Skills Matter is pleased to announce the First Progressive Java Tutorials, the annual Java conference offering a unique blend of product and experience mixed, and tempered with theory and practice.

talks & hands-on tutorials

BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP!

The Progressive Java Tutorials conference will feature tutorials from leading experts in the Java & JVM world, presenting a contemporary Java use-case or technology. You will be able to gain experience and skills, by attending hands-on, practical Java & JVM tutorials, on specific technology stacks, which match the morning talks.

what, where, when

This annual Java conference will take place on May 3-4th, at the Skills Matter eXchange, London's meetup space for the developer community. Come and join us to gain a deep understanding of the Java EE and JVM space, though talks, discussions and hands-on workshops.

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programme

Find the current line up below and follow #progjava for updates...

Thursday 3rd May 2012
Track 1 09.00 - 09.30    WELCOME AND REGISTRATION Coffee, tea & registration, followed by a brief welcome by Jan Macachek.     09.30 - 13.00    POLYGLOT APPS IN JAVA AND SPRING Jan Machacek: Jan will show why you should use the most appropriate language for your Java enterprise application. Discover why it is a really good idea to combine Java with another language. Jan's code will show just how easy it is to use Scala and Java in one project; and the reasons why you might do the same in your projects. more...     13.00 - 14.00    LUNCH : more...     14.00 - 17.30    EXPLORING ENTERPRISE JAVA David Morgantini & Akash Bhalla: The goal of this session is the give participants a quick introduction into Java enterprise development without using the heavy weight tools and process that come with Spring & Java EE. The session will be a hands on test-driven journey through writing a rich web application using Simple Framework and a NoSQL backend. The session will be based on lessons learnt during the building of a large system for a ThoughtWorks client. more...     17.30 - 18.30    PARKBENCH Parkbench panel discussion with Pizza & drinks at #progjava.	Track 2     09.30 - 13.00    MOVING BEYOND OBJECTS Brian Sletten: In this session, we will explore REST and its implications on a resource-oriented environment that embraces it like NetKernel. We will look at what URI-addressability does for us and how we can leverage the open standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) to do amazingly powerful things with precious few lines of code. more...     09.30 - 13.00     MOVING BEYOND OBJECTS Brian Sletten: This is part 2 of Brian Sletten's tutorial. We explore REST and its implications on a resource-oriented environment that embraces it like NetKernel. We will look at what URI-addressability does for us and how we can leverage the open standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) to do amazingly powerful things with precious few lines of code. more...     14:00 - 17:30    NEO4J INTRO Ian Robinson & Jim Webber: Neo4j is an esoteric and powerful member of the NOSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making Neo4j popular for managing complex data across many domains from finance to social, and telecoms to geospatial. This intensive half-day progressive Neo4J tutorial is a hands-on practical session to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and Neo4j. more...
Friday 4th May 2012
Track 1 09.00 - 09.30    REGISTRATION & WELCOME Welcome back to Skills Matter for day 2 of the Progressive Java Tutorials     09.30 - 13.00    CONNECTING TO NEO4J USING SPRING DATA Anirvan Chakraborty: Anirvan's Progressive Java track will show how to use Spring Data Neo4j to build a Spring-based web application based on the graph database Neo4j. The session will begin with a short introduction into Spring Data Neo4j and follow that up by building a 'User Management System' using Neo4j. more...     13.00 - 14.00    LUNCH     14.00 - 17.30    CYBER DOJO Jon Jagger: A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration. The aim of a CyberDojo is to collaborate collectively towards working solutions on all laptops. more...	Track 2     09.30 - 13.00    FULL STACK JAVAEE Kito Mann: It’s time to take another look at Java EE. In addition to minor updates in EJB 3.1 and JPA, JSF 2 and Servlet 3 are major updates that embrace convention or configuration and provide many features that simplify development. This session with Kito Mann will provide an overview of the different parts of Java EE 6 and show you can quickly you can build a complete web application with ease. more...         14.00-17.30    FUTURE SCALA FUTURES Viktor Klang: In this session, Viktor Klang will look at how Futures can be used in for-comprehensions, how to gracefully handle failure, how to avoid blocking operations and get a glimpse into the implementation. We'll get our hands dirty and learn by examples, mixed with presentation-style explaining of how things fit together. more...

	JavaScript with Gradle Luke Daley : 22nd May 2012
	Perfect Clojure John Stevenson : 16th May 2012
	MongoDB with Grails Chris Harris : 16th May 2012
	Non-rails Groovy development Sean Reilly : 16th May 2012
	CouchDB at the Hut Group Tom McMillen : 9th May 2012
	The Couchbase Server Tutorial John Zablocki : 9th May 2012
	Neo4j Tales from the Trenches Nicki Watt : 9th May 2012
	Is Everything Social? Gavin Bell : 8th May 2012
	Neo4j Intro Ian Robinson : 3rd May 2012
	Polyglot apps in Java and Spring Jan Machacek : 3rd May 2012
	Parkbench Various Speakers : 3rd May 2012
	Moving Beyond Objects Brian Sletten : 3rd May 2012
	Exploring enterprise Java David Morgantini : 3rd May 2012
	Connecting to Neo4j using Spring Data Anirvan Chakraborty : 3rd May 2012
	Full Stack JavaEE Kito Mann : 3rd May 2012