Duchess
Globally Connecting Women in Java Technology

About fifteen people, including some men, were present at the IProfs
office in Utrecht for the Portal workshop. After some drinks and a plate
of mexican food we took our laptops to the presentation room. Marco
Beelen is a software architect working for IProfs and even portal exam
leader at JavaBlackBelt, so he has quite some knowledge about portals.
He first explained what portals are, what they are used for and which
portal servers are most used in real life. It appeared WebSphere
is used most, but since JBoss Portal is Open Source and a good second
choice, this portal server was used during the hands on exercises.

We have installed JBoss Portal (extract-and-go) and have created and
deployed our first portlet. We even got two portlets talking to
eachother, fun! The workshop consisted for a large part of practical
exercises which really gave us a feeling of what a portlet server does
and what a portlet really is.
It was an interesting evening and nice to see so many already familiar
faces there again!

This event has been postponed until after the summer.

We are proud to announce our next event: JBoss Seam by Lunatech tag-team duo, Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux.

JBoss Seam is a powerful new application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications by unifying and integrating technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX), Java Server Faces (JSF), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB3), Java Portlets and Business Process Management (BPM).

Seam has been designed from the ground up to eliminate complexity at the architecture and the API level. It enables developers to assemble complex web applications with simple annotated Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs), componentized UI widgets and very little XML. The simplicity of Seam will enable easy integration with the JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Java Business Integration (JBI) in the future.

This presentation aims to show you the latest development methods using the JBoss Seam framework and all his “components”: Hibernate Validation, Hibernate Search, JAXB, RESTful web services, etc. Through a simple example and with the help of JBoss Seam as a “glue”, we will show how easy it is to transform the simple example into a powerful application.

Peter and Nicolas share many years of experience building Java EE applications for corporate and government IT projects using open-source libraries and agile methods, and recently started the Benelux JBoss User Group. Peter is from the South coast of England, while Nicolas comes from the somewhat warmer South coast of France.

Location:
Lunatech Research BV
Heemraadssingel 70
3021 DD Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Tel: +31-10-750 2600

Directions to Lunatech

Voluntary Entry Fee: € 15

Only 5 days to register for the 5th Benelux JBoss User Group event! We are really excited about it, and hope you are too

Here is a reminder of the location:
Lunatech Research
Heemraadssingel 70
3021 DD Rotterdam
The Netherlands.

There are only 30 places for this event, and registration will be closed after the first 30 people. If you did not already do so, register now!

We have 2 high-quality presentations:

* Seam case study by Joris de Winne and Jeroen Verhulst from RealDolmen, covering how to create components, injection, outjection, scope levels, and security.

* Mark Proctor, lead for JBoss Drools, will talk about Rules, Workflow and Event Processing (often referred to as event stream processing or complex event processing), which are at the heart of the Business Logic for most enterprises.

Of course, beer and networking are also part of the programme

Date: Friday, 27 February 2009
Time: Arrival 1600-1630, presentations start 1630, finish 1900-1930
Location: see http://lunatech-research.com/contact

For more information please visit our web site http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2009/02/04/jbug-2009-02

Please register now at the http://www.lunatech-research.com/event/register/jbug5 if you did not already do so or reply by e-mail to let us know whether you will attend. Only the registered persons will be admitted.

Feel free to forward the invitation to anyone you know who might like to attend.

Nicolas

Hello Duchesses,

This Duchess newsletter is to announce upcoming events for after the summer in the Netherlands and the discount to JAOO in Denmark.

Contents:

• * Spring Framework Event (September 5, 2008, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam)
• * 15% discount for JAOO (September 28 – October 3, 2008 Aarhus, Denmark)
• * Recap: Our presentation at JBoss User Group meeting (June 20, 2008)

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Lunatech Research is organising the fourth Benelux JBoss User Group meeting: an afternoon of free technical sessions presented by JBoss developers. And what is more they have asked us to give a presentation about Duchess and women in IT. Clara and I will be giving the presentation, but we’d like to invite you all to come and see us and join us in the discussion afterwards.

http://www.lunatech-research.com/archives/2008/05/16/jbug-2008-06

http://www.jbossworld.com/register/

JBoss World Orlando is the hot place to be and be seen this winter, when much of the rest of the country will be in deep freeze. It is the world’s largest gathering for users of JBoss, Red Hat, and other related open source solutions. The event’s comprehensive agenda will focus on the technologies, best practices, and industry insights to help IT executives, architects, and developers make better decisions about open source and be successful in driving business transformation in their organizations.

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