Java2Days 2014 was held on November 17-19 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is far and away the largest Java conference in the Balkans region and now perhaps one of the most important conferences in Europe as a whole. This was another great year for this rapidly growing, vibrant event. It attracted a host of international and local speakers including Arun Gupta, Geertjan Wielenga, Roberto Cortez, Ivan St. Ivanov, Andy Gumbrecht and Andrew Lombardi. Topics included Java SE, Java EE, HTML5/JavaScript, mobile, OSGi, IoT and the cloud. I am extremely grateful that the organizers invited me again this year and very glad that I was able to accept.
Java EE had a strong showing this year:
- What's Coming in Java EE 8 - me
- Nuts and Bolts of WebSocket - Arun
- Java EE 7 Hands-on Lab - Arun, Ivan and me
- Apache Tomcat to Apache TomEE in 1-n Steps - Andy Gumbrecht
- Java EE 7 Batch Processing in the Real World - Roberto and Ivan
- Coding for Desktop and Mobile with HTML5 and Java EE 7 - Geertjan
- JavaScript/HTML5 Rich Clients Using Java EE 7 - me, Ivan
- Forge and Arquillian Hands-on Lab - Ivan, me
- Why Open Standards and Java/EE Matter (to You) - me
More details on the sessions and Java2Days, including the slide decks, video and code, posted on my personal blog.
