2009 Session: Pragmatic Real-World Scala
Wednesday, 15:35 - 16:25
Track: Effective Languages
We will give you an introduction to Scala from a real-world perspective and discuss a wide range of areas such as:
* Scala's richer OO abstractions and mixin composition; to create more flexible and reusable components and systems.
* Scala's FP nature; for more clean, safe, conceptually coherent and deterministic code
* Scala's Actors library; to make concurrent programming and event-driven systems a walk in the park
* Web development, O/R Mapping, Dependency Injection
(DI), AOP, Testing
Prerequisites
None
Expectations
Get a glimpse on how to how to use Scala in the Real World
Additional Info
Jonas Bonér
Jonas Bonér is a programmer, mentor, speaker and author who spends most of his time consulting as well as lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide. He has worked at Terracotta, the JRockit JVM at BEA and is an active contributor to the Open Source community; most notably created the AspectWerkz (AOP) framework, committer to the Terracotta JVM clustering technology and been part of the Eclipse AspectJ team. Read more on his blog: http://jonasboner.com