Keynote Speakers:

Neal Ford, Author, Art of Java Web Development; Software Architect, ThoughtWorks

Keynote: Productive Programmer: On the Lam from the Furniute Police

Presenting: Intro to JRuby

Neal Ford is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the CTO at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Groovy, functional languages, Scheme, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 600 talks. Neal is the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques, JBuilder 3 Unleashed, and Art of Java Web Development. 

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Rod Johnson, Creator, Spring Framework; Author, Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development and more

Keynote: How Spring Fits into the Java Landscape

Presenting: Spring for the Advanced Java Developer

Rod Johnson is the father of Spring and is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE. The sequel, J2EE without EJB, has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development.

Rod currently serves in the JCP on the Expert Groups defining the Java EE 6, Servlet 2.4 and JDO 2.0 specifications. His status as a leader in the Java community has been recognized through his invitation to Sun's Java Champions program. Rod continues to be actively involved in client projects at SpringSource, as well as Spring development, writing and evangelism.

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Jon Kern, Co-Author, The Agile Manifesto; Software Architect and Agile Manifestor, Immuexa

Keynote: The Keys to Agile Software Development

Presenting: Just Enough Early Architecture to Guide Development

Outspoken software engineering evangelist, Agile Manifesto co-author, speaker, and author, Jon Kern's experience is wide-ranging across varied problem domains and technology platforms. From jet engine R&D (he's an aerospace engineer, after all) to real-time flight simulator design and development, from TogetherSoft's and OptimalJ's commercially successful modeling tools to building IBM's Manufacturing Execution System software - Jon has seen and done a lot. Peter Coad recruited Jon in September 1999, to help launch TogetherSoft. Jon was a driving force behind the success of the company and its products prior to its sale to Borland. Jon's a nut when it comes to modeling effectively (focused on the business), building and architecting consistently, and doing it in an agile manner to deliver results. John co-authored Java Design with his long-time mentor, Peter Coad, and worked on a few other books where he published his lightweight development processes.

 

Breakout Session Speakers:

Emmanuel Bernard, Lead Developer, Hibernate Search; Spec lead, JSR-303: Bean Validation

Presenting: Bean Validation and Hibernate Search: Finding Data, You Deserve Better

Emmanuel Bernard is the Lead Developer of Hibernate Annotations and HibernateEntityManager, two key projects on top of Hibernate Core implementing the JavaPersistence(tm) specification. He also leads Hibernate Search and Hibernate Validator. Emmanuel is a member of the JPA 2.0 expert group and the spec lead of JSR-303: BeanValidation. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and JUGs, and the co-author of Hibernate Search in Action. After graduating from Supelec (French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel hasspent a few years in the retail industry as developer and architect where he started to be involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team in 2003 and is now a lead developerat JBoss, a division of Red Hat.

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Ron Bodkin, Project Lead, Glassbox

Presenting: Troubleshooting and Monitoring Using Glassbox

Ron Bodkin leads the open source Glassbox application performance troubleshooting project. He also is the Chief Software Architect for Quantcast Corporation, where he is responsible for the design of Quantcast's advanced data processing and real-time software operations.

Previously, Ron was the founder of New Aspects of Software, providing consulting on Aspect-Oriented Programming and enterprise architecture for Java. He also led the first implementation projects and training efforts for the AspectJ group at Xerox PARC. Prior to the AspectJ group, Ron was a founder and the CTO of C- bridge, an enterprise application consultancy that grew to 900 people and held a successful IPO in 1999.

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Bill Burke, Chief Architect, JBoss, Inc.; Project Lead, JBoss RESTEasy project

Presenting: Putting Java to REST: The New Java + RESTful Web Services Specification and Scaling RESTful Services with JAX-RS

Bill Burke is a Chief Architect at the JBoss division of Red Hat, Inc. He is JBoss' representative on the JAX-RS specification and leads the JBoss RESTEasy project. Bill is co-author of Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 and has numerous other online and in-print publications about REST, EJB, JAX-RS, and AOP. Bill is also a member of the EJB3 expert group.

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Eugene Ciurana, Director of Systems Infrastructure, LeapFrog Enterprises

Track Chair: Architecture

Presenting: Mission-Critical Cloud/Enterprise Hybrid Applications Case Study

Eugene Ciurana is the Director of Systems Infrastructure at LeapFrog Enterprises, the largest educational toy company in the United States. He is also a contributing editor to TheServerSide.com. In 2006, Eugene led the first-time adoption of Linux and other open-source technologies at Wal-Mart Stores Information Systems Division as chief liaison between Walmart.com Global and the ISD Technology Council.

