Java 8 EE - A Drill Down

Ahead of the long-awaited release of Java 8 EE, Oracle Belgium's Server Side Software Evangelist. David Delabassee visited Dublin to explain the features to be released. It was a great opportunity for our members to ask questions at the coal face.

About David

David Delabassée is a Software Evangelist working for Oracle; his focus is Server-side Java including Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition). Prior to Oracle, David spent a decade at Sun Microsystems focusing on Java end-to-end, i.e. from the smart card to the high end servers. In his various roles, David has been involved in numerous Java projects since the early days of this technology.

David lives in Belgium. In his spare time, he enjoys playing video games with his daughter and tinkering with technologies such as Home Automation, 3D printers, electronics and pinballs.

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Java EE 8 – A Drill Down

Quite a few things have changed since the original Java EE 8 proposal. In this session David discussed what Java EE 8 will be about.

He covered in detail the new capabilities that are slated for inclusion in the Java EE platform, such as - JAX-RS 2.1’s new Reactive client API - Servlet 4.0 HTTP/2 support - CDI 2.0 Asynchronous events - Various Bean Validation 2.0’s improvements - A new JSON Binding API and a new Security API, etc.

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About the Dublin Java User Group

The Dublin Java User Group, aka DubJUG, is Ireland's oldest JUG serving Java developers in Ireland. We are also the only independent JUG in the Dublin area.

Throughout 2016, we enriched the professional lives of our community members with first-class presentations by international speakers from Australia, England, Germany, Holland, Israel, and the United States.

We've learnt about Scala / Akka / Software Design / Reactive Architecture / Microservices / Robustness of Software / BDD / TDD / IoT Building Blocks from speakers such as John Ferguson Smart, Jan Molak, / Mirko Ebert (OTTO) / Tim Berglund (Datastax) / Heiko Seeberger (CodeCentric) / Iain Hull (Workday) Tom Peck (Lightbend) / and lots of local speakers such as Brian Matthews. Did you get on camera??? PHOTO's

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TechMeetup.space is a collaboration between Dublin's tech user and meetup groups. It provides an intimate and central venue which makes it easily accessible for members to come along and hear presentations by the very best tech evangelists available.

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