Together with the BeJUG team, we organise our 2nd session about the subject “Programming For Kids” – Code name: DEVOXX4Kids :)

Everybody interested in this subject is invited.

Pictures and videos from our first session: http://bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Programming+for+Kids

Infos concerning our next session: http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Devoxx4Kids+Meeting

Together with the BeJUG and the BruJUG, Oracle invites you to the new year community event on January 17th 2012 in thier premises at Medialaan 50, 1800 Vilvoorde. The event is free, but registration is required. Snacks and drinks will be provided and this is the place where the Belgian Java community starts the new year!

Call for Lightning Talks is OPEN. Please contact us if you would like to present a project, speak about a special experience or just want to dance and sing in front of 100 Java geeks.

Registration:

http://bejava.eventbrite.com/

Agenda:

• 18h00 : Registration & welcome drink
• 18h30 : EclipseLink: The Evolution of Java Persistence in Java EE 7 by Shaun Smith (cf. below)
• 19h30 : Lightning Talks…
• 20h30 : Drinks, finger foods & networking

EclipseLink – The Evolution of Java Persistence in Java EE 7

Data access today isn’t just about reading and writing from relational databases anymore.  It’s also about mapping your objects to XML and to JSON for use in RESTful web services.  It’s about being able to persist your objects in NoSQL databases and being able to cache them in data grids so you can scale out your application to hundreds of servers.

The EclipseLink project is well known as an object-relational mapping framework and as the JPA 2.0 reference implementation in Java EE 6, but it is evolving to provide a comprehensive set of data services for Java developers building enterprise and cloud applications in Java EE, Java SE, and in OSGi.

In this session we’ll dive into these new services and see how to build modern enterprise Java applications leveraging EclipseLink both in the back end for data persistence and on the front end to build RESTful services that support HTML5 clients.

Features will include:

• EclipseLink “JSON-B”—provides Java/JSON binding similar to EclipseLink JAXB’s Java/XML binding. With JSON-B, developers can easily marshall their Java domain model to and from JSON which is the preferred format for HTML5/JavaScript clients.
• EclipseLink JPA-RS—provides a service that exposes JPA mapped entities over REST either as XML with JAXB or JSON with EclipseLink JSON-B.  It supports a full CRUD API as well as named query invocation.
• Resource Mapping—While JAXB and JSON-B provide a way to marshall to and from XML/JSON, RESTful services require a way to define what constitutes a resource.  A naive approach of entity==resource may be used but is likely inefficient.  With EclipseLink Resource Mapping the classes in a domain model can be declaratively mapped to a resource model which can be exposed using JPA-RS.
• EclipseLink Dynamic Provisioning—provides persistence services to pure HTML5 applications without the need for Java classes.  With Dynamic Provisioning, HTML5 clients can dynamically define storage requirements for a set of classes (object types) and EclipseLink will instantiate a full JPA-RS CRUD service for those classes as well as JPQL query support.

Speaker

Shaun Smith is a Principal Product Manager for Oracle TopLink and an active member of the Eclipse community. He’s Ecosystem Development Lead for the EclipseLink project and a committer on the Eclipse Gemini Enterprise Modules, and the Dali Java Persistence Tools projects. He’s currently working on OSGi persistence in the Eclipse Gemini project and Oracle TopLink Grid, which integrates Oracle Coherence with EclipseLink JPA to provide “JPA on the Grid”.

We would like to invite you to our next event on Thu, October 27 2011, 19:00 to 21:30 at KUL Leuven (see below). As usual, the session is in English and the entry is free.

This is the second event in cooperation with the BeJUG. It is planned since last year and was originally supposed to be the first “real” conjoint JUG session.

The event location is in Leuven, so it would be nice to organise some car sharing if possible. Please send us a mail in case you are looking for a place or if you have free seats to offer. We will play Tetris then.

Please note that this will be the last (regular) event for this season that will be organised outside of Brussels.

What’s the session about?

