What we’re about
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: Jason Young.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Language Integrated Query for Kotlin: You'll never want to write plain SQL again660 W Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Dear Kotlin Developers, let’s admit it: deep down, we really hate DSLs, especially SQL DSLs! When we can’t do “person.name == ‘joe’” and need to do “person.name eq ‘joe’” we’ll grin and bear it, but when it turns into “Case.When(addr.zipCode eq 14562).Then(‘J’).Else(‘Y’) instead of “if (addr.zipCode == 14562) ‘J’ else ‘Y’” we start to question whether any of these abstractions are worth their semantic weight.
Well, what I told you that I have a unique system where you CAN do all of these above things? What if I told you that you could use `==` to create normal comparisons in SQL. What if I told you could use simple `if` and `when` statements that seamlessly translate into SQL Case statements? What if I told you can use Elvis-operators in SQL queries to seamlessly handle nullable columns? What if I told you you’ll never need to deal with another Table-alias object again!?
Presenting a new system called ExoQuery that shatters all the known limits of SQL query-writing in Kotlin, on the JVM, and beyond!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DgCLeu8In8&t=6s
This will be a unique talk focusing on ExoQuery use-cases and capabilities. I will walk you through how ExoQuery can break the toughest SQL queries down into functional, composeable, and polymorphic deliciousness!
About the presenter, Alexander Ioffe:
Alexander Ioffe acquired his formative scars in the Java EE and big-data trenches, wrestling with MapReduce search indexes at eBay, object-relational impedance mismatches, and sprawling SQL in Nasdaq’s SEC-compliance systems. Those battles convinced him of the merits of functional programming, immutability, and composition.Hungry for cleaner abstractions, Alexander plunged into the Scala ecosystem, embracing compile-time metaprogramming and LINQ-style query builders, and ultimately found his way to Kotlin. Drawing on years of meta-programming experience, he created ExoQuery, a library that brings true LINQ-grade, type-safe queries to Kotlin—with capabilities that had heretofore existed in no language or platform.
About the host and sponsor, Apex Systems:
Apex Systems is a leading global technology services firm that incorporates industry insights and experience to deliver solutions that fulfill our clients’ digital visions. We offer a continuum of services, specializing in strategy, transformation, and managed services across application development, data, enterprise platforms, cloud and infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Through our ability to innovate alongside our customers, we build and deploy the right artificial intelligence solutions to realize business value and improve customer experiences. Our alliances with cutting-edge technology partners empower our customers by providing them with the latest advancements. - Simpler Java Build Tools with Object Oriented ProgrammingCertara, Radnor, PA
The Java language is known to be performant, easy to use, and with great IDE support, but Java build tools like Maven or Gradle do not always live up to that reputation. This talk will explore why build tooling is fundamentally such a difficult domain to work in, and how common concepts from object-oriented programming have the potential to simplify the build tool experience. We will end with a demonstration of an experimental new Java build tool "Mill" that makes use of these ideas, proving out the idea that Java build tooling has the potential to be much faster, safer, and easier than it is today.
About the Speaker
Li Haoyi
Li Haoyi graduated from MIT, has built infrastructure for high-growth companies like Dropbox and Databricks, and has been a major contributor to the open source community on Github. Haoyi has deep experience in the JVM and has used it professionally to build cloud infrastructure, distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more.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.
