InfoQ Homepage DevNexus 2013 Content on InfoQ
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Effective Java Reloaded
Matt Stine revisits a subset of techniques and practices from Joshua Bloch’s book “Effective Java.”
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The Spring Update
Josh Long discusses key features of Spring 3.2, 3.3 and 4.0, including support for upcoming standards such as JCache, JMS 2.0, including the plan and motivations behind these releases.
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Introduction to WebSocket
Gunnar Hillert introduces WebSocket, the protocol and the corresponding W3C API, with an emphasis on the JSR-356 defining the Java EE 7 API.
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Introduction to Actors Systems
Josh Suereth designs a distributed search service with Akka using Actors, covering: message passing, designing topologies, handling failure, service overload detection and tracking user sessions.
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Clojure in the Field
Stuart Halloway shares insight from his experience using Clojure for production systems since 2008.
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Concurrency in Clojure
Stuart Halloway discusses concurrency features in Clojure: atoms, agents, futures, delays, promises, STM, and dynamic vars.
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Programming The Feynman Way
Ben Evans explores the idea that many of the characteristics of Feynman’s approach to physics are applicable to programmers, fueling the dream of a world where developers are free to be themselves.
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Rocking the Gradle
Peter Walker discusses and demoes some of Gradle’s features: declarative build, convention over configuration, plugins, multi–project support, partial builds and increments, Ant and Maven integration.
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Groovy for Fun and Profit
Ken Kousen presents a variety of small but non-trivial examples of Groovy in action, using techniques ranging from closures to parsers and slurpers to metaprogramming and AST transformations.
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Grails Goodness
Ken Kousen teaches the fundamentals of Grails through examples: domain classes, controllers, transactional services, producing XML and JSON data, Ajax, unit and integration testing, plugins.
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Multi Client Development with Spring
Josh Long and Roy Clarkson explain how to build for multiple platforms using RESTful services exposed through Spring MVC, HTML5 and client specific rendering thanks to Spring Mobile and Spring Android
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JavaEE.Next(): Java EE 7, 8, and Beyond
Reza Rahman shows code samples for some of the APIs coming in Java EE 7, such as JMS 2, WebSocket, JSON, JAX-RS 2, JPA 2.1, JTA 1.2, etc. and takes a peek at Java EE 8 features to be expected.