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Devoxx again Sold Out!
Last
years JavaPolis was sold out and guess what... so is Devoxx!
Looks like the name refactoring didn't have any impact on
registrations. With 3200 attendees we can again conclude that Devoxx is the biggest vendor independent Java conference in the world!
Next
week we'll welcome international attendees from 35 different countries
including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, France Metropolitan, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia
Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey,
United Kingdom and United States.
So
just imagine what 3200 attendees can learn and discover over a period
of 5 super intense days... oooh this will be fun :)
Collect your badge Sunday evening
If
you're arriving in Antwerp this weekend then please consider collecting
your university and/or conference badge on Sunday evening from 18h30
till 20h00 at the MetroPolis Business reception.
The
Benelux attendees who already have received their badge through snail
mail can go directly in the exhibition area and collect their welcome
bag and enjoy some croissants and Java coffee on Monday morning.
Devoxx Movie
In Belgium we drink a Jupiler and the earth stands still for a few minutes, on Thursday evening it will take a bit longer...
Meet JSR Spec. Leads @ new JCP BOF
On
Tuesday evening you can meet several JSR Specification Leads at an
informal JCP driven BOF from 19h00 till 20h00 in BOF Room 2. See
you all there.
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Our Devoxx Partners
In
this last newsletter we really would like to thank our Partners.
Without these companies we would never have the entrance fee as low as
it is. They are also responsible for the vibrant exhibition area
from Tuesday till Thursday, where you can learn new products, discover
new services, meet new faces and most of all... collect some cool
goodies.
THANK YOU Sun Microsystems, IBM, Adobe,
JBoss, JetBrains, Logica, Oracle,OW2 Consortium, RealDolmen, Azul
Systems, Birt Exchange, CapGemini, dynaTrace, EDS, Hippo, Intersystems,
Kaazing, Microsoft, SpringSource, Terracotta, XPlore Group,
ZeroTurnaround, Coverity, ACA IT Solutions, Atlassian, Atos Origin,
Cegeka, Ciber, De Post, ILOG, Infragistics, Ordina, Usginnotiv, Altran,
Amplexor, Caucho, CSC, Eclipse, Intland Software, Ivar Jacobson
International, JasperSoft, Orqua, Vici consulting. See you all
next week.
Speaker questions and discussion forum
We're always searching to improve your conference experience, so this year Devoxx will be using Confetto to allow attendees
to interact with each other.
At first Confetto looks like just another
chat tool, but actually it's much more. Confetto allows users to make
comments about conference sessions and post questions about the
session. If you see a question someone else has asked and you also
have the same questions then, you can vote up the existing question.
Confetto also contains a realtime tag cloud from all "recent" text
comments and questions entered in Confetto. Clicking on any tag cloud
tag will open all sessions in Confetto that an attendee has recently
typed the selected tag. Finally confetto contains a tab that shows all
messages typed in Confetto at Devoxx.
So login to our wiki and view a presentation abstract
where you can post your questions in advance. Hopefully the
speakers will have some time before, during or after their talk to
answer them!
Blogs and Pictures tagging
If you're planning to publish pictures and/or blog about Devoxx, then please make sure you tag your content with either "devoxx" or "devoxx08". This way we can assemble your content on our home page.
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Partner Communication
ADOBE
Adobe @ Devoxx : A Deeper Dive
 Adobe is proud to be a Premium Sponsor of Devoxx 2008. Most of you already
know how Adobe fits in the Java stack and how our solutions offer an added
value. This year we will ?dive deeper? to convince you that Adobe
is still ahead of the game when we talk about Rich Internet Applications
technology.
This
year the Adobe booth is all about ?Experience?. A part of it is
dedicated to our partners: They are presenting projects build with Adobe
technology. Come and have a look at the demos and understand how they were
build!
Of course you can also just stop by the booth to meet & greet the
Adobe speakers and Adobe employees.
Last but not least we also provided some cool gadgets & prizes?
