This time, the ULB provided us with a nice conference room – 120 seats and a projector – so everybody had much room to feel comfortable :)

Before the session started, John Rizzo pulled some strings and managed to provide refreshments of Belgian style from the Cercle Informatique. The conference officially took-off with John telling us the history of the Black Belt Factory: Once upon a time… Nicolas, present as surprise guest, completed the story with occasional ‘tool tips’. The session ended, much later than initially planned, in an animated discussion about the technologies used to implement the factory (cf. Vaadin}>).

John Rizzo about Java Black Belt (and a bit of Vaadin)

Next on stage: Enterprise Content Management (in the Java World) by Christophe Lombart.

Christophe started the session introducing the general concepts of ECM, presenting goals and risks and giving a brief market overview. Next, Christophe launched the more technical part of his presentation by exposing the different standards. After introducing the Java JCR API, the session ended with a very (inter-)active discussion and a demonstration of the Java JCR API using (and as drive-by the OSGi integration of) Apache Sling.

Christophe Lombart on ECM – 'Everything is Content'

John and Christophe were both very passionate and managed greatly to pass this passion to the public. The result was a familiar ambiance, a lot of questions and much vivid discussions with an audience that proved having already a very high level knowledge of today’s ECM technologies.

In order to conclude to evening in glory, a part of the group continued the business celebrating the 3rd Halftime, enjoying the warm summer night having a beer and a snack.

Geek's are around

A warm summer night, Java and a fresh beer

More:
BruJUG Session Wiki (speaker presentation, more pictures)
BruJUG announcement
Christophe on Twitter, Objectif-Web, Presentation Slides
Black Belt Factory

Christophe Lombart – Document & Content Management Ecosystem – A gentle Introduction to the ECM Technologies

Date: Thursday, June 24th 2010.

Time: Open as of 18:30, conference start is 19:00. Conference end 22:00.

Place: ULB, FORUM F of the PLAINE campus (see below)

Registration: Required.

Admission price: None, Free Entry

Seats: 40

Registrations: 31

Agenda:

• 1. 19:00 – Hello World
• 2. Talk 1: (20 min) – John Rizzo about the Black Belt Factory and the partnership with the Brussels JUG
• 3. Talk 2: (90++ min) – Christophe Lombart – The Document & Content Management Ecosystem, a gentle introduction to the ECM technologies
• 4. Small Talk
• 5. System.exit(0);
• ∞. Third Halftime

Last time, the 3rd Halftime was quite a success and we propose to repeat the experience. We will certainly find a nice bar near the ULB to have a drink. So please don’t be shy and join the group after the session for a chat.

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Event Sponsor:

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(Conquering darkness with knowledge)

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Speakers and Talks:

Main: Christophe Lombart – The Document & Content Management Ecosystem, a gentle introduction to the ECM technologies

Christophe has more than 16 years of IT experience and is currently focusing on technical analysis, software architecture, teaching & development around content and web technologies. He is also very active in the open-source community and committer on the Apache Sling and the Apache Jackrabbit projects. Moreover, he is one of the founder of the Objectif-Web project.

This presentation is an introduction on the main ECM concepts and technologies . We will start with an ECM definition and give information on the most popular use cases. The goal of this first part is to highlight the ECM features & challenges. We will also discuss about some interesting Web 2.0 concepts that could be used in a content oriented application. Finally, we will make a market overview and give more information of the newest “content technology” standards.

The second part of the presentation will provide more technical information on content repository. In order to understand its great benefit, we will compare it with a classic file system and a relational database. We will also provide more details on the JCR specification, which is certainly changing the ECM market. JCR stands for Content Repository API for Java, a specification that has been developed under the Java Community Process as JSR-170 (Version 1) and as JSR-283 (Version 2, main Java package is javax.jcr).

At the end, we will see the ECM standards in action within a simple demo based on Jackrabbit (the content repository provided by the Apache Sofware Foundation).

Teaser:

This will not be the last time Christophe will speak for us. Besides his presentation about ECM and introduction to the “Content Repository API for Java” and Jackrabbit, he proposes to inaugurate us into the clockwork of the Apache Software Foundation by explaining us how the ASF is organized and why its projects are always a great success.  Moreover he wants us to step beyond the usual “Struts/Flex or whatever – Spring – Hibernate – RDBMS” stack for building web and content based applications by seeing other possibilities in the Java World. And of course there are … More about this after the summer holidays!

Short: John Rizzo about the Black Belt Factory and the partnership with the Brussels JUG

John Rizzo is co-founder and CEO of Black Belt Factory. Foremost, he will introduce the operation mode and the purposes of the BBF community learning site and then he will explain in which way you as JUG members will be able to benefit from our partnership with the BBF.

More information about the event, the talks and the speakers are available in our Wiki Space.

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Conference Place:

With the previous conference we celebrated the “Geeky Style” at GooglePlex. This session we will celebrate “Wisdom and Lore”! We are proud to announce that we are invited by the ULB, the Free University of Brussels, to hold our upcoming meet-up on their campus.

The session will be celebrated in the FORUM F of the auditoria of the PLAINE campus. The campus is easy to access by public transport and parking places are available as well.

The address is: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus de la Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles

Public transport arriving at or near the campus: buses 71, 72, 95 – trams 23, 24, 25 – Metro, line 1A, station Delta. We plan to visit the place before the conference in order to see how we can make the access as easy and clear as possible. Please stay tuned (on our web page).

Links: Campus map, General access map, Public transport access, Google Map