Eugene has contributed to Java, Linux, and OS X open-source projects and has architected main line of business applications, embedded platforms, and real-time systems for the largest companies in the world, including Wal-Mart, Bank One/Chase, National Oilwell Varco, Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Univex/Celanese, and Nexis/Lexis. He's advocated or contributed code for such projects as OpenOffice.org, the Jetty Web server, awke.org, the One Laptop Per Child project, OpenLaszlo, the Mule ESB, Ubuntu, Apache Axis and others.

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Frank Cohen, Founder, PushToTest; Author, FastSOA

Track Chair: Tools and Techniques

Presenting: Meet-Up for Selenium, HtmlUnit and Other Test Tools and Identifying Browser Problems in Ajax Applications

Through his speaking, writing and consulting, Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ajax, and Web services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Jackson Labs, eBay, General Motors, TIBCO, BEA, Microsoft and other Fortune 1000 companies. Frank is the author of several books, including FastSOA, the way to use native XML technology to build scalable service oriented architecture, and Java Testing and Design.

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Chris Custine, Committer, Apache ServiceMix; PMC Member, Apache Directory Server project

Presenting: Apache ServiceMix 4 and OSGi

Chris Custine is a Software Architect with Progress Software Corporation and works on the FUSE open source product line. He is the founder of Organic Element and does consulting on open source middleware strategies in large enterprise settings. In addition to being a committer on Apache ServiceMix and a committer and PMC member on the Apache Directory Server project, Chris is dedicated to developing, promoting, and evangelizing enterprise class open source software from the Apache Software Foundation. In addition to his open source work, Chris is a veteran developer of integration middleware with a long history of experience in the financial services sector.

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Glen Daniels, Director of Java Platforms; WSO2; VP, Web Services at the Apache Software Foundation

Presenting: To Mediate is the Message - the Evolution of Indirection

Glen Daniels has over 20 years of industry experience, writing code, leading teams, and building standards.  He has been deeply involved with Web Services since 2000, and spearheaded Apache's Axis project.  He serves as WSO2's Director of Java Platforms and VP, Web Services at the Apache Software Foundation. Glen is the co-author of the award-winning Building Web Services with Java.

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Rob Davies, Director of Engineering, FUSE

Presenting: Creating High Performance, Massively Scalable Messaging Solutions with Apache ActiveBlaze

Rob Davies is the Director of Engineering for FUSE, the open source division of Progress Software. FUSE delivers certified, productized and supported versions of Apache ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel for use in enterprise IT organizations. With over 20 years experience architecting solutions and developing products for the telecommunications and finance industries, Rob is focusing on developing the next generation of open source middleware products for the Progress Software Corporation.

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Scott Davis, Editor-in-Chief, aboutGroovy.com; Author, Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and more

Presenting: JSON in the Real World, The Amazing Groovy Weight-loss Plan, DSLs in Groovy: Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say and Atom: From Blogging to Data Syndication

Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project). Scott is the Editor-in-Chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information Web site that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. He also writes a regular column for IBM DeveloperWorks titled 'Mastering Grails.' Scott's books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work.

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Jeremy Deane, Technical Architect, Collaborative Consulting

Presenting: Resource-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Jeremy Deane is a Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting with over 12 years of software engineering experience in leadership positions. His areas of expertise include Resource-Oriented Architecture, Performance Engineering and Software Process Improvement. In addition, he is an accomplished speaker and frequent contributor to the SOA Institute Bulletin.

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Dan Diephouse, Software Architect, MuleSource, Co-Founder, Apache CFX

Presenting: RESTful SOA with Mule

Dan Diephouse is a Software Architect at MuleSource, the company behind the open source Mule integration framework. Here he is focused on building and helping others build open source web services/SOA solutions such as Mule Galaxy, an open source Governance platform. He is a co-founder of the Web services framework Apache CXF, a founder of several other projects including XFire, SXC, and Jettison, and participates in several others whenever possible.

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Hans Dockter, Founder, Gradle open source build system

Presenting: Leveraging Groovy for Building Java Applications (Gradle)

Hans Dockter is the founder and project lead of Gradle, an open source build system. He works as an independent consultant and as a trainer for Skills Matter, a UK based training company. Hans teaches Patterns, TDD and Domain Driven Design. In the past years he has worked as a Senior Developer for Krugle and Volkswagen. In the early days he was also a committer for the JBoss project and founded the JBoss-IDE.

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Patrick Farley, Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks

Presenting: Meta-Programming with JRuby

Patrick Farley is a lead consultant with ThoughtWorks where he has served as a technical lead, iteration manager, and developer on projects from forty members to four. He has recently spoken on agile process pitfalls and on Ruby Meta-programming and Ruby Internals. Currently he's keeping busy exploring C# 3.0 language features by day, and JVM language upstarts by night.

