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Heroku & Play Framework at JavaOne 2012

Posted by: James Ward on 09/24/2012

This year at JavaOne I’ll be presenting two session and participating in one BOF:

BOF4149 – Web Framework Smackdown 2012 – Monday @ 8:30pm

Much has changed since the first Web framework smackdown, at JavaOne 2005. Or has it? The 2012 edition of this popular panel discussion surveys the current landscape of Web UI frameworks for the Java platform. The 2005 edition featured JSF, Webwork, Struts, Tapestry, and Wicket. The 2012 edition features representatives of the current crop of frameworks, with a special emphasis on frameworks that leverage HTML5 and thin-server architecture. Java Champion Markus Eisele leads the lively discussion with panelists James Ward (Play), Graeme Rocher (Grails), Edward Burns (JSF) and Santiago Pericasgeertsen (Avatar).

CON3845 – Introduction to the Play Framework – Tuesday @ 8:30am

The Play Framework is a lightweight, stateless Web framework for Java and Scala applications. It’s built on Java NIO, so it’s highly scalable. This session gives you an introduction to building Web applications with the Play Framework. You will learn how to set up routes and create controllers and views, plus how to deploy Play Framework applications in the cloud.

CON3842 – Client/Server Applications with HTML5 and Java – Thursday @ 11am

The Web application landscape is rapidly shifting back to a client/server architecture. This time around, the client is JavaScript, HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets in the browser. The tools and deployment techniques for these types of applications are abundant and fragmented. This session shows you how to pull together jQuery, LESS, and Twitter Bootstrap to build the client. The server can be anything that talks HTTP, but this session uses JAX-RS. You will also learn how to deploy client/server Web applications in the cloud with a content delivery network (CDN) for the client and a PaaS for the server.

I hope to see you there!

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About James Ward

James Ward (www.jamesward.com) works for Typesafe where he teaches developers the Typesafe Stack (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka) . James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles. Starting with Pascal and Assembly in the 80′s, James found his passion for writing code. Beginning in the 90′s he began doing web development with HTML, Perl/CGI, then Java. After building a Flex and Java based customer service portal in 2004 for Pillar Data Systems he became a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. In 2011 James became a Principal Developer Evangelist at Salesforce.com where he taught developers how to deploy apps on the cloud with Heroku. James Tweets as @_JamesWard and posts code at github.com/jamesward.

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