Java Magazine, Sept/Oct 2016
11 events Way to Build led by IBMs Dan Heidinga Topconf NOVEMBER 15 WORKSHOPS NOVEMBER 16 18 CONFERENCE TALLIN ESTONIA Java and the JVM reactive architectures sustainable development and big data highlight this years conference Couchbase Developer Advocate Laurent Doguin will present a practical example of RxJava and MATHEMA Software Senior Consultant Thomas Künneth will discuss current approaches to Java on mobile devices Java Enterprise Summit NOVEMBER 28 30 BERLIN GERMANY What does a state of the art enterprise Java application look like Which APIs are useful What are the roles of various web and JavaScript frameworks And how important is standard Java EE today These and many other questions will be discussed at this years Java Enterprise Summit A large training event is held concurrently with the Micro Services Summit hosting 24 power workshops with well known German microservices and enterprise Java experts No English page available ConFoo DECEMBER 5 7 VANCOUVER CANADA This multitechnology conference for web developers features sessions on Java and JVM Scheduled topics include Java 9 caching machine learning models with Java and Spark based tools Docker and Java and writing better streams with Java 8 Special Note Event Cancellation QCon Rio OCTOBER 5 7 RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL The organizers report Faced with an unstable political and economic environment we considered it prudent to cancel our edition of QCon 2016 We emphasize that this decision does not affect the preparation of QCon São Paulo 2017 Have an upcoming conference youd like to add to our listing Send us a link and a description of your event four months in advance at javamag_ us@ oracle com ORACLE COM JAVAMAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2016 event recap JVM Language Summit 2016 For the past nine years Oracle and earlier Sun has been sponsoring a small gathering of Java experts whose primary work is on the JVM The roughly 150 attendees gather to discuss the JVM and JVM languages Unlike most conferences at this summit there is only a single track attended by all the participants Over three days many sessions of surpassing interest are presented All of them are recorded The videos for the 2016 summit are posted on YouTube This years summit in early August saw particular focus on Java 9 and post Java 9 releases As for JVM languages you can find videos of sessions on implementation details and upcoming features for Kotlin and Scala And there are sessions that focus on standalone technical topics immutable collections bytecodes use of Intel vector instructions and so forth While the sessions are technically demanding you do not need deep knowledge of the JVM to follow along However as youll see in the videos you do need some fluency with the terminology of JVM functions and features The conference is held in July or August at Oracles campus in Santa Clara California While attendance is intentionally kept low developers working on JVM topics can apply to attend on the conferences home page Attendance is generally opened 60 days before the next summit begins The home page also includes links to the videos of sessions from previous summits Enjoy the deep dives Andrew Binstock
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