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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Edition 8: Indic Threads Education

IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology is the oldest independent event on Java technology in India and the best place in India for Java learning & discussion. Theconference this year had sessions on new and groundbreaking technologies, emerging trends, successful practices and real world case studies on Java technology, delivered by some of the best in the business.
The 4th annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology was held in Pune,
The conference is the oldest independent event onJava technology in India and the best place in India for Java learning & discussion. The event this year saw participation from speakers & delegates from across India as well as from countries like Japan & the US.
Harshad Oak, co-founder of IndicThreads & the only Sun Java Champion in India says "For me the highlight of the conference were the interactions around the new JavaEnterprise version 6 specification & how Java today is the top platform for software development and is much more than just a language.
Sangeeta Oak, co-founder adds "The talks about Java Mobile Edition and the impact ofGoogle's Android platform also provided fresh insights about Java's place in the mobilesoftware development space, the relevance of Google's Android platform and thecontroversies surrounding it."
Sessions this year dealt with Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Lucene & Solr Search, Dynamic& Scripting Languages For Java Platform, Scala, Groovy, Grails, Google App Engine,Scrum, REST, Spring, Java Mobile Development, Android, Java For Enterprise SoftwareVersion 6 and Jax-WS.
Speakers at conference 09 include renowned speakers, book authors & experts fromIndia & abroad, including Allahbaksh Asadullah, Arun Gupta, Biswajit Sarkar, KamalGovindraj, Lalit Bhatt, Mushtaq Ahmed, Narinder Kumar, Navin Kabra, Pramod Nagaraja,Rohit Nayak, Harshad Oak & Vikas Hazrati.
The conference session presentations and videos are freely available on
IndicThreads.com
In a novel initiative, IndicThreads had a Go Green campaign at conference 09. So theconference gave away free saplings to all those interested. Delegates who walked, cycled or used public transport to the conference were given special goodies bags, while the winner of the Green IT quiz "Gurpreet Khanuja" from Persistent Systems won a shiny new eco-friendly bicycle.
About IndicThreads

IndicThreads.com
is one of India's leading software developer portals. It organizes an
annual International Conference On Java & another on Software Quality . It also offers
ground breaking courses in business & technology education under
IndicThreads Education


Ms. Tanmayee Nitin Sangamnerkar, studying in 1st std. at Primary School, of SYMBIOSIS, Stood First in Maharashtra, in ABACUS State Level Examination, held at Kolhapur. She will represent Maharashtra, at National Level, in Chennai.

Abacus is an international organization, conducting examinations for excellence in Mathematics.

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