Matthew McCullough from No Fluff Just Stuff will giving his Open Source Debugging Presentation. Open Source is not just a suite of libraries you consume within your application, but now reaches into the space of tools to help you troubleshoot and improve your applications. This session will quickly survey a wide range of tools across the Java, Networking, Filesystem, SOAP, REST, HTML, CSS and JavaScript realms. We'll look at applications such as VisualVM, which help you analyze your heap and garbage collection cycles of both local and remote applications. Performance and load testing tools such as JMeter will expose bottlenecks, threading, and scalability concerns of everything from Java modules to Web Apps (even ones that don't use any Java). Learn how web service tools such as SOAPui and TCPMon allow you to inspect your SOAP and REST calls at the data structure level, and how Firefox Poster lets you test web services right from the browser. And when only a raw look will do, we can always fall back on the venerable TCPDump. This tool-centric presentation will expose developers to approaches to inspect, debug, tune and troubleshoot Java desktop apps, language-neutral web apps, and framework-neutral web services using Open Source Tools. Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of web services, core Java, web application design. Matthew McCullough is an energetic 12 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a member of the JCP, reviewer for technology publishers including O'Reilly, author of the DZone Maven RefCard, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His experience includes successful J2EE, SOA, and Web Service implementations for real estate, financial management, and telecommunications firms, and several published open source libraries. Matthew jumps at opportunities to evangelize and educate teams on the benefits of open source. His current focuses are Cloud Computing, Maven, iPhone, Distributed Version Control, and OSS Tools. Matthew resides in Denver with his beautiful wife and baby daughter, who all are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado offers. Bonus! There will be a draw for a pass to the 2009 Western Canada Java Software Symposium (Calgary Sept 25th - 27th) as well as 2 NFJS laptop bags. Details 5:00 PM, Wed Jun 10th Fifth Ave Place West Tower 2nd floor conference room (Northwest corner) 237 - 4th Avenue Southwest |