Pratik Patel
Great Lakes Software Symposium
Chicago · November 13 - 15, 2009
Developer Advocate @ Azul Systems
Pratik Patel is a Java Champion and developer advocate at Azul Systems and has written 3 books on programming (Java, Cloud and OSS). An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's also a co-organizer of the Atlanta Java User Group and North Atlanta JavaScript meetup, frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.
Presentations
Real-world JEE performance troubleshooting & tuning: Tips n' Tricks
Performance tuning any application is a black art that can consume much time. Fortunately, Java has many tools that can aid in this effort. There also are a number of basic tips that can help to analyze and fix performance problems. The Java memory model is usually something that you don't need to tune, but for high performance applications it is necessary to tweak. While there are a number of advanced things that can be done to performance tune an application, we'll discover that the simple, basic things are all that are usually needed to make your apps fly.
Groovy and Grails in the Enterprise
Dynamic languages running on the Java Virtual Machine are starting to gain traction for software development, specifically for large enterprise projects. This session explores obstacles to introducing dynamic languages into the enterprise, example applications that can ease the way, and issues surrounding integrating a dynamic language to Java projects. Using several code examples that demonstrate the power of using a dynamic language like Jruby or Groovy, attendees will gain insight into how dynamic languages are making in-roads to the enterprise. This session focuses on non-GUI related usages – whereas most people think of dynamic languages for Web development.
The target audience for this session is enterprise developers and enterprise architects.
Enterprise JPA & Spring 3.0 - Tips and Tricks for JEE Persistence
As with many technologies, the basics are easy. The hard part comes when the developer needs to do sophisticated integration, development, and testing as part of an enterprise application. A large enterprise application requires the developer to think of issues that affect the development, scalability and robustness of the application. This presentation will cover the advanced topics described below with a focus on the new persistence features in Spring 3.0 and JPA 2.0.
JUnit4: Take your testing to the next level
JUnit 4 is the latest release for the venerable unit testing framework used by all Java developers. JUnit 4 introduces many enhancements and features over Junit 3. This session focuses on using these new features. Code examples will drive this presentation to help the attendee understand the best way to start using the new features. We'll also cover core unit testing principles to refresh everyone's understanding of unit testing best practices.