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Andy Frank, Co-Author, Fan programming language

Presenting: Sensible Interop Programming with Fan

Andy Frank is the co-author of the Fan Programming Language, an object-oriented, functional language designed to cross compile to both the Java and .NET platforms. His focus is user interfaces on both the desktop and the Web. Andy is a co-founder of SkyFoundry, started in January 2009 to provide cloud-based applications using Fan. He spent the previous 6 years writing software for Tridium.

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David Geary, Author, Google Web Toolkit Solutions and more

Presenting: GWT: An Introduction and GWT; Advanced

David Geary is a prominent author, speaker and consultant who wrote the best-selling books for Java's component frameworks: Swing (Graphic Java) and JSF (Core JSF). David has written eight Java books, including Google Web Toolkit Solutions, served on the JSTL and JSF Expert Groups, was the second Struts committer, and wrote questions for Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. David is president of Clarity Training, Inc.

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Jeff Genender, Member, JSR-316; Apache committer; Author, Professional Apache Tomcat 6 and more

Track Chair: SOA

Presenting: The Rules of SOA - A Road to a Successful SOA Implementation

Jeff Genender is a Java Open Source consultant specializing in SOA and enterprise service implementations. He is the author of Professional Apache Tomcat 6, Professional Apache Geronimo, and Enterprise Java Servlets, as well as an Apache member and committer on several projects including ServiceMix, CXF, Geronimo, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, Mina, and Open Terracotta. Jeff serves on JSR-316 Java EE6 expert group committee.

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Daniel Gredler, Committer, HtmlUnit and Tapestry

Co-Presenting: HtmlUnit: An Efficient Approach to Testing Web Applications with Marc Guillemot

Daniel Gredler is a Senior Software Developer at DHL Global Mail, where he focuses on custom shipping solutions. He is a committer to the HtmlUnit and Apache Tapestry projects, and has contributed to a number of other open source projects. In his free time, Daniel enjoys reading, metal detecting, and writing conference bios about himself.

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Marc Guillemot, Lead Developer, HtmlUnit and Canoo WebTest

Co-Presenting: HtmlUnit: An Efficient Approach to Testing Web Applications with Daniel Gredler

Marc Guillemot is an independent software contractor living in Germany. He is the lead developer of the open source projects HtmlUnit and Canoo WebTest, as well as committer to the NekoHTML and Groovy projects. Marc is the author of many magazine articles and speaks at conferences worldwide.

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Rob Harrop, Lead Engineer, SpringSource dm Server; Member, JSR-255 Expert Group

Presenting: Building Server Platforms with OSGi and Equinox

Rob Harrop is a respected speaker, author, entrepreneur and technologist.  He is a member of the JCP and is involved in the JSR-255 Expert Group for JMX 2.0.  Rob is the author of five books, including Pro Spring, a widely acclaimed, comprehensive resource on the Spring Framework.  Rob serves as the lead engineer of SpringSource dm Server.  Prior to joining SpringSource, he co-founded and work as the lead developer for a UK software company, Cake Solutions Limited.

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Dave Johnson, Social Software Architect; Sun's App Platform group; Author, RSS and Atom in Action

Presenting: Socialize Your Web Apps with OpenSocial

Dave Johnson is a software developer, author and blogger. After developing and releasing the Roller blog server as open source software, Dave joined Sun Microsystems to work full time for Sun's blogs.sun.com corporate blogging site. 

Dave is an Apache Software Foundation member, PMC Chair of the Apache Roller project and author of RSS and Atom in Action. He currently works as a Social Software Architect in Sun's App Platform group. His latest work involves Project SocialSite, a set of Widgets and Web Services that you can use to add Social Networking features to existing Web sites and applications.

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Heath Kesler, Open Source Software Evangelist

Presenting: Navigating the SOA Mine Field: Optimized Application Architectures

Heath Kesler is an open source software evangelist, developer and architect; he has created Java architectures for large scalable, high transaction load systems for such companies as Health Language, LeapFrog Enterprises, AT&T, Timera, and IBM. Heath has been a team lead in many project recovery implementations, helping to rescue systems on the verge of collapse. He was recently involved with the implementation of the customer account creation and third-party integration or mission-critical systems for the largest educational products provider in the United States.

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Dan Kulp, Software Developer, Apache CXF; FUSE Services Framework, Progress Software

Presenting: Securing Web Services with Apache CFX

Dan Kulp is a Software Fellow at Progress Software and a Member and VP at the Apache Software Foundation. He is most well-known for his active participation and leadership in the Apache CXF open source Web services project. At Progress he is responsible for the development of the FUSE Services Framework open source product, which is based on Apache CXF. Prior to working with FUSE, Dan worked at several start-ups including Watershed Technologies, Athena Design, and Sundial Systems.

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Amanda Laucher, Independent Consultant

Co-Presenting: Functional Programming with Ted Neward

Amanda Laucher is a Software Developer/Architect focusing on Microsoft technologies. She has been speaking at conferences and user groups all over the United States, and spreading her love of some of the lesser known programming languages. When not speaking or developing leading-edge solutions for clients, Amanda spends time advocating women in science and technology.

