Rapid Web Development with NetBeans & EJB3 - Wed May 9th

One of the (claimed) benefits of Ruby on Rails is the rapid development time for web applications. The canonical example (see the March 2006 Meeting , for example) is a simple CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) application for rows in a database table.

In this presentation Tom will demonstrate that you don't have to give up your code-completing, error-detecting-at-compile-time IDE in order to rapidly develop web applications. Tom will use Sun's NetBeans IDE to develop a simple CRUD application and show just how easy it is, and how much more powerful and "enterprisey" than RoR. Other enabling technologies for this are the JSF Web Application Framework and the (relatively new) EJB3 specification, as well as some extra modules for NetBeans.

Our Speaker:

Tom Malaher is a software developer/architect who has worked for a variety of different clients over the years, both as an employee and as an independent consultant. Along the way Tom has used a variety of different languages from APL to Prolog, but mostly C, Perl and Java.

Tom has been using Java since the "Juggling Duke Applet" days in the mid 90's. Most of his projects have been web-based (e-commerce, content management, portals) with a few forays into thick-client GUIs.

Currently Tom is employed by TELUS's IT Outsourcing organization, involved with self-service portals integrating various applications..

Details
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Fifth Ave Place
West Tower
2nd floor conference room (Northwest corner)
237 - 4th Avenue Southwest