Apatar - First Joint Meeting of Belarus JUG and Adobe Flash Platform User Group Featured Adobe and SUN Microsystems

More than 120 developers from several Belarusian cities abounding the appointment on Rich Internet Applications (RIA) development to apprentice about the latest accoutrement and technologies from Adobe and SUN Microsystems.

January 14, 2008, Minsk, Belarus – On December 18, 2008, a collective affair of the Belarus Java User Group and Adobe Flash Platform User Group was captivated with the abutment of the Minsk Institute of Management and Altoros Systems. Cornel Creanga, Java Technical Lead at Adobe, for the aboriginal time presented Adobe Flex in Belarus and batten on its affiliation with Java back-ends, while Alexander Zuev, Technology Evangelist at SUN Microsystems, delivered the aboriginal analysis of the new JavaFX development belvedere for Belarusian developers. More than 120 IT specialists from Minsk, Homel, and Vitebsk abounding the conference, a dozen added followed the abide advertisement online.

Short analysis of the conference

Once the allotment was over at 18.30, the affair started with the adumbrative from Adobe, Cornel Creanga (Romania), presenting his analysis of the key capabilities of the Adobe Flex technology. He spent some time traveling over the programming accent itself and the Adobe AIR belvedere with its top akin of interactivity, again approved how to affix Flex with Java back-ends, JavaScript, and added Web technologies. Cornel aswell emphasized the accent of accessible antecedent for Adobe products. After the presentation, Cornel gave out New Year’s ability from Adobe: shirts with the company’s logo, DVDs (“Total Training for Adobe Flex 3, Internet & AIR Applications”), and some O’Reilly books (“Getting Started with Flex 3”).

During the 15-minute coffee break, the appointment attendees would not let Cornel relax as they bombarded him with questions on the differences amid Flash, Flex, and added accepted RIA-technologies. Meanwhile, added Java- and Flash-/Flex-developers chatted over a cup of tea or coffee.

At 20.20, Alexander Zuev, the Technical Evangelist at the Russian annex of SUN Microsystems, started his abundant analysis of the JavaFX platform, which was appear on December 4, 2008. He explained the differences amid JavaFX and Adobe Flex, approved the capabilities of the new language, JavaFX Script, and batten on the means it interacts with absolute Java programs. Alexander aswell covered the JavaFX development accoutrement offered by SUN Microsystems, affected aloft the company’s approaching plans, and answered all of the audience’s arduous and catchy questions. The a lot of breath participants were adored by Alexander with presents featuring SUN’s logo.

After the appointment accomplished at 22.00, Alexander and Cornel alternating with a dozen added participants connected the altercation in a added accidental ambience in one of Minsk’s restaurants. The afterparty that started with discussing articles and technologies bound grew into badinage on cultural differences, abstruse abandon of the speakers’ biographies, Russian winters extensive -50 C, and vampires from Transylvania.

Pictures from the conference:

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Presentation and audio links

1. “Adobe Flex and AIR Platform: Integration with Java Back-ends”
Speaker: Corneliu Vasile Creanga, Java Technical Lead, Adobe (Romania, Bucharest)

Presentation #1 (2.2 Mb): belarusjug.org/files/Cornel_Flex3_Intro.ppt
Presentation #2 (0.9 Mb): belarusjug.org/files/Cornel_Data_Intensive.ppt
Audio (50 Mb): belarusjug.org/files/Cornel_Flex3.wav

2. “JavaFX Platform and JavaFX Script: New Development Tools from SUN Microsystems”
Speaker: Alexander Zuev, Java Technology Evangelist, SUN Microsystems (Russia, St. Petersburg)

Presentation (1.4 Mb): belarusjug.org/files/Zuev_JavaFX.pdf
Audio (75 Mb): belarusjug.org/files/Alexander_Zuev_JavaFX.wav

Speaker quotes

“I was afflicted by the activity and affability of the humans in Belarus,” said Cornel Creanga, the apostle from Adobe. “I accept that it is one of the things that analyze the Eastern Europeans from the added Europe inhabitants. I accustomed a lot of questions apropos Adobe technologies and how they administer to the Java ambiance and had a acceptable chat about technology and outsourcing with Alexander Zuev, SUN’s new JavaFX Evangelist. I absolutely enjoyed the time I spent in Belarus and I achievement to be aback again, not necessarily on account of Adobe, but aswell as a tourist, to adore the angle of the country.”

“The architecture of the conference—speaking calm with a adumbrative from Adobe—turned out to be absolutely exciting,” acclaimed Alexander Zuev, Java Technical Evangelist at SUN Microsystems. “I admired Minsk a lot and was absolutely afraid by the Belarusian acceptance that took allotment in the appointment calm with accomplished specialists. The akin of their accepted ability and apprenticeship aswell afflicted me. For instance, about anybody knows that Java is not just the programming language, but aswell an island in the Indian Ocean. I would adulation to appointment Minsk again; because the amount of copse in the city, it have to be absorbing in spring!”

“The contempo appointment that brought calm two user groups was unique, because it amid two, in a sense, aggressive technologies,” added Dr. Nikolay Susha, Rector of the Minsk Institute of Management. “We are animated that our convention could accord to the able altercation of such technically circuitous and arguable issues.”

About the organizers of the event

The Minsk Institute of Management, founded in 1991, is one of the arch institutes of college apprenticeship in the Republic of Belarus. It provides complete accessories for training awful competent specialists in economics, law, psychology, adopted languages, and advice technologies. Today, the ability abject and the absolutely able adroitness ensure teaching on a awful able akin with the use of the latest achievements in science and technology. Please appointment www.miu.by for added information.

Altoros Systems, Inc. is a all-around software accumulation celerity specialist that provides focused outsourced software artefact engineering, absolute Quality Assurance, and testing casework to software organizations and information-driven enterprises. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Altoros has adumbrative offices in Tampa, Florida. It manages a software development centermost in Eastern Europe out of its offices in Minsk, Belarus. In contempo years, Altoros has started accomplishing accumulation development of bartering software application the latest technologies, including Spring Framework 2.5, Hibernate 3.2, iBatis 2.3, JSF 1.2, as able-bodied as Adobe Flex, Ruby on Rails, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, and Windows Mobile. For added information, amuse appointment www.altoros.com.

The Belarusian Adobe Flash Platform User Group consists of developers and designers absorbed in administration experience, knowledge, news, and aggregate abroad accompanying to Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, and Adobe AIR. The accumulation aims to access the amount and above of Belarusian Adobe Flash developers, apprentice Adobe technologies, and appear up with collective projects. More on BAFPUG: www.bafpug.com.

The Belarus Java User Group was launched in backward 2007 to accompany calm Java developers, Java users, and Java-driven companies in Belarus. The association intends to advice the associates accommodated on a approved base to allotment ideas, experience, and thoughts on how to accomplish the a lot of of Java technologies in their circadian work. The Belarus Java User Group already lists added than 200 Belarusian Java developers. To apprentice added about Belarus JUG, amuse appointment www.belarusjug.org

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