DevNexus 2015 was held in historic Atlanta on March 10-12. For those of you not familiar with it, DevNexus is the most significant Java centric conference in the South Eastern US and now perhaps even at a national level. It was started by JBoss Java Champion Burr Sutter and organized by the Atlanta JUG (currently lead by Vincent Mayers, Gunnar Hillert, Pratik Patel, et al). As usual DevNexus attracted a bevy of world class speakers including Stephen Chin, Jim Weaver, Ed Burns, Venkat Subramaniam, Yakov Fain, Kito Mann, Markus Eisele, Raju Gandhi, Freddy Guime, Max Katz, Jason Porter and so on. Topics included Java SE, NoSQL, mobile, cloud, Docker, HTML5/JavaScript and of course Java EE. Indeed I think this year Java EE made a very strong showing at DevNexus.
I ran the Java EE 7 HOL as a whole day workshop as well as delivering sessions on Java EE 8, JMS 2 and Java EE alignment with reactive programming. Ed Burns delivered a very good talk on HTTP 2 and Servlet 4 while Jason Porter delivered a JPA talk. More details on the sessions and DevNexus 2015, including slide decks and code, posted on my personal blog.
