400 developers brought together @ Siliconindia Java Conference

By Juby Thomas, SiliconIndia | Wednesday, 03 November 2010, 17:17 IST

Bangalore: Many has a doubt on the necessity to know what companies' developers are up to, including what tools they're using? Developers are the early adopters, and the decisions they make can have a big impact on a business' IT capabilities and strategies for years to come. By Understanding the need of the hour Siliconindia has organized java conference for the Bangalorean developers and architects. During the conference, Rajgopal Kishore, Vice President & Global Head of Business Intelligence, HCL Technologies said that the major causes of performance failures are not understanding performance requirements, lack of setting expectations early enough and there is also a need for understanding, explaining trade-offs between performance and time. Despite lacking the support of big businesses, in recent times technologies like Enterprise JavaBean grew in popularity and are adopted more and more by businesses who had become disillusioned with EJBs. Sangeetha S, Principal - Education & Research - E-Commerce Research Labs, Infosys Technologies spoke about how the latest specification further simplifies EJB development , New EJB features such as Singletons, asynchronous invocations, and calendar-based automatic timers and How EJB 3.1 works well with other Java EE 6 technologies, such as Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) and JAX-RS. "This conference provided an excellent opportunity to learn from experts in leading companies like Infosys, IBM, HCL, eBay and others. It is a rare opportunity for the developers and architects to enhance their practical skills. The Language track gave an insight on emerging features of the Java language and provided in-depth expert recommendations on the use of Java and complementary languages in daily practice." opined one of the participants. Recently, Oracle has described how Java will continue to grow as the most powerful, scalable, secure, and open platform for the global developer community. Around 400 developers and architectures participated in the event and ebay, via and Spider Logic were the partners behind this successful event.

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