Case Study: JUGCentral.com: Building a modern community with the latest technology

JUGCentral.com is a new user group community site, sponsored by No Fluff Just Stuff and Javalobby.

The site was built with the new 'Better, Faster, Lighter' technology stack: WebWork2 as the web framework, SiteMesh as the look and feel decorator, Spring as the business services layer, Hibernate as the data access ORM, and more.

Come listen to us talk about the architecture choices.

JUGCentral.com is a new user group community site, sponsored by No Fluff Just Stuff and Javalobby.

The site was built with the new 'Better, Faster, Lighter' technology stack: WebWork2 as the web framework, SiteMesh as the look and feel decorator, Spring as the business services layer, Hibernate as the data access ORM, and more.

Come listen to us talk about the architecture choices, learn about the technologies, and find out the 'gotchas' that we came across when building this system out, that you shouldn't run into yourself!

About Dion Almaer

Dion Almaer is the founder and CTO of Adigio, Inc. He is an architect, mentor, pragmatic, and evangelist of technologies such as J2EE, JDO, AOP, and Groovy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide.com J2EE Community and enjoys working in the community. He is a member of the Java Community Process, where he participates on various expert groups.

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