Brian Sam-Bodden

Greater Michigan Software Symposium

Detroit · September 9 - 11, 2005

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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 Object-Relational Mapping with Hibernate

Hibernate is rapidly becoming the tool of choice when it comes to Object-Relational Mapping in Java. For simple applications with fairly simple object models and database schemas, using Hibernate is fairly straight forward. Unfortunately for most of us real applications have complex object-models that need to be wired to sometimes ancient and convoluted database schemas.

XML made easy with XOM

XML is quickly becoming the common ground for disparate systems to exchange information and most Java developers deal with XML almost on a daily basis, whether is in deployment descriptors and configuration files or as the data format at the center of their applications.

Complex Builds with Ant

Ant has revolutionized the way we build applications in Java and it has become a de facto standard in the Java world. As applications grow in complexity some developers are finding themselves dealing with ever growing and complex builds. Complex builds have to deal with Multiple Operating System, multiple Application Servers, multiple APIs and multiple stages of development.