GeekNight is back

Description

Geek night is a more or less regular fortnightly meeting to discuss new issues and work on open source software.

Topics
Floyd Marinescu will be talking about "Trends affecting the Future of Enterprise Java Development" in the TW UK office.

According to Floyd:
There are a number of trends occurring that are rapidly changing the way we
think about and develop Enterprise Java applications. This talk will give an
update on the most important trends affecting Java that you should be paying
close attention to, including:

• Annotations, Dependency Injection, and AOP
• Web 2.0 turning the internet into an application platform
• Domain Driven Design
• OSGi and the modern application server
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Open Source Java
• Java as a platform (not a language)
• The changing leadership in Java
• Open source business models

... and others that are changing the nature of software development in Java.
This talk will give an update on the most important trends affecting Java
that are currently growing and will become mainstream in 1-2 years that you
should be paying close attention to.

Attendees

• [AdewaleOshineye]
• [Mark Thomas]
• [Liam Clancy]
• Michael Jones
• Portia Tung
• Chris Bird
• Michael Patricios
• Ikenna Nwaiwu
• [Simon Brunning]
• Ryan Alexander

Directions