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Wednesday the 22nd of October at 3:50 p.m. 
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One of the world's most renowned Open Source Committers is to visit
Ireland in January to present to Irish Java developers at the Irish Java Technologies Conference in Dublin.
Jeff Genender has a distinguised pedigree of software development. Originally from Chicago, he is now CEO of Savoir Technologies in Colorado, a software development company specialising in Java, Oracle and .NET technologies.
Aside from the day job, Jeff is an Apache member and committee member for Apache Geronimo, and is an active committer to projects such as OpenTerracotta, OpenEJB, ServiceMix, Mojo and Mina, which he is to present at the IJTC.
Apache Mina
Mina is a TCP framework that allows you to write servers/clients based on NIO that are very high performance. In fact Jeff was responsible for writing the AsyncHttpClient which scales astronomically (its a part of Mina) - and much better than anything else out there, including Commons HttpClient. It's so good that apparently eBay uses it!
Mina basically allows you to write protocols with a few java classes, which allows you to write powerful servers and clients w/o a lick of needed to muck with TCP/Socket code.
Jeff told us "I've suggested Mina because its cool from a coding perspective and is a smaller open source project which is very interesting but that many developers may not be aware of. I hope to share the knowledge with the Irish Java community so that they can take it back and use the knowledge."
SOA Architecture
Whist over in Ireland at the conference, Jeff is also presenting
the top do's and don't's of implementing SOA. He told us "This talk is
less technical and more architecture based, covering tools to use,
architecture patterns and anti patterns. It gives developers and
architects something to think about as they are developing SOA
applications. It's proved popular and and fun."
Jeff last visited Ireland in November 2007 where he presented
Apache Geronimo at the same conference. He is a bit of a regular on the
conference scene, participating in JavaOne, JavaPolis (now Devoxx),
and his visit to Ireland means that the Irish Java community can see a
world class evangelist without the need to travel abroad.
The Irish Java Technologies Conference is designed to bring the very best arrangement of technology speakers to the stage in Ireland and open their knowledge up to the wider Irish Java community. It follows on from IJTC 2007 where around 300 Java developers attended the event. This years conference is sponsored by JBoss, Hosting 365, Accenture Technology Services and Eircom and takes place in Dublin on 7th and 8th January.
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The Irish Java Technologies Conference is designed to bring the very best arrangement of technology speakers to the stage in Ireland and open their knowledge up to the wider Irish Java community. Who Else is Presenting at the Irish Java Technologies Conference? Find out here!
It follows on from IJTC 2007 where around 300 Java developers attended the event. This years conference is sponsored by JBoss, Hosting 365, Accenture Technology Services and Eircom and takes place in Dublin on 7th and 8th January and is limited to 200 seats only - make sure you not left standing!
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Jeff Genender - Apache
Manik Surtani - JBoss
Sam Brannen - Springsource
Kevin Noonan - Calbane
Werner Keil - Creative Arts and Technologies
Guillaume Laforge - G2One
Chris Davey - Accenture
Gary Tully - Progress Software
Charles Oliver Nutter - SUN
Jean-Frederic Mesnil - JBoss
Guillaume Nodet - Progress Software
Tony Jewtushenko - Product Innovator
Jasper Potts - SUN Microsystems
Antony Reynolds - Oracle
Claudio Perrone - InnerWorkings
