Geert Bevin - Sun Java Champion and Creator of Rife Application Framework

Geert is a developer at Terracotta Inc., is the CEO and founder of Uwyn bvba/sprl and created the RIFE project which provides a full-stack Java Web application framework for quickly building maintainable applications. He started or contributed to open-source projects like Bla-bla List, OpenLaszlo, Drone, JavaPaste, Bamboo, Elephant, RelativeLayers, and Gentoo Linux. Geert is also an official Sun Java Champion.

• Cutting-edge productivity with RIFE
• Exploring Terracotta : JVM clustering in the real world

Cutting-edge productivity with RIFE
RIFE is a full-stack, open-source Java web application framework, offering fast results with the promise of maintainability and code clarity. This session will review the novel ideas in Java web application development that RIFE has introduced to the development community.

Through a real-world demonstration of the development process with RIFE, learn how RIFE makes developing easier with features such as: instant reloads and centralized declarations, meta programming through constraints and meta data merging, run-time POJO-driven CRUD generation, bi-directional logic-less templates, automatic context-aware components, and the integration of a content management framework.

The second part will focus on state management, which has always been a complex and tricky part of web application development. Native Java web continuations simplify this and automatically allow you to create a one-to-one conversation between users and a web application. State preservation and flow control no longer need to be handled manually, bringing you back to the simplicity of single user console applications. Remember 'scanf()'?

Continuations will be introduced from general principles, followed by practical examples that explain how they benefit web application development and their frequent usage patterns. Finally, automatic and non-intrusive fail-over and scalability will be demonstrated through the integration with Open Terracotta.

Exploring Terracotta : JVM clustering in the real world
Terracotta provides open-source clustering for Java and removes the burden from the developer. Instead of having to design and code against a specific API, the characteristics of the Java Memory Model (wait, lock, notify) are automatically translated towards a multiple node architecture. This clustering solution guarantees proper handling of concurrency, fail-over, distributed method invocation and efficient state propagation by simply instrumenting your Java bytecode and providing you with Network Attached Memory. This is however so generic that it's sometimes difficult realize which use-cases can benefit from it.

This presentation introduces the basic principles of Terracotta and explains how to configure and integrate it into your application. Afterwards, we'll go through a collection of real-world examples that all benefit from JVM-level clustering. These include: serialization-less HTTP session clustering, fine-grained distributed caches, workload distribution through master-worker, shared state and events between server and desktop tiers, clustered Spring and other OSS frameworks ... and more.

Garbage collection made the JVM responsible for memory management. Take the plunge and experience how Terracotta does the same for clustering.