Wednesday, December 10/312007, 2008[]
For our December meeting we had a Maven 2 Workshop where we Maven-ized a simple Web application.
Friday, February 01, 2008
iBATIS, Spring AOP, AJAX and Other Tools in MTL User/Machine Management System. Jonathan Slate from the Microsystems Technology Lab gave an overview of the evolving MTL User/Machine Management System, highlighting the use of a variety of tools including iBATIS for object-relational mapping, Spring AOP for managing transactions and auditing, and Yahoo!'s YUI for DHTML stuff. We didn't really end up covering DWR for AJAX or Apache Commons Configuration for managing user preferences.
Wednesday, 11/28/2007
Java Compiler Plug-ins. Matthew Papi from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) gave us a demonstration of compiler plug-ins developed in CSAIL that detect null pointer errors, equality testing errors, and mutability errors at compile time, as well as a framework that permits programmers to write new plug-ins to check other properties. More information can be found on the JSR 308 Type-checkers and Framework page. You can also view the slides from the presentation in PDF format.
Wednesday, 10/31/2007
We had a tour of NetBeans 5.5, including information on how to use this popular IDE with Web Services, Acegi Security, and JMX. Wednesday, Held 12:00-1:30 pm in W92-199-Fenway
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