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Time: November 30, 2017 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Canvs Winter Park
Street: 101 S New York Ave Suite 201
City/Town: Winter Park, FL 32790
Website or Map: https://canvs.org/contact/
Phone: 321-252-9322 @mikelevin
Event Type: orlandojug, meeting
Organized By: Michael Levin
Latest Activity: Nov 30, 2017
Join us for this last minute look at the JavaOne that was. Ed Burns and
Vernon Singleton, JavaOne veterans both, will share their experiences
and some of their sessions in this informal last-minute JUG session.
Come learn about Portlets, Java EE, EE4J, Liferay, Serverless
Java, and the hot new Fn Project.
Pizza sponsored by LifeRay :::: https://www.liferay.com/
Vernon Singleton is a senior developer at Liferay. Vernon has over 20
years of experience in software engineering. Vernon helps Liferay
implementing and testing the Portlet 3.0 Bridge for JSF 2.2 (JSR 378)
and also Portlet 3.0 (JSR 362), Servlet 4.0 (JSR 369), and JSF 2.3+ (JSR
372). Which Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs) have you run lately?
Get your impl on!
Ed Burns is a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle
America, Inc. and has worked on a wide variety of client and server side
web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun
Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most extensively, JavaServer Faces, on
which he is the co-spec lead. Ed is also the co-spec lead for the
Servlet specification. Ed is an experienced international conference
speaker, with consistently high attendence numbers and ratings at
JavaOne (Rockstar award 2016), Devoxx, DevNexus, JAOO, JAX,
W-JAX, No Fluff Just Stuff, JA-SIG, The Ajax Experience, and Java and
Linux User Groups. He has published four books with McGraw-Hill,
JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (2006), Secrets of the Rockstar
Programmers: Riding the IT crest (2008) JavaServer Faces 2.0: The
Complete Reference (2010) and Hudson Continuous Integration In Practice
(2013). JavaOne Rockstar
Social from 6-7 Presentation will begin at 7.
The beautiful co-op workplace called Canvs. You can work here by the day, week or month. Perfect 4 freelancers and startups.
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Please Join Vernon Singleton and I for this informal session recapping the sessions we attended and gave at JavaOne 2017. Our JUG Leader and Java Champion Mike Levin was also there and sharing stories and impressions. This is a great chance to catch up on what's new in the Java world.
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