Java EE 7 OTN Tour 2013 Trip Report - Part 1/2

OTN Tour 2013 is over, and after 7 countries, all I have to tell you is this: #JavaEE7 rocks and people loved it! It is quite coincidence that at the end, I went to 7 cities in Latin America to give my "What's new in Java EE 7" talk plus the Hands-on Lab and other talks like the one about WebLogic 12c and another about GlassFish 4.

In reality, I had also planned to go to Panama City, and San José in Costa Rica. Well, things sometimes don't always go as planned, and I couldn't go to Panama. And when I got to Costa Rica, I was sent back to Mexico because I was not with my Yellow Fever card. But I'm looking forward to Java EE 9, if you know what I mean. :-) In the end, I visited 7 cities:

• Mexico City, Mexico
• Guadalajara, Mexico
• Santiago, Chile
• Lima, Peru
• Montevideo, Uruguay
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• São Paulo, Brazil

Now, before I talk about each city, let me explain something to you really important: OTN Tour is organized by LAOUC, the Latin America Oracle Users Community. And at each participant city, local OUGs help to organize, set a venue, local partners as sponsors, and also work with the speakers' agenda. Oracle does sponsor these events, both by supporting the local event,  as well by sponsoring Oracle ACEDs to travel with the tour. If you want to become an Oracle ACE, all you need to do is to learn about the Oracle ACE program.

We all know how Database-driven Oracle has been for the past decades, and we understand that most off the Oracle User Groups are more interested on Database stuff. But this is changing. There was a lot of interest during the whole tour on Middleware and Development technologies such as Java EE, ADF, WebLogic, and GlassFish. Dana Singleterry joined me in this tour and brought with him a lot of information on ADF 12c and ADF Mobile. Don't forget to follow him on Twitter.

By the way, this tour was great to improve my Spanish. Yeah, you read it: Spaaaanish. I'm from Brazil, and we speak Portuguese there. And Brazil is the only country in Latin America that speaks Portuguese. To improve my learning, at every country I visited I tried to learn local slangs. So for each city, I did a special slide for Java EE 7. Really, you gotta learn local slangs to be cool with a 2nd/3rd language :-P Anyway, it all started on July 21st in the morning...

Mexico City (DF), Mexico - July 26th

Like I told before, I could not go to Panama nor Costa Rica, so I stayed in Mexico the first week, and worked with Oracle folks there, did customer meetings, worked from hotel, etc. On Friday I finally started. Great venue at Egade Business School as well a very nice setup with coffeebreaks and lunch for everyone. Kudos to ORAMEX, the local OUG. In Mexico, I gave my Java EE talk, and did the Hands-on.

Spanish Lesson Part 1
By the way, chingar is a word in Mexican Spanish that means a lot of things, both for good or bad contexts. It can be used so widely that there is even a "chingonary", or a dictionary on how to use it, that I had to buy one for me in a local bookstore. In this case, it means "Java EE 7 has so many new technologies inside", but of course using a slang, almost a swearing word :P

Pictures: Facebook or Google+

Guadalajara, Mexico - July 27th

Guadalajara was not part of the official OTN Tour. Actually, it was an Oracle Java Day organized by the local Oracle office, with people from the Oracle Curriculum Development Team and where some of the great content of Oracle Learning Library is coming from. This conference was led by Edgar Martinez and I can't say how thankful I am. Edgar and his team did a great job. Everything was perfect: the great staff team, pizza for lunch, the office, the setup, the trail, and last but not least, the happy hour! Edgar blogged about this as a guest at Java blog, so you may want to read more about this there. Here I gave my Java EE 7 talk, and the hands-on. A lot of people showed up!

More pictures of the event on Flicker, my Facebook, and my Google+

Also, all the registration fee for this event was donated to a local orphans institute. Later, perhaps the best moment of it all: when we were walking on the street after the event looking for a place to dinner, we met with the supporters of this institute.

Santiago, Chile - August 1st

Santiago is an incredible city. It holds about 30% of the entire population of Chile, and I would guess perhaps more than 50% of the entire economy there. It is one of the most modern city, with great infrastructure and easy access to several touristic places. It was where I could enjoy a tourist-like day, so expect to see regular pictures. :P

Spanish Lesson Part 2
The term bacán in Chilean Spanish means "cool". I had to change my slide here.

The conference here happened at a very nice university, close to a subway station, and here I gave my Java EE 7 talk the hands-on again, and then the GlassFish in Production Environments. I met with great people here both from Oracle User Groups as well some people from the local Java community. It was also where I first met and talked to Tim Hall, really great guy, Oracle ACED, an expert on Oracle Database. If you have any questions about OraDB, follow him on Twitter and check his website, oracle-base.com.

Pictures: Facebook or Google+

Lima, Peru - August 3rd

One day after Santiago, I was flying to Lima for the third country of my list. Lima has really nice areas, like Miraflores so if you plan to visit Peru one day, make sure you stay there to enjoy the best view of the Pacific Ocean. For night life, visit Barranco, full of bars, restaurants, and nightclubs.

Here I gave my traditional Java EE 7 session, catch up with local Oracle people, and had perhaps one of the crowdest room in the whole tour. The question I made to the attendees in the picture below was: "Did you like the new stuff in Java EE 7? Raise your hand if yes!!!"

