Gateway Software Symposium - March 6 - 8, 2009 - No Fluff Just Stuff

Brian Sam-Bodden

Gateway Software Symposium

St. Louis · March 6 - 8, 2009

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Brian Sam-Bodden

Brian Sam-Bodden is a developer advocate at Redis Labs as well as an author, instructor, speaker, and hacker who has spent over twenty years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics. Brian is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad and is the author of “Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry”, co-author of the “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies” and a contributor to O'Reilly's “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”.

Presentations

Beginning Drools - Rule Engines in Java

Drools is an open source pure-Java implementation of a forward chaining rules engine. Drools can be used in a J2SE or J2EE application and allows you to express rules programatically or by building domain specific rule languages. Learn how Business Rules with Drools can make your Java applications more flexible and robust.

Advanced Rules Programming with Drools

In this session you'll learn some of the more advanced features of Drools; a pure-Java Rule Engine. This session will walk through the construction of an advanced Rules application covering such topics as:

  • Fine control and monitoring of a Working Memory session
  • Using Decision Tables
  • Advanced Rule Language Features
  • Building Domain Specific Languages
  • Managing your Rules

Refactoring with JRuby

Learn how JRuby can bring simplicity to the complex and rich APIs available in the Java platform. In this session you'll learn how to use JRuby to tackle some common tasks in Java SE and Java EE as well as how to abstract and simplify complex APIs.

Enterprise Integration Patterns with Camel and Mule

Integration Patterns
Implementations in Camel and Mule

10 ways to use Hibernate effectively

Learn 10 tried and true ways to improve the way you use Hibernate today. In this session you would learn about a collection of 10 tips, tricks, practices and tools that will make you more effective at designing, implementing, testing and tuning your application's Hibernate-powered object-relational layer.

Increasing your Eclipse Productivity

Mylyn, Eclipse Plugins, Tips and Tricks