About us
Welcome to the newest virtual home of the Philadelphia Area Java Users’ Group, twice rated by Sun as one of the world’s top Java User Groups! The Philly JUG’s main objective is to provide great learning events for our membership, and if you look at our history we’ve done just that. Over the past fifteen+ years the Philly JUG has done quite a bit of growing up. Very few of you might remember our first meeting, where about 35 members sat on the floor in the office of a long departed dot com. If you have been to a meeting recently you know how far we have come.
Current Philly JugMaster: Greg Taylor.
Upcoming events
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Prompt and Pray? JakartaEE specs to the rescue
Certara, 4 Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 350, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor, PA, USWe will be having two speakers at this meeting, Gerrit Grunwald and Ivar Grimstad.
Why Jakarta EE shines in the era of AI - Gerrit Grunwald
AI code generation is changing everything, and not always for the better. Every developer now has a tireless coding assistant that can produce hundreds of lines of Java in seconds. But code is cheap, software isn't. AI generates what you describe, and if your description is vague, ad hoc, or tied to a specific framework version, the result will be too. In the enterprise, code written today must still be maintainable in five, ten, or fifteen years...by people who may not have been part of writing it. Framework lock-in, abandoned libraries, and undocumented conventions are already hard enough to manage without AI accelerating the problem. But when you give AI a specification-based contract like Jakarta EE, the generated code is portable, standardised, and guaranteed to have a support path for the foreseeable future. We will build a complete Jakarta EE 11 application, live, one spec at a time, entirely with AI assistance, to prove the point.Augmenting AI with the Power of Jakarta EE - Ivar Grimstad
Building production-grade AI requires more than a model. It requires an ecosystem. The Java Community provides this ecosystem for the modern enterprise. Paired with Jakarta EE, it creates a formidable platform for AI Augmentation.Come to this session to learn how to orchestrate enterprise-ready AI agents using Jakarta EE technologies in combination with AI augmentation approaches, such as tools, skills, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
About the Speakers
Gerrit Grunwald
Gerrit Grunwald is a software engineer that loves coding for around 40 years already. He is a true believer in open source and he is an active member of the Java community, where he founded and leads the Java User Group Münster (Germany), he is a JavaOne rockstar, Java Champion and IBM Champion. He is a speaker at conferences and user groups internationally and writes for several magazines.Ivar Grimstad
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Norwegian Java Champion and JUG Leader based in Sweden.Besides advocating for the Jakarta EE technologies, Ivar contributes to the Jakarta EE specifications and is the PMC Lead for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J). He is also one of the specification leads for Jakarta MVC and represents Eclipse Foundation on the JCP Executive Committee.
Ivar is also involved in various other open-source projects and communities. He is a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.
About the Sponsor
Certara (https://www.certara.com)
Certara accelerates medicines to patients, using biosimulation (modeling and simulation) and technology-enabled services to transform drug discovery and development. Our integrated and proprietary end-to-end platform with generative AI technology, biosimulation, regulatory science, and market access solutions combined with our global 1,400+ strong team of scientists and experts enable informed decision-making, higher R&D productivity, and improved patient outcomes.13 attendees
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