Denver Java Users Group

Hosted by Boulder Java Users Group - RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/boulderjavausersgroup/events/312921296/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

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Details

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This meetup is co-scheduled with AI Coding & Cloud, Boulder Java Users Group, and Denver Java Users Group.
See location pictures below.

5:30-6:00: Food, Soda, and Networking
6:00-6:15: Announcements & Raffles!

6:15-7:30: Bruno Souza: Annual Career Discussion
Let's talk about our careers.
Emphasis will include AI related changes.

About
Since 1995, helping Java developers improve their careers and work on cool projects with great people, Bruno Souza has been the creator of Code4.Life, an initiative to accelerate developer’s careers. Bruno is a Principal Consultant at Summa Technologies. Developer communities are a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java, NetBeans, Open Solaris, and many other open source communities.

As founder and coordinator of SouJava (The Java Users Society), one of the world’s largest Java User Groups, Bruno led the expansion of the Java movement in Brazil. Founder of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community, Bruno helped the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide. A Founding Member of the Java Champions, and a Java Developer since the early days, Bruno sits on the Executive Commitee of the Java Community Process (JCP). Bruno also participated in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil. Bruno is an emeritus Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), served as President of the innovation-focused Campus Party Institute, and coordinated Nuvem, the Cloud Computing Lab of LSI/USP.

When not in front of a computer, Bruno enjoys time with his family in a little hideout near São Paulo. An amateur in many things — photographer, puppeteer, father — he strives to be good in some of them.

SPONSORS

Agile Developer Support
dev2next Lone Tree, Colorado October. Arc of AI Austin, TX April. Conference raffles and multiple speakers.
dev2next
Arc of AI

Oracle Support
JavaOne San Francisco, California March. Oracle AI World Las Vegas, Nevada October. Meeting facilities and multiple speakers.
JavaOne
Oracle AI World

NFJS Support
UberConf Westminster, Colorado July. ArchConf Clearwater Beach, Florida December. Multiple speakers.
UberConf
ArchConf

JetBrains Support
CLion, DataGrip, DataSpell, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PhpStorm, PyCharm Pro, ReSharper, ReSharper C++, Rider, RubyMine, RustRover, WebStorm, or dotUltimate. Raffle.
JetBrains

Confluent Support
AI ready data products with the World's Data Streaming Platform, by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka. Speaker.
Confluent

CodeScene Support
Scale AI safely, keep code high quality, and increase delivery speed all powered by CodeHealth. Speaker.
CodeScene

RedHat Support
Red Hat open source platform — Power your AI, virtualization, and automation strategies on an open source foundation. Speaker.
RedHat

Location: Denver Marriott South at Park Meadows
10345 Park Meadows Drive
Lone Tree, CO 80124

6:30-7:00: Food, Soda, and Networking
7:00-7:15: Announcements & Raffles!

7:15-8:30: AI Superpowers: Model Context Protocol in Java & Spring AI
On their own, Large Language Models (LLMs) are only able to generate responses based on their training. While their training may be vast, it will not include any actual data from your organization's databases and systems. What's more, an LLM may be able to answer questions, they are unable to actually interact with your enterprise and take action.

Enter Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP defines a standard with which you can collection a set of related tools, prompts, and resources and make those available to an LLM to make use of. With MCP, your LLMs will be able to interact with databases, APIs, and other components in your enterprise to get things done.
Building and using MCP in Java has never been easier than it is now with Spring AI. Spring AI introduced support for MCP in its 1.0 release and improved upon it tremendously in Spring AI 2.0.

In this example-driven session, you'll learn how to build an MCP server in Java using Spring AI, integrate it with clients such as Claude Code and Cursor, and even create your own MCP clients.

About
Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 3 dogs.

dev2next Support & Raffle
They are hosting this meeting and speaker. dev2next will be held in Lone Tree, Colorado from October 12 to 15. As an incentive for the Boulder JUG members to attend the JUG meetings in-person, dev2next would like to raffle out one free ticket for the conference each month a meeting is held. They sponsor multiple speakers.
dev2next