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The next meeting of the Java User Group Hamburg will be covering Flex3, BlazeDS and Java. I myself will give a short introduction to Artifactory, a free maven repository software based on Wicket and JackRabbit.
The meeting takes place on May 20th, 2009 at 1900.
I hope to see you there!
Best regards, — Jan.

Scala get’s more and more attention. I’m trying to push the interest further and I’m happy to announce that my presentation at the Java Forum Stuttgart 2009 has been accepted.
There will also be a presentation of Scala in Hamburg at the Arbeitskreis Objekttechnologie Norddeutschland.
Both presentations will be held in german.
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A couple of days ago I had a discussion on what would be the five libraries a developer should have had a good look at. This naturally is depending on what type of programming you’re focusing on, so you will seldom get the same list by two different developers.
Let’s define some base parameters: web application [...]

There has been an amazing many developers joining the presentations about Scala and Wicket at Google UK the day before yesterday. It was a great event and I enjoyed it very much as well.
Especially thanks to Cemal for his hospitality!
Here are he slides for all interested: Scala @ London Wicket
Hope to see yo again!
— Jan.

The first time I looked at the Scala language I just thought “No way!” – years of Java made the syntax unsightly to me and not palatable on first sight. I just didn’t want that!
But functional programming was intriguing virgin soil. And the more I approached it, the more was I willing to give the [...]