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Clojure Bits in JVM Universe (Anatoly Polinsky, USA)

Out of many strong JVM based languages Clojure and Java make a great couple. Coming to Clojure from Spring several years ago Anatoly Polinsky really wished, back then, someone could explain functional programming and Clojure ecosystem to me from the Spring/Java point of view. In this talk Anatoly Polinsky of Chariot Solutions will bridge the … Read More

TechCast #45 – SpringSource’s Ben Alex on Roo, a Java-based agile framework

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Ben Alex carved out some time to talk to me about the SpringSource Roo project, a very interesting and different take on Convention over Configuration Frameworks. All of the major prior frameworks seem to use dynamic and meta-programming tricks to get work done.  Ben’s team focused on taking advantage of the Java platform, and hence … Read More