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Gateway Software Symposium

April 5 - 6, 2024

Practical AI Tools for Java Developers

Friday - Apr 5 1:15 PM CDT - MARYVILLE II

This talk will be tailored to Java developers as we delve into the practical applications of AI tools to ease your software development tasks. We'll explore the capabilities of GitHub Copilot used as a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and VSCode. We'll also play with GPT4 and examine ways it can help.

It's often said that AI tools will not replace existing developers, but that a developer with those tools will have an advantage over developers without them. Join us as we try to demystify the world of AI for Java developers, equipping you with practical skills to incorporate these tools into your development workflow. Note that this is a rapidly changing field, and the talk will evolve to work with the latest features available.

Kenneth Kousen

Kenneth Kousen

President, Kousen IT, Inc.

Workshop Requirements

This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.

  • Java 17 or above, mostly for records, the HTTP client, and other features
  • If you want to access OpenAI services, you need to register for a developer key at https://platform.openai.com.
  • If you want to run the AI tools locally, as some of the exercises do, please install Ollama. The installer is located at https://ollama.com, and is available for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
  • Once you've installed Ollama, download the gemma2 and moondream models. The command to do so is ollama run gemma2 and the same for moondream. You can also use pull instead of run.

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.