This time we will have a high-level Eclipse team as guest, provided and directly coming from the Eclipse Foundation. Ralph Mueller, Eclipse Ecosystem Europe Director, joins us together with two colleagues, Wayne Beaton and Tom Schindl, to allow us a deep dive into the Eclipse Foundation eco system.

Of course, this is not the time to speak about the Eclipse IDE – Having experts at our disposal, we have more challenging and sophisticated topics on the list:
UPDATED TOPICS:

• Ralph Mueller – Welcome
• Wayne Beaton – Getting Involved with Eclipse
• Wayne Beaton – Orion: Tools for the web, on the web
• Tom Schindl – e4
• Sven Efftinge – Domain-Specific Languages with Eclipse Xtext
• B. Muskalla – Pimp your productivity with Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn

The registration to this promising session is yet open and we recommend too not waiting to long with reserving. Places are limited and we have two JUG populations to feed :)

Hope to see you there!

The Brussels JUG is sponsored by ISABEL SA. The travel and accommodation costs are sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation! This event is organised in cooperation with the BeJUG.

BruJUG detail page:
http://www.brussels-jug.be/wiki/doku.php?id=events2:2011_10_session1

BeJUG detail page:
http://bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Eclipse+Deep+Dive

UPDATE: Registration via JUGEVENTS:
http://jugevents.org/jugevents/event/41667
(Please don’t register via the BeJUG registration).

With this post, we officially open the Brussels JUG season 2011/2012. We hope you had nice holidays and never forgot your umbrella in case you stayed in our beautiful city.

This season starts a bit fast-paced. We had to cancel our long planned and long expected GIS session. This is the bad news and we are sorry for this. The good news is that we can propose another great event instead:

The Official Belgian Java 7 Launch Event in cooperation with Oracle Belgium and the BeJUG!

The details will be disclosed soon, but insofar we can tell you that Oracle plans to pamper us with extravagances, just as we deserve :-)

The launch event will be hosted the 21/09/11 in the official Oracle Belgium offices in Vilvoorde, which gives us a nice chance to see how the Oracle guys are actually working (and if they use Playstations and full body massage chairs like another company we visited last year ;-).

In any case, they will take care of our physical and intellectual well-being by providing food, drinks, interesting talks around Java 7 and the Java landscape in Belgium, inviting cool people and …pssst… offering quite a lot of goodies! And yes, the event is free and everybody is welcome!

We hope to see you all very soon! Stay tuned on this wave…

Details in the JUG wiki:
Wed 21.09.2011 – Official Java 7 Launch Event in cooperation with Oracle Belgium and BeJUG

Update:
- People on the meeting, Stephan Jansens (DEVOXX) and Dalibor Topic (Open JDK)
- Registration page will be online next week (12.9++).

Update 2:

All details on the wiki or in the post-it post above.

We would like to invite you to the last Brussels JUG session of this season. The evening will take place on Thursday, June 30, 2011 between 18:30 and 21:30, at the HU Brussels, 4nd floor, room 4107, Stormstraat 2 / 2, Rue d’Assaut.

Please note that we start at 18:30 and not at 19:00 like often before. The venue closes at 21:30, so we have enough time to enjoy a drink together after the conference. One MP3 player give-away awaits a lucky auditor.

This time, our guest is Steven Noels, which is one of the best-known NoSQL evangelists in our region. Beside his extended practical experience at Outerthought, he spoke at conferences like DEVOXX and at many Java User Groups in Europe.

More information can be found on our wiki:
http://www.brussels-jug.be/wiki/doku.php?id=events:2011_06_session1

Above we just spoke about the end of the JUG season 2010/2011. Yet, this is not entirely true. Though we do not plan regular sessions during the holiday period, we will organise a few special events for you. One will be the official introduction party of JAVA 7, organised in cooperation with the BeJUG and sponsored by Oracle. A second holiday event is in preparation as well. More details on all this later, so stay tuned :)

Give-away: 1 x MP3 player

Sponsors:

The Brussels JUG is sponsored by ISABEL N.V., the leading provider of solutions and services within the financial value chain for consumers, businesses and banks.