JavaCamp4
I spent last evening in the Paris google office which gladly hosted the javacamp4, a barcamp dedicated to java technology.
They were two sessions of around 1 hour each.
First sessions were : cloud computing, html5, spring 3 and mda.
Second sessions were : tdd, ddd and jquery vs gwt
I went to the cloud computing session, as I have a project of putting a java webapp on the clouds I wanted to share my views on it and also learn from others experiences. Unfortunately I was the only one there working on a real life project. Discussion was good, although more aimed at describing what are the current cloud computing offers : infrastructure ( google for your domain) and amazon s3, hosting gandi, wc2, azure and application: appengine.
We did have a refreshing talk on what could be be the future IDE, David describe it well here.
Good session overall, (roti 3)
I then join the talk titled: “jquery vs prototype vs gwt: which help produce the most industrial code. ” leaded by Eric.
I believe javascript code is difficult to industrialize, who unit test javascript code, let alone continuously build it ? They were suggestion on using selenium, which is good testing although it’s more integration testing than unit testing. But you can’t get rid of javascript if you’re going to write some nice web UI. Plain GWT on the other hand as good reputation when it comes to javascript, since you’re not going to see a line of javascript if you don’t want to. But the way GWT application are written are more “Application” than “Web Site”. Crawler problem arise among other things.
The talk ended is the unsatisfying conclusion that JQuery is probably the cleanest and easiest way to go, but you got to know Javascript…
Pretty good session, I learned quite a few things. (roti 4)
We were numerous to tweet during the evening, check this twitter search to have a feeling of the evening.
The buffet following was nice, and discussion went well with all the participants. In this kind of events, the after sessions discussion are at least as important as the sessions themselves.
A very nice evening, I definitely looking forward to the next camp.
Thank to the organizers, Luc & Philippe
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