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David Lloyd, Software Engineer, JBoss; Creator, JBoss Marshalling Framework

Presenting: A General-Purpose Object Marshalling Framework

David Lloyd is a Software Engineer at JBoss, where he works primarily on JBoss Remoting and its various supporting projects. He created the JBoss Marshalling framework. David is an unashamed Linux fanatic and has been a contributor to open source software since 2001. In 2006, he jumped at the chance to join JBoss to work on the jBPM project. However, he had long had an interest in remote invocation, and could not resist the opportunity to move to the JBoss Remoting team to help develop their next-generation Remoting framework in 2007, where he remains today.

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Andrew Lombardi, Contributor, Wicket

Presenting: Architecting Applications Using Apache Wicket

Andrew Lombardi is a professional Java developer and an enlightened entrepreneur. Having such a deep affinity for the computer model, at the age of 17 he began to study metaphysics and delved deeply into Neuro Linguistic Programming and other mind technologies, and he went on to become certified as an NLP Trainer, Master Hypnotherapist and Time Line Therapy practitioner. Using all of his accumulated skills, Andrew began his consulting business, Mystic Coders, LLC. Since the inception of Mystic in 2000, Andrew has been growing the skills and experience of his team and client roster. Mystic's current and expanding team of 7 are experts in their fields and include: JEE, SOA, integration with 3rd party platforms, server architecture and interactive systems. He's a contributor to Wicket and other open-source Java projects.

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Josh Long, Senior Software Engineer, Wells Fargo

Presenting: Enterprise Application Integration, and Spring

Josh Long is as a Senior Software Engineer and Architect specializing in Java integration and development. Josh has been working on computers for most of his life, and still pursues them avidly. He is an author, open source enthusiast, contributor and blogger. He contributed to the Apache Tapestry project, helped create a Maven archetype for J2ME, and maintains a project on Google Code. Josh actively participates in the Phoenix Java User Group.

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Kito Mann, Editor-in-Chief, JSF Central; Author, JavaServer Faces in Action

Track Chair: Frameworks

Presenting: JSF 2.0 in Action and Open Source Portals: Free Application Infrastructure

Kito D. Mann is Editor-in-Chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action. He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy.

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Ted Neward, Interoperability Expert; Author, Effective Enterprise Java and more

Track Chair: Language

Co-Presenting: Functional Programming with Amanda Laucher and The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala

Ted Neward is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration, back-end enterprise software systems, languages, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing. He is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, a worldwide consultancy, and specializes in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops.

Ted is the author or co-author of several books, including Effective Enterprise Java, F# In a Nutshell, Language-Oriented Programming in .NET, C# In a Nutshell, SSCLI Essentials, Server-Based Java Programming, and a contributor to several technology journals. Ted is also a Microsoft MVP for Architecture, BEA Technical Director, INETA speaker, frequent conference speaker, and a member of various JSRs.

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Robert Schneider, Contributor, The Big SOA Grid; Principal, Think 88 Ventures, LLC

Presenting: Agile Web Service and REST Service Testing with soapUI

Robert Schneider is a Principal at Think 88 Ventures, LLC. He's a senior consultant, instructor, and published IT author with more than 15 years of experience leading successful IT initiatives and providing technical and architectural expertise for complex IT solutions.

Robert has written five books and numerous articles on SOA and high-performance database applications and implementations. He is currently working on a new book dedicated to SOA Governance and is a regular contributor to The Big SOA Grid, a Web site providing current data relating to WS-* specifications.

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Nathaniel Schutta, Co-Creator, Taconite Framework; Co-author, Foundations of Ajax

Presenting: DSLs in JavaScript

Nathaniel Schutta is a Senior Software Engineer with extensive experience developing Java EE–based Web applications. He is a long-time member of the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group, and believes that if the user can't figure out your application, then you've done something wrong. Along with his user interface work, Nathaniel is the co-creator of the open source Ajax framework Taconite, has contributed to two corporate Java frameworks, has developed training material, and has led several study groups. Nathaniel is the co-author of the best-selling book, Foundations of Ajax.

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Jason Whaley, Build/Release and Infrastructure Engineer, Leapfrog Enterprises

Presenting: Rapid Large-Scale SOA - Connected Products at Leapfrog Enterprises

Jason Whaley is a continuous integration expert who has worked in multiple roles for several public and private companies, and government institutions. He is presently a Build/Release and Infrastructure Engineer at Leapfrog Enterprises and specializes in build systems, continuous integration, source code management, and deployment automation for a large variety of Java-based projects. His other specialties include Web development and system integration. Jason recently received a Masters of Information Technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he was a lead researcher in collaborative filtering and recommendations engines.