Pictures: Facebook or Google+

Spanish Lesson Part 3
The term chévere in Peruvian Spanish means "awesome". It is similar to bacán from Santiago, Chile. But people here prefer to be different. :-) So I had to change my slide again.

More next week
I still have to talk about was this tour in Argentina, Montevideo, and finally Brazil. But I will leave that for the next post.

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Promote Java EE 7 and GlassFish on your Twitter

The launch of Java EE 7 is right ahead. On June 12th we will hear from Oracle executives and evangelists what's all about the new version of the platform. The Live Webcast "Introducing Java EE 7 " will have two sessions, and all you need to do to join us and watch Arun Gupta and others, is to go to this webpage and sign up. Also, don't forget to check GlassFish's blog, you know, because it's the reference implementation of Java EE! :-)

But if you really, really love Java EE and really, really want people to join us, why don't you also promote the launch on your Twitter account? Use this background image that fits very nice on your profile, and also don't forget to set the background color to #517E9C.

Let's Make The Future Java... Together!

via Java and everything https://blogs.oracle.com/brunoborges/entry/promote_java_ee_7_and

Líderes de JUG de Latinoamérica, Oracle quiere ponerse en contacto

Hola Comunidad Java de América Latina! Dentro de un par de meses, voy a empezar una gira por América Latina para llevar a usted las nuevas características de la plataforma Java EE 7.

Esta gira comenzará en julio en Brasil, en el TDC - The Developers Conference, en São Paulo. Luego, después de eso, voy a empezar mi viaje a través de varios países. Pero para ayudar a terminar mi agenda, necesito tu ayuda!

Todo lo que necesitas hacer es compartir este artículo con alguien que usted conoce o en su red social. , y por supuesto, proporcionar la información que pido aquí. Esto me ayudará a ponerme en contacto con los líderes JUG locales en su país, y planear las reuniones.s.

Su ayuda es muy apreciada!

¡Gracias!

What's new in Java EE 7 at JUDCon Brazil 2013

This weekend I talked about Java EE 7 at JUDCon Brazil 2013, the session "What's new in Java EE 7? From HTML5 to JMS 2.0". What a great honour to be at JBoss Users and Developers Conference to share with attendees the great work that Oracle, Red Hat, and many others are doing for this platform. Room was packed, with people standing, and so much interest to hear all the cool stuff to come, such as WebSockets, JMS, JAX-RS, JSF and even more. To add some value to this talk, and as I'm a fan of Game of Thrones, I thought that a few images would fit right at this talk :-)

            

Slides here!

What's new in Java EE 7? From HTML5 to JMS 2.0 from Bruno Borges

Originally posted here

Coup d'état Brazil 2013: how to ruin a democracy

The year of 2013 will be remembered in the history of Brazil as the beginning of a Democracy Regression: a coup d'état.

Back in January, the outcome of the "Mensalão" Scandal called attention of the media, specially The Economist with a great article titled Brazil's zombie polititcans: Unstoppable?.

"In total, a third of Brazil’s lawmakers have either been convicted or are being investigated for crimes ranging from vote-buying to theft to slave-holding."

The article mentions cases where politicians like José Genoino, Francisco Tenório, Renan Calheiros, and others, even though found guilty of bribery and some under investigation of murder, replaced other congressmen who stepepd down to become mayors. In the case of Mr. Calheiros, he became the President of Senate, on February 1st.  Some of these politicians were found guilty after judged by STF (Superior Tribunal Federal - Supreme Court).

Now today, April 24th of 2013, José Genoino who is, ironically, a member of CCJ (Comissão de Constituição e Justiça - Judiciary and Constitution Committee), has approved a constitution ammendment that intends to submit to Congress court decisions declaring laws unconstitutional. Also it will increase the minimum votes of judges in decisions, from 6 to 9, lowering of course, the power of supreme court.

Basically, deputies and senators who will decide, ultimately, whether or not it is worth what they themselves approved. In such cases, judges are themselves - at the expense of individual rights and guarantees of citizens, whose guarantee is Justice.

The amendment proposes more atrocities, including:

• Go up to four-fifths quorum for the Supreme declare a law unconstitutional.
• Prohibits ministers Supreme grant injunctions in an injunction to suspend - until the final judgment by the Court - the effectiveness of constitutional amendments.
• Determines the binding precedents of jurisprudence (edited by STF mechanism that must be followed by all instances of the judiciary on the basis of decisions adopted by repeatedly cutting - mechanism to expedite justice)) will also be submitted to the scrutiny of Congress before enter into force.

PT: Partido dos Trabalhadores / Workes Party

We must not forget PT, led by Lula (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva), where activelly supported all politicians involved in the Mensalão Scandal, and that also suppports this ammendment. The author is also a member of PT, Congressman Nazareno Fontenele, a ghost never seen before, probably a disposable politician to be used in this move, and someone who will certainly be blamed and forgotten, for such an absurd proposal.

This is with no doubt, a House of Cards, and a tentative coup of Brazil's Democracy.

Referenced article - source

Portuguese: "QUE ABSURDO! A Câmara aprovou hoje um golpe de Estado! Nada menos do que isso!"

English: "WHAT NONSENSE! The House today approved a coup!No less than that!"