Topic: Jerkey: An introduction to Kotlin DSLs using Jersey
One of the many strengths of Kotlin is the ease with it allows us to
write Domain Specific Languages. Perhaps you’ve seen Anko for Android,
or maybe TornadoFX for JavaFX and gotten the itch to write your own, or
maybe just wondered how its done. Wonder know more! In this session,
we’ll start from the beginning as we build Jerkey, Kotlin-based DSL for
building Jersey applications (Jersey + Kotlin = Jerkey ;). We’ll start
by covering the basics you need to understand in order write a DSL.
Next, we’ll spec out how we want the DSL to look and work, and, finally,
we’ll implement it and in doing so demonstrate not only the power of
Kotlin, but how well the Kotlin/Java interop really is by showing code
paths bouncing between Java and Kotlin code. fun willBeHadByAll() \{ }
Speaker Bio
Jason Lee is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with Oracle,
where he functions as his team’s architect. Prior to Oracle, he worked
for NetSuite and Sun Microsystems, both of which were acquired by Big
Red (so if you’re hoping to be acquired by Oracle, give him a call).
With over 21 years of experience, he has worked with a number of
programming languages (Java, C/C++, Javascript, PHP, Python, Delphi and
so on) in a variety of industries, with Java — and Java EE — being the
primary focus for well over a decade now. He found Kotlin a few years
ago, and has been trying to use it everywhere possible.
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