-4 days: looking forward to the Application Server Day 2009

May 17, 2009

The first Java Aplication Server day is coming to Genoa this Thursday (May 21st, 2009).

The four speakers – Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine (Sun GlassFish), Paolo Ramasso (Oracle Fusion Middleware), Alessio Soldano (RedHat JBoss) and Alef Arendsen (Spring dm Server) – are warming up the presentations and the demos, ready to make this one of the most interesting, thought-provoking, fun event to be at this year. Four Java application servers discussed and debated in one big room with the community: yes, it’s real!!!

Talking about the community, if you’re in Genoa or can visit Genoa for at least one day (Genoa can easily be reached by train from northern and central Italy, as well as from other places through its international airport), please register on-line. Participation is free, but your registration can help us organize a few things in advance. Invite your friends, invite your colleagues. Help make this a great community event.

The Application Server Day will be held at the Faculty of Engineering, in the Albaro district of Genoa. A map and directions on how to reach the venue are published here.

So see you all on Thursday at 14:00!


Java Application Server day 2009!

April 25, 2009

Following the success of last year Java IDE Day, the entire JUG staff is happy to announce a new special community event: the Java Application Server Day 2009!

The last six months have seen big news on the application server front, including substantially new releases of most major app servers (both commercial and open source), and, last week, news about the Oracle-Sun merger. We hope it will be both interesting and exciting to hear about the technical innovations directly from the evangelists and members of the development teams of four well-known application servers: JBoss, Glassfish, Spring dm Server, Oracle/Weblogic.

Speakers will include Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine (Sun GlassFish), Paolo Ramasso (Oracle Fusion Middleware), Alessio Soldano (RedHat  JBoss) & Alef Arendsen (Spring dm Server), who will compare the most innovative features of theri respective server platforms.

The Application Server Day 2009 will take place

thursday May 21st 2009, 14.30-18.30

in

room B1, Faculty of Engineering, University of Genova,

Via Opera Pia 13, Genova, Italy

(same location as the IDE Day)

Participation is free and open to all, but we kindly ask you to register on the http://www.serverday.org website, where you can also find all practical information about the event.

Please help us to promote the Application Server Day by publishing the news on your blog/newsletter/site.


Slides from the meeting on Alfresco and Jazoon

April 25, 2009

Here you are the slides from Giampiero’s presentation on the architecture and features of the latest Alfresco release.

The meeting also included a presentation by Christian Frei about the upcoming Jazoon 2009 conference.

Thanks to all who attended, including a few members from other JUG Milano.


Genova JUG Meeting @ DIST on Alfresco and Jazoon 2009 – 13/03/2009

March 4, 2009

The next meeting of the Genova JUG will take place on the 13th of March 2009 at DIST – Faculty of Engineering, meeting room on the third floor, Via Opera Pia 13, GENOVA (zona Albaro)

We will talk about:

* Alfresco and Java CMS (Giampiero Granatella)
* Jazoon 2009  (Christian Frei)

A discussion of Java CMS development issues will follow.

Participation is free and open to all; if you plan to attend, please register on http://jugevents.jugpadova.it/jugevents/event/show.html?id=14408. Note: If you plan to join us for a pizza in a nearby place, please add “(pizza)” to your last name when registering.

To be notified of event updates see

or join our mailing list on


Javaday 2009 slides are online

February 28, 2009

All the slides from the very interesting Javaday 2009 event organized by JUG Rome are available online, including JUG Genova member  Carlo Bonamico’s talk on Effectively using Maven2 in large projects.

Again congratulations to JUG Rome for organizing the event!


Slides from the meeting on DSLs and iText

February 3, 2009

Here you are the slides from the very interesting presentations that Alessio and Massimo gave at the last meeting.

Alessio introduced LISP and LISP support on the JVM with ABCL, then explained how to use it to quickly create DSLs. Code samples are available at http://juggenova.net/code-samples/

Massimo gave a tutorial on iText, a very powerful and flexible library for the generation of PDF and HTML documents.

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dcbfhm98_75gcvm7qg3


Genova JUG Meeting @ DISI on DSL and iText – 20/01/2009

January 12, 2009

The next meeting of the Genova JUG will take place on the 20th of January 2009 at DISI – Via Dodecanneso 35, GENOVA (Albaro).

We will talk about:

* DSLs with the Java Scripting Framework (Alessio Stalla)
* PDF generation with  iText (Massimo Caliman)

A discussion of Java Application development issues will follow.

Participation is free and open to all; if you plan to attend, please register on http://jugevents.jugpadova.it/jugevents/event/show.html?id=9124. Note: If you plan to join us for a pizza in a nearby place, please add “(pizza)” to your last name when registering.

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JUG Genova Meetings in 2009

January 12, 2009

Our last call for topics/speakers received enthusiastic responses from JUG members… so we are happy to announce that we have a full program for the next eight months! So, get ready for the next meetings on

To be notified of upcoming meetings, you can follow this blog and our news page on jugevents.org (RSS feed).


JavaDay Roma 2009: not to be missed!

January 5, 2009


After the great success of last year edition (with more than 1000 participants) of the community event, JUG Rome is again very busy organizing a “bigger and better” third edition, which will take place saturday 24th January 2009.

The event will focus on 30 technical presentations, covering Web 2.0, Object Oriented and beyond, Spring and open source, Mobile and collaboration,new languages, with both Italian and international speakers (including members of JUG Genova :-) … ).

For location information and free registration see http://roma.javaday.it.


Slides from the meeting on NetBeans 6.5 and JavaFX

December 4, 2008

The recent NetBeans Demo Camp special meeting was definitely a success! We had an higher than usual attendance, with several new faces. Again, we thank NIS for hosting the meeting…

Giampaolo Melis on JavaFX
Giampaolo Melis on JavaFX
Fabrizio Giudici on NetBeans 6.5
Fabrizio Giudici on NetBeans 6.5

Everyone enjoyed Fabrizio’s presentation on the latest NetBeans 6.5 features (hibernate support, JavaScript debugging, incremental compilation, and more), and Giampaolo presentation and demo on the integration of Java FX and Java. Giampaolo presented several hybrid applications where a JavaFX GUI enriches a Java application logic.

The topics for the next meeting, which will take place on the 20th January 2008 will be announced shortly… stay tuned!