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J-Spring 2009 java conference

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I think, the Dutch Java User Group (NLJUG) is one of the best (Java) usergroups. Twice a year they organise a Java conference event; J-Fall and J-Spring.
Today I just came back from J-Spring 2009. It was a very nice day with a lot of interesting information.

After the opening words, we had a keynote session with Atlassian (Australian company – Confluence/Jira) about Agile development.
Afterwards I got to see a session from Xebia “DCI – Programming based on roles.”
It was very interesting, a download of the DCI presentation can be found here. Then I saw the very technical session from Angelika Langer, “Java Programming in a Multicore world”.

I’ve also seen sessions about MDA – Model Driven Architecture; how you can generate code from UML diagrams. The key is, that you won’t generate all code, but extend it manual.
A bottom-top pragmatic solution would be the best.

But the most informative and coolest session was the session about Google Android. The mobile phone platform from Google, based on Linux and Dalvik VM. You can download and try the Android Eclipse plugin from the Android Developer site, aswell as order a Google Developer G1 phone. (Which you can connect to your Eclipse IDE, and debug on the fly.)

After all these tech fun, I’m gonna relax a bit, and check out my new ordered book: “Flex on Rails”.
What a nice day of a developer.