Win by playing with the ?Adobe Slot Machine?!
IBM
Devoxx 2008: powered by IBM middleware
 Devoxx organizers have accepted to let IBM develop an innovative pilot project during the Devoxx 2008 conference.
All attendees will receive a RFID enabled badge and IBM, together with
Intermec and Skillteam, have provided an infrastructure that will:
- track anonymously attendance to the different sessions
- pre-fill electronic contact forms for the sponsors in the booth
This
application and the underlying technologies used will be detailed
during the keynote session on Wednesday December 10th. Don?t miss it.
This application together with IBM software products will also be
showcased on the IBM booth during the exhibition. A good opportunity
for you to discover some of our latest Rational, Websphere, Lotus,
Tivoli and Information Management software products in action.
See you there :-)
http://www.ibm.com/be
http://www.intermec.com
http://www.skillteam.com
JBOSS
JBoss: Developing Apps in a Stable Environment
For the third year in a row JBoss is proud to attend Devoxx as a Premium Sponsor.
This
year, 19 topics will be presented at the conference and
university. JBoss core developers will introduce the newest JBoss
products, such as the JBoss SOA Platform and JBoss Application Server
5, and the latest JBoss developers tools.
To get a full overview of all JBoss topics and speakers at Devoxx have a look at our event calendar.
NEW: JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 now available. Download it for FREE.
JBoss
Developer Studio is a set of eclipse-based development tools that are
pre-configured for JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, it provides a
certified, open source development environment that will help you save
time, speed time to deployment and be more productive.
JBoss Trainings - Straight from the source. Come by to win two free seats and a football table for your team!
JETBRAINS
Did you know that
IntelliJ IDEA's Scala plugin is
written almost entirely in Scala, and significant parts of the Ruby plugin run under
JRuby?
In developing support for the various languages of the JVM
environment (Java, Ruby, Groovy, Python, and Scala) in IntelliJ IDEA, we used
those very languages. That will be the focus of our presentation on
Cross-Language Development in JVM environment at Devoxx 2008.
We'll describe our experience extending a large Java application
with those languages, the problems we've faced, and the benefits we've achieved.
We'll also demonstrate the cross-language development features of IntelliJ IDEA,
including cross-language navigation, refactoring and
cross-compilation.
We hope that our experience will let you decide whether to start using one of these JVM-based languages in your own project.
ORACLE
Get your java projects under control with real predictable scalability and on the fly insight.
Oracle is proud to be a sponsor of Devoxx 2008 and this for the seventh time in as many editions!
Expect us to come up again this year with industry-leading expert
speakers on O-R mapping, java scalability, JSF, AJAX and many other
technologies that will be the foundation of your future development
projects. If you ever wanted to have real predictable scalability
of your java application or have insight information on how your
application is running in production, come over to the Oracle stand for
some great demos and detailed information about these
application-saving technologies.
- Oracle Application Development Framework
Oracle ADF is an end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies
development by providing out of the box infrastructure services and a
visual and declarative development experience.
- Oracle Coherence
Coherence provides replicated and distributed (partitioned) data
management and caching services on top of a reliable, highly scalable
peer-to-peer clustering protocol.
- Oracle TopLink 11g with embedded Grid capabilities
Oracle TopLink delivers a proven enterprise Java solution for all of
your persistence needs based on high performance and scalability,
developer productivity, and flexibility in architecture and design.
OW2
Come
and meet the OW2 Community at DeVoxx ! (booth n° 9)
Enjoy
live demonstrations of projects covering the whole middleware
spectrum: application server, ESB, workflow engine, BPEL, business
intelligence, portal,wiki, etc.
Members demonstrating on the OW2 village include: Bull, EBM WebSourcing, eXo Platform, INRIA, Talend, and XWiki.
Do not miss the OW2 presentation on wednesday at 15:10 "The OW2 Code Base : Component Models in Action".
The talk will focus on the architecture vision of OW2 Consortium. More
specifically, it will show how component-based architectures built with
Fractal and OSGi power the consortium code base.
