SESSION ABSTRACTS

19:00 Log4J, SpringShell and all that Jazz (or why bad things can happen to good software)

At the turn of the millennium IT organisations had about 60 days to fix software vulnerabilities. That meant from announcement to widespread exploitation took about two months. Fast forward to 2022 and, well, it’s not good. Zero day vulnerabilities have come and gone.

The world now has to learn how to deal with widespread exploitation happening before a fix is available. In this session we looked at Cybercrime and its bigger more dangerous cousin: Cyber-warfare.

Steve explored the drivers behind the radical shift, the software arsenal available and how and why developers are both target and unwitting helpers.

He gave quick demos of Log4Shell and SpringShell to help us understand the basics of how we make software vulnerable and, maybe, what we can do to reduce the risks. Steve believes that Governments are beginning to understand the threat as well and new ideas and directives are emerging. However these also have consequences for developers too.

The last 20 years has been a long wake-up call. The next 20 may see software development change beyond recognition.

20:15 Java JEP’dy

Whatever Java related role you have now it’s been an unusually stressful few months for many of us. In recognition of this (and to be honest just because it’s a fun thing). Sonatype has been working with the London Java Community, Microsoft and a great developer called Hanno Embregts to create a game we played.

You can guess from the title that this game is inspired by the original Jeopardy TV series.

The game consisted of a series of clues that our DubJUG attendees had to use to guess the question. For instance the clue “In Java 15 we said goodbye to this German rhinoceros”. might have the question “What is Nashorn”. Simple huh? Each successful answer scored points. Each wrong guess cost points. The winner took all.

All the clues were Java related. Some of the categories we included:

• Cryptic Keywords - Rryptic clues that match Java language reserved words

• Java through the Ages - History of Java of course

• Deprecated - Rarely used features

• Billy's cup of Joe - Clues about real Java tech from our very own Billy Korando

About Steve

Steve has been working on Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than 1 year old - that's a long time! His current role is Developer Advocate at Sonatype, the company who automates software supply chain security to accelerate developer innovation.

His credentials are equally long; Developer Advocate, Security Champion, DevOps practitioner (whatever that means), long time Java developer, leader and evangelist. JavaOne Rockstar, JSR leader and representation, committer on open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse and OpenJDK. 

Steve is a seasoned speaker and regular presenter at international conferences on technical and software engineering topics. We're lucky to have him come to meet us in Dublin!

Find him on Twitter @spoole167

About the Oracle Dublin Java User Group

The Oracle Dublin Java User Group, aka DubJUG, is Ireland's oldest JUG serving Java developers in Ireland. Since 2006, the Group has been bringing Java Champions, Java One Rock Stars, and Duke Award winners to Dublin for the benefit of our community of Java software professionals. Oracle is the current Headline Partner.

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DubJUG Partners

Our headline partner, Oracle is committed to offering choice, flexibility and a lower cost of computing for customers, and demonstrate this commitment by investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting a wide variety of open source technologies.

For further details on some of the open source technologies in Oracle Cloud please visit developer.oracle.com/opensource

Oracle Cloud is the industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud. It offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your own data centre. Oracle Cloud helps organisations drive innovation and business transformation by increasing business agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity.

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Stackand.Co enrich the professional lives of Java / Scala software professionals - with over 20 years experience in the Irish ICT market, they have helped many great people elevate their careers.

Perhaps they can do the same for you working with companies like this one?

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Version 1 is a trusted technology partner to major domestic and international customers across all industry sectors in the UK and Ireland. Their Java practice has grown to over 120 people over the last few years, and continues to grow. Many of their Java customers use a significant amount of open-source tools and technologies, and therefore Version 1 work with the community to hear other Java success stories, learn more about people’s experiences, and bring in Java experts and champions to get the latest on what’s going on in that space.”

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Global Payments Inc makes it easy for business to accept payments online, on mobile and in-app blending global coverage, local expertise and the best possible service to help drive business growth. Headquarted in Atlanta, they have a thriving technology division based on Sir John Rogerson's Quay.

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Equifax Technology Ireland is the Research and Development arm of global credit scoring organisation Equifax - it has recently opened a technology centre in the Bloodstone Building, Dublin 2.

Now looking for developers!

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GuruTeam delivers high end ICT learning, mentoring and consultancy services, in Ireland, the UK and worldwide. Their expert instructors formulate bespoke training to suit their clients and can deliver programmes on or offsite.

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Hazelcast delivers the System of Now™, an in-memory computing platform that empowers Global 2000 enterprises to deliver innovative, low-latency, data-centric applications

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Technology companies JetBrains, Synchronoss, FINEOS, and Solvers also support our community - find out more about them here.

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