Memphis/Mid-South JUG

Who's Coming?

In a preview of his No Fluff Just Stuff tour debut a week from Friday at the first annual Mid-South Software Symposium, Matt Stine will present his Polyglot OSGi talk, or "How to sneak your favorite JVM language into the enterprise!"

We probably have room for 2-3 lightning talks - please let Matt know ASAP if you'd like to give a talk. Thanks!

We will again be treated to dinner/snacks courtesy of our principal sponsor, Vaco Technology. We will also have several exciting door prizes!

Speakers:

• Matt Stine

  

  Matt is the Group Leader of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics Division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital here in Memphis, TN. Matt has been developing and supporting enterprise Java applications in support of life sciences research for St. Jude since 2001. Matt is a committer to multiple open source projects and is the founding member of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. Matt earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi, and was a graduating member of the inaugural class of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. His current areas of interest include Groovy/Grails, cloud computing, Java concurrency, and functional programming.

  Topic: Polyglot OSGi

  One of the greatest benefits of OSGi is its firewall-esque encapsulation of implementation details. The only traffic that gets in or out is the traffic that you explicitly specify; otherwise, all bets are off. The aspiring polyglot can bring in the right tool for the right job by hiding it behind OSGi services as an “implementation detail,” provided that only Java language types are exported. 

  This talk will:

  - give a brief introduction to OSGi and polyglot programming
  - explore the pros and cons of the polyglot OSGi approach
  - experiment with Groovy, Clojure, and Scala in an OSGi container
  - look at some of the “gotchas” one might encounter along the way

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