OW2 is an independant industry consortium dedicated to developing open
source code middleware and to fostering a vibrant community and
business ecosystem.
Visit http://www.ow2.org for more information!
BIRT EXCHANGE
Find out why BIRT is the most popular Eclipse-based open source reporting tool
With over 5 million downloads and
counting, BIRT is quickly becoming one of the most popular open source
reporting tools for Java developers. Devoxx 2008 will provide a great opportunity
for you to learn more about BIRT and how you can use it to bring powerful
reporting and visualization features to your application.
While you are at Devoxx: 
- Stop by the BIRT Exchange booth (#24) to
speak with Java Reporting Evangelist Virgil Dodson and other BIRT experts.
We'll be showing off the latest BIRT technology and giving
away free BIRT reference books.
- Attend Virgil's session on Integrating
BIRT Reporting with Applications on Thursday December 11th at 16:40
Before or after the conference, visit BIRT Exchange to
get started with BIRT or to learn more about specific features and techniques.
BIRT Exchange is a community site where you can access the latest
BIRT downloads,
share code samples, get your questions answered on the forums and more.
Capgemini
Java technology at a top consultancy company
If you've been in Belgium recently, you can hardly have missed the ads about the INGAuto.be car insurance. What you won't hear in the commercials is that Capgemini consultants have strongly assisted ING in building the IBM Websphere
In another recent project, Capgemini assisted Euroclear with their new enterprise web portal, based on the powerful IBM Websphere Portal software.
As you can see, Java technology is very important for Capgemini's business, and a lot of our consultants are working with Java technology, in roles varying from development to enterprise architecture.
Another thing which is evident in the two projects cited above, is our focus on IBM Websphere technology. In fact, Capgemini's global alliance with IBM is one of Capgemini's strong points in relation to Java technology. With its large portfolio of Websphere technology and software, IBM is an important player in enterprise Java installations, and at Capgemini we very
much appreciate our preferential relationship.
We are constantly looking for motivated professionals, both experienced and starting, to strengthen our Java teams. Are you interested in putting your Java expertise to good use? Interested in working for a top technology company that has been elected four times in a row "Top Employer Belgium" by crf.com? Then don't hesitate to come and see us at Devoxx 2008!
Don't forget to bring your cv. Or send it to sylvie.erb@capgemini.com.
Steven Eggenstein, Domain Manager Java - Capgemini Belgium
DYNATRACE
Continuously Manage the Performance of Your Java Applications!
dynaTrace
is the leader in Lifecycle Application Performance Management for
business-critical Java and .NET applications. dynaTrace enables
Continuous Application Performance by tracing all individual
transactions from business to code level as they are processed,
proactively identifying and diagnosing performance issues before they
escalate into problems. In each application lifecycle stage ?
development, test, production ? IT personnel now can see and understand
where and why performance issues exist.
Want to learn more?
ILOG
ILOG JViews
suite targets high-end visualization applications, such as large-scale
industrial monitoring systems or Web-enabled road traffic information
systems. The new release of ILOG JViews 8.5 brings the best-of-class diagraph displays for Java Swing, Ajax thin client, and native Eclipse displays and key features like:
Sophisticated Graph Layout Capabilities for Eclipse Developers
- Native integration with Eclipse?s EMF, GMF, and GEF
- A full range of graph layout algorithms that make the displays more readable
Greatly Enhanced Ajax Thin Client Support
- Integration
with the latest Ajax frameworks, such as IceFace, RichFaces, and
Trinidad, shortening development time and lowering maintenance costs
- Support for Ajax data push (aka Comet), enabling asynchronous updates
Effortless Performance Improvements Using Graphic Symbols
Compilation of symbols directly into Java code, yielding improvements up to 300%
And Much More
with a Google Maps integration, sped up and improved the aesthetics of
some of our graph layout algorithms, enhanced our Gantt Chart data
model, and more
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