Silicon Valley Code Camp (Oct. 8 & 9) is a community-driven developer conference. Developers will learn from their fellow developers in 212 sessions about code, of course, but also about legal issues, branding and community building. Experts from Oracle and the community are sharing their technical know-how during those 2 days in session formats ranging from informal discussions to presentations.

Conveniently scheduled on the weekend with a free entrance, the conference has become more popular over the years and has 1,787 registered this year. The support of many sponsors makes this conference happen and this year Oracle is a platinum sponsor.

Oracle Experts Pieter Humphrey In-memory session replication with WebLogic and GlassFish, Coherence  http://blogs.oracle.com/devtools Sun., Oct. 9 –  10:45am   An engineer's introduction to in-memory data grid development http://blogs.oracle.com/devtools Sun., Oct. 9 – 9:15am Patrick Curran JCP and the Future of Java http://htp://jcp.org Sun., Oct. 9– 9:45am Juan Camilo Ruiz Extending the JSF controller for reusability Sun., Oct. 9 - 2:45pm Arun Gupta The Java EE 7 Platform: Developing for the Cloud http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta Sat., Oct. 8 - 11:15am Deploy and Monitor your Java EE 6 session in a fully-clustered GlassFish http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta Sat., Oct. 8 - 9:45pm Todd Farmer Building Java Applications for MySQL Sun., Oct. 9h – 1:15pm Simon Law High-Performance SQL Applications Using In-Memory Database Technology Sun., Oct. 9h –  10:45am

Experts from the Community Stephen Chin JavaFX 2.0 With Alternative Languages- Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage http://steveonjava.com/ Sat., Oct. 8h – 11:15am John David Duncan MySQL Cluster With and Without SQL http://mysqlblog.lenoxway.net Sat., Oct. 8h – 1:45pm Peter Pilgrim Progressive Enhanced JavaFX 2.0 Custom Components http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/ Sat., Oct. 8th – 5:00pm Prashant Deva Chronon - DVR for Java http://www.chrononsystems.com Sat., Oct. 8h – 11:15am Slava Imeshev Best Practices for Scaling Java Applications with Distributed Caching http://www.cacheonix.com Sun., Oct. 9h – 1:15pm Manish Pandit Play! as you REST : Using Play! Framework to build RESTful services http://twitter.com/lobster1234 Sat., Oct. 8th – 1:45pm

A new article on otn/java, “Templating with JSF 2.0 Facelets,” by Deepak Vohra, offers a concise explanation of how to use Facelets, which in JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0, has replaced JavaServer Pages (JSP) as the default view declaration language (VDL). With Facelets, developers no longer need to configure a view handler as they once did in JSF 1.2.

From the article itself:

“Facelets is a templating framework similar to Tiles. The advantage of Facelets over Tiles is that JSF UIComponents are pre-integrated with Facelets, and Facelets does not require a Facelets configuration file, unlike Tiles, which requires a Tiles configuration file.

JSF Validators and Converters may be added to Facelets. Facelets provides a complete expression language (EL) and JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) support. Templating, re-use, and ease of development are some of the advantages of using Facelets in a Web application.

In this article, we develop a Facelets Web application in Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g and deploy the application to Oracle WebLogic Server 11g. In the Facelets application, an input text UIComponent will be added to an input Facelets page. With JSF navigation, the input Facelets page is navigated to another Facelets page, which displays the JSF data table generated from the SQL query specified in the input Facelets page. We will use Oracle Database 11g Express Edition for the data source. Templating is demonstrated by including graphics for the header and the footer in the input and the output; the graphics have to be specified only once in the template.”

Read the complete article here.

A new article by Java Champion and JavaFX expert, Jim Weaver, titled “Using Transitions for Animation in Oracle’s JavaFX 2.0,” shows developers how to animate their nodes in scenes the easy way, using the JavaFX 2.0 TranslateTransition class. JavaFX comes with its own transition classes, whose purpose is to provide convenient ways to do commonly used animation tasks. The article shows how to use the TranslateTransition class to animate a node, moving it back and forth between two positions in the UI.

From the article:

“JavaFX 2.0 comes with several transition classes (that extend the Transition class) whose purpose is to animate visual nodes in your application. JavaFX also contains many builder classes that provide the ability to express a user interface in a declarative-style. In addition, JavaFX has a powerful property binding capability in which properties may be bound to expressions to automatically keep them updated.”

Read the article here.