JEE Development

Tech Lead Tech Lead blog: blog: BSc UQ +MIT QUT BSc UQ +MIT QUT over 10 years experience in the IT industry over 10 years experience in the IT industry  Oracle, IBM, BNP Paribas  USA, UK, Brisbane Developer at Ephox since 2007 Developer at Ephox since 2007 Rob Dawson

Product Company Product Company Agile Development Agile Development Small Growing Exciting Company Small Growing Exciting Company Research and Development headed out of Brisbane Research and Development headed out of Brisbane Ephox

Boss Said so Boss Said so Cross platform Cross platform Enterprise Enterprise Google App Engine Google App Engine Why JEE

Googlefight

Another fight

Big Big ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE Lots of Open Source Frameworks Lots of Open Source Frameworks JEE

Lots of vendor support Lots of vendor support Won’t dissapear Won’t dissapear Slow to change can be good Slow to change can be good JEE Big

Standard stacks Standard stacks Centralised system admin Centralised system admin Scaling Scaling Easy to hire people Easy to hire people Enterprise

Pictures (architecture) Pictures (architecture) Simple Example Simple Example Enterprise Example Enterprise Example EditLive! in Enterprise EditLive! in Enterprise Navigating the Maze Navigating the Maze Plan

Play Framework

State? State? Communication between Nodes Communication between Nodes Share Nothing Share Nothing Scaling

Good Good  Big apps  Scaling  Enterprise Careful Careful  Size  Complexity  Use what you need JEE

Break

Blog Blog Struts 2 Struts 2 Hibernate Hibernate ant ant Simple Example

fred fred XML

Object Relational Mapping tool Object Relational Mapping tool Map objects to tables Map objects to tables XML + Annotations based XML + Annotations based Hibernate

MVC Tool for Web Apps MVC Tool for Web Apps Front Controller, actions and views Front Controller, actions and views Xml based configuration Xml based configuration Struts 2

Good Good  Lots of tasks Bad Bad  Xml  (author apologised)  80.net/Articles/Java/AntAndXML.html 80.net/Articles/Java/AntAndXML.html 80.net/Articles/Java/AntAndXML.htmlAnt

Blog Example

Lots of Code Created Lots of Code Created Need generation magic Need generation magic Refactoring Refactoring IDE Critical

IntelliJ IntelliJ Eclipse Eclipse NetBeans NetBeans IDEs

Starter frameworks Starter frameworks Open Source frameworks Open Source frameworks JEE Apps Tend to be complex

Starter Frameworks

 Rails/Django for Java  Development mode that works on source files  combination of conventions + compile time magic to give less typing Play! Framework

Roller - Enterprise Blog Roller - Enterprise Blog Packaged by Packaged by  Sun  IBM Huge Huge Open Source Blog

Roller Example

Plugins + customisation

Play! Yabe Demo

Can be hard Can be hard Google is your friend Google is your friend Choice not needed (experts choose for you)? Choice not needed (experts choose for you)? Choosing Frameworks

Documentation of Framework Documentation of Framework Try on a small project first Try on a small project first Active development Active development Useful/helpful community Useful/helpful community Complexity Complexity More on Choosing frameworks

SCALA SCALA JRuby JRuby Jython Jython JEE Not Just Java

Complete framework Complete framework Useful in Enterprise Useful in Enterprise JEE

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