OrlandoJUG Tonight! - Let's talk about JavaOne!

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OrlandoJUG Tonight! - Let's talk about JavaOne!

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

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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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Comment by Ed Burns on November 29, 2017 at 4:50pm

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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Happy 10th year, JCertif!

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