Event details:

• Location: Credit Suisse – 11 Madison Avenue, New York, New York (see map below)
• Date: November 18, 2010
• Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
• Event Website: http://www.javasig.com/meeting/show/35

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Eclipse Summit Europe is taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany November 2-4, 2010. This conference brings together the community of contributors, adopters, add-in providers, service providers, business and research organizations so they can share their expertise and learn from each other. Eclipse Summit Europe delivers networking opportunities that lead to synergies in the community, as well as opportunities to give and receive help on specific technical issues.

Event Details:

• Date: November 2-4, 2010
• Location: Ludwigsburg, Germany
• Event Website: Eclipse Summit Europe 2010

Event Presentations:

• Build Systems Exposed: Strengths & Weaknesses of Build Technologies at Eclipse
• Speaker: Jason van Zyl
• Date: November 4, 2010

JavaOne is an annual conference to discuss Java technologies among Java developers. The conference is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California and is co-located with Oracle OpenWorld from September 19-23.

Technical sessions on a variety of topics will be held each day from leading experts in the Java, PL/SQL, rich internet application development, SOA communities.

Sonatype has three presentations this year. One by Jason van Zyl and two by Jeanfrancois Arcand:

Maven 3.x: The Evolution of Enterprise Java Build Infrastructures
Speaker: Jason van Zyl
Track: Java EE Web Profile and Platform Technologies
Date: 20-SEP-10
Time: 14:30 – 15:30
Venue: Parc 55
Room: Market Street

Building Powerful WebSocket, Comet, and RESTful Applications Using Atmosphere<br/>
Speaker: Jeanfrancois Arcand
Track: Java EE Web Profile and Platform Technologies
Date: 21-SEP-10
Time: 11:30 – 12:30
Venue: Hilton
Room: Yosemite C

Writing Powerful HTTP Apps Using the New Asynchronous HTTP Client Library
Speaker: Jeanfrancois Arcand
Track: Core Java
Date: 21-SEP-10
Time: 21:00 – 21:45
Venue: Parc 55
Room: Market Street

Be sure to pop by the Sonatype booth (5509) to learn more about our latest projects!

Each year Google hosts an Eclipse Day and puts together an agenda that includes Eclipse and Google related topics. This year there will be presentations that feature Android, Helios, GWT, EGit, Linux Tools, Eclipse 4.0, EMF, XText and more. Sonatype’s founder, Jason van Zyl, will be presenting on Next Generation Development Infrastructure with Maven, m2eclipse, Nexus and Hudson.

This talk focuses on the Maven Ecosystem and the under-pinnings of technologies that are going to shape the Next Generation Maven Development Stack. While the Maven 3 release retains backward-compatibility with plugins written for Maven 2, the foundational technologies used in Maven are being recast to allow for more space for expansion as Maven starts to expand into newer spaces like OSGi and Polyglot development. In this talk, van Zyl discusses new, emerging technologies and how they fit into the overall approach to the development of a Next Generation Maven Development Stack. This presentation will include an overview of the following technologies:

• Moving Maven from Plexus to Guice
• Continued work to support OSGi development with Tycho
• Support for Polyglot development and alternative languages
• m2eclipse, the primary Eclipse IDE Maven-integration used at Sonatype which is also integrated with STS and JBoss Tools.

Eclipse Day hosted by Google:

• Thursday, August 26, 2010
• 9:00am – 5:00pm
• Googleplex
• 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
• Mountain View, CA

Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl will be presenting on next generation development infrastructure with Maven, M2Eclipse, Nexus and Hudson.  This presentation will show how to employ best practices when using these tools individually as well as together, as a powerful set.

All development organizations eventually converge on a set of tools to reduce costs, lower onboarding time, and leverage knowledge in strong communities to create standard processes. To this end we see in many organizations the emergence of a standard development stack consisting of Maven, M2Eclipse, Nexus & Hudson. Sonatype itself leverages this stack on a daily basis and this discussion will focus not only on the tools individually, but how they can work together to create a best practices approach to building and delivering your software in your organization.

Eclipse Day takes place on August 26, 2010 in Mountain View, California.  For more information please visit the Sonatype events page.  We hope to see you there!

Here is a small excerpt from the interview, and to read the full interview click here.

Scott: The first time I bumped into design patterns, which seem to be at the core of what you were talking about, I was at a software conference down in San Francisco, and one of the gang of four was giving a presentation on design patterns.

He was talking about how they were sitting around lamenting the notion that Smalltalk developers seem to solve the same problem the same way, because there were design patterns baked into the language, whereas C++ developers might solve the same problems in a whole bunch of different (and often horrific) ways, because they could go off in any direction they want.

As a result, there was a big push about factoring problems in terms of the patterns that you were looking at. It sounds like that’s really entrenched in Maven: that when you’re building software, there are certain patterns that repeatedly arise, and if they’re codified in the build system, then the same things are done the same way, even across a wide group of people who never talk to each other.

Jason: Maven is opinionated, and I designed to be this way. I don’t think it’s possible to have a tool work for such a large number of people unless you restrict some of the options and provide some guidelines.

Some people at first railed against Maven conventions and the fact that you have to do things a certain way, but if you follow those patterns, you generally can get a software project up and running in a day.

That’s evidenced by the traffic from Maven central, which has become the de facto standard central repository for Maven artifacts in the open source community. We get on the order of 250 or 300 million hits a month against it. In 2008, we had about 1.9 million unique visitors to Maven central. In 2009, we had almost four million.

So, even though Maven’s opinionated, it seems to work for a lot of people. Even though you’re restricted in some of the things you do, it provides more value by limiting what you can do than it would in providing ultimate freedom to give you as much rope as you want.

Cities that are designed well usually have structural patterns in common. Look at cities that don’t have much infrastructure or don’t copy other cities. Lots of cities in North America do that, and they have horrible infrastructures. A lot of developers and organizations tend not to look at what’s happened in the past, and they often repeat mistakes over and over again.

The day will begin with a presentation from Sonatype’s Jason van Zyl on Maven and m2eclipse.

Following this will be IBM’s Olivier Thomann, who will be giving a presentation on API Tooling.  Finally, Sonatype’s Pascal Rapicault will give a presentation on p2.

Following the presentations we will hold an Eclipse DemoCamp, where members of the local tech community will take the stage and present their latest projects and technology.

For full schedule information and to register for this free event, please click here.

Van Zyl’s talk will also discuss some upcoming projects that a still in development, such as Sonatype’s work on a project codenamed Proviso, work on newer approaches to source code management, and support for distributed version control systems such as Git.  For more information stay tuned to the Sonatype blog, and get up to the minutes updates by following us on Twitter.

To view presentations from past conferences, such as Next Generation Infrastructure: Maven Enterprise Stack presented at the Sonatype Maven Meetup in Philadelphia, click here.

It provides an ideal forum for software developers, project managers and architects to learn about the latest Technology, Architecture and Agile Methodologies. It is this very special blend of topics which has made JAX the conference of choice in Germany, India and Asia since its conception in 2001.  The primary goal of JAX is to showcase technical solutions for today’s problems and offer visions to the important trends of tomorrow.

For more information about Sonatype at JAX 2010, visit our event site.

The event brings together internal and external software testing and software development tool vendors and professionals.

Van Zyl’s talk will also discuss some upcoming projects that a still in development, such as Sonatype’s work on a project codenamed Proviso, work on newer approaches to source code management, and support for distributed version control systems such as Git.  For more information stay tuned to the Sonatype blog, and get up to the minutes updates by following us on Twitter.