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Friday the 14th of November at 12:34 p.m. 
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Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy Project Manager, and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. He co-authored Manning's best seller "Groovy in Action".
Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, Inc., the Groovy / Grails company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy and Grails, and providing professional services (expertise, consulting, support and training) around those technologies.
You can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, Domain-Specific Languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework.
In November 2008, his company was acquired by SpringSource, as Groovy and Grails
bring additional weapons to the SpringSource portfolio to fight the war
on Enterprise Java complexity.
What You'll Hear at Guillaume Laforge's Presentation on Groovy
Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM, providing modern features to Java developers today as Groovy has the best integration with the Java platform and language so far. In this session, you will learn step by step how Groovy can help you in your daily Java development and still be able to tell your boss you are working with Java.
This presentation will show participants how Groovy works on its own and how it can interact with usual Java code. It will cover the major Groovy-isms that one should be aware of when coming to Groovy from a Java background and equally will provide a high level overview of all the Groovy syntax constructs, its specific features and APIs to simplify the life of Jave enterprise developers.
Also, with the recent release of Groovy 1.6, new features have seen the light of day, and this session will cover the novelties in this new version: multiple assignments, Swing and Swing improvements, metaprogramming additinos, Abstract Syntax Tree transformations, and more.
More Information
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!
Book Now Before 19th December and Receive O'Reilly's Head First Java with our compliments!
Full IJTC Website Launches Monday 1st December - Join the Community List for Reminder.
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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
