Kenyatta is a mild mannered fellow with a love for technology. Kenyatta has 11 years of relevant real world experience. He works for MBO Partners in Edmond, OK. He lives in Oklahoma City with his lovely wife and three children.
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Spring Roo is an exciting new rapid application development framework. It slices and dices and packs all the punches of frameworks like Rails and Grails but the end result is pure Java. In this presentation, we will be discussing what Spring Roo is and demonstrate it’s how it can be used to trim your development time and make your code more readable.
Adam Farlee is a Sr. Software Engineer/Architect working for Objectstream, Inc. on internal applications development. He has 25 years of experience in Software Development and is currently working on web development under the Rational Unified Process and Agile methodologies. He has spent his career acting as a proponent for new technologies as they became available, starting with RPG II and working all the way through Java.
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The Apache Maven Project is a software project management and comprehension tool. It has introduced a greatly simplified the build process and stresses Convention versus Configuration. Maven defines projects via a Project Object Module and uses that information for automated builds and deployments. It is highly extensible via plugins, but performs most common build tasks straight out of the box. This presentation will perform a high level demo of Maven, then will discuss the new Maven 3.0 beta release.
I took a few minutes to update the OKCJUG Sponsorship Information page so that it reflects what we are actually doing for sponsors in 2010. Please check it out, and if you’re interested in sponsoring you can always email me to discuss it directly.
We appreciate our sponsors, their generosity is allowing us do a lot more for the java community in OKC.
On that note, we have two 2010 Annual Sponsors already. If you don’t know about them, ObjectStream and MBO Partners are both local companies who use java.
ObjectStream: 2010 Annual Sponsor
MBO Partners: 2010 Annual Sponsor
