Java User Group Chennai

On 21st of April,2010 JUG Chennai celebrated its annual event “Chennai Java Summit’12”. This event did draw a lot of attention and did bring in many Java Enthusiasts from across the city. Since this is an only event of its type in the city where the entire community gets together and draws in new members so as to make the community grow. There were sessions on various topics from some of the renowned developers across the world.This event was organized as a part of AIOUG(All India Oracle User Group), thus there were parallel tracks covering Oracle Technologies too. The speakers for CJS did include Dr.Venkat Subramaniam, Arun Gupta,Scott Davis, Venkatesh S and Rajesh S. Dr Venkat took a seminar on Scala(JVM Language) and did satisfy the curiosity of many enthusiasts who were in a mood to take up the language.This was followed by another session on benefits and uses of Test Based Development.

Arun Gupta enlightened the participants regarding the JEE 7 Platform. He also demonstrated how JEE 7 is shifting its focus towards cloud based services and how will it enable developers to write applications for any cloud based infrastructure. This was followed with another session based on JAX-RS2.0 where he demonstrated how successfully JAX-RS has taken over the development and implementation of RESTFul services. Scott Davis on the other hand showed how important is JavaScript for Java Developers. He also had a session where he demonstrated the power of CSS3.0 and all these sessions were for Java Developers and how to make them clever front end developer too.

There were other sessions too ranging for Quality Software Design to various Version control tools and their uses. CJS even provided us with a great networking opportunity where various developers across Chennai could meet each other and some of the most outstanding developers in the community.