimbra JUG was created last year in December. For this meeting we had around 30 people and a few newcomers.
A few people in the audience had already heard about JBoss Forge, but no one was actively using it. Koen demonstrated the tool capabilities by creating a Java EE application, with a few entities and scaffolded a JSF interface in a short amount of time. Next, added some REST services and showed us a way to generate JPA entities with an existing database schema. Time for a break!
Thanks to some of our sponsors we had a few snacks and beer. Of course, we also had a cake to celebrate our first anniversary.
Back to JBoss Forge, Koen was now showing us how to develop plugins. The attendees seemed very curious and interested to learn about it and the questions were great. A lot of interactions and discussions were generated during the session. I might write something about JBoss Forge in the future.
Here are the materials for the session:
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thanks all the sponsors, that in one way or another contributed to our JUG during our first year:
And of course
Koen Aers for taking is time to visit us here in Coimbra. Thank you!
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Last Thursday, 30 October 2014, the sixth meeting of Coimbra JUG was held on the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. The attendance was good, we had around 25 people to listen to my talk about the Java EE Batch. This is the same session I have presented at JavaOne.
No one in the audience was using Java EE Batch, and only a couple were using Spring Batch technologies. By coincidence a few old colleagues of mine, working in a project where I introduced the technology. The attendees seemed very curious and interested to learn about it and the questions were great. A lot of interactions and discussions were generated during the session. A funny thing happened toward the end: there was a power failure and we had to finished the session on the dark! We were lucky, since the session was almost done. Discussions about the topic (and others), bounced to the dinner. We had around ten enthusiasts, for our biggest dinner ever!
As always, we had surprises for the attendees: beer and chocolates, if you participated in the discussion. IntelliJ sponsored our event, by offering a free license to raffle among the attendees. Congratulations to Décio Sousa for winning the license. Develop with pleasure!
Here are the materials for the session:
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A few additional notes:
I would like to welcome Bruno Baptista to the Coimbra JUG Organization. He is going to help me running the JUG.
Coimbra JUG is almost 1 year old! Let’s see if we can pull something interesting to commemorate!
Last Wednesday, 16 July 2014, the fifth meeting of Coimbra JUG was held on the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. The attendance was very good, we had around 30 people to listen João Antunes talk about the Web Framework – Spring MVC. A very special thanks to João for taking the challenge and steer the session.
This topic continues a long list of Web Frameworks planned to be presented at Coimbra JUG. Have a look into the most wanted sessions pool, and cast your vote if you’re a member.
I did a quick introduction about Coimbra JUG for the newcomers and João dived right into the session about Spring MVC. Spring MVC is not exactly a new technology, but only one or two attendees were using it. The rest of the attendees seemed very curious and interested to learn about it.
Looking into Rebellabs – Java Tools and Technologies Landscape for 2014, Spring MVC appears at 1st place for the Web Frameworks in use with a 40% share. A huge percentage, which means that is very likely for you to como across with it in the future.
As always, we had surprises for the attendees: beer and chocolates, if you participated in the discussion. IntelliJ sponsored our event, by offering a free license to raffle among the attendees. Congratulations to João Baltazar for winning the license. Develop with pleasure! We also offered the book The Definitive Guide to HTML5 WebSocket courtesy of Kaazing, congratulations to Jessica Vicente. Finally, we gave away two Atlassian Stash t-shirs: “Just Do GIT” to Mário Homem and João Almeida.
Here are the materials for the session:
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