The session looks at the fundamentals of Scala with examples to highlight its unique features like case classes and pattern matching, for comprehensions, traits, functions as values and others. It also looks at Scala’s support for writing internal as well as external DSLs.

Version 2.0 of Ehcache open source caching solution claims to deliver the enterprise-class capabilities of high priced and proprietary technologies like Oracle Coherence without requiring application changes.

Google’s Android platform is gaining rapidly in the smartphone platform space. As per comScore which reports trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry, during October 2009 and January 2010 Google Android’s share of the smartphone subscriber base in the US rose by a whopping 4.3%.

SpringSource has released tc Server Spring Edition, which claims to be the best place to build and run Spring applications. tc Server Spring Edition provides a lightweight platform for running modern applications and is said to be suited for the virtualized datacenter as well as private and public cloud environments. 

Gorilla Logic has released FlexMonkey 1.0 GA which it claims to be a de facto standard for automated functional testing of Flex applications. After eight months of maturing in a beta status, FlexMonkey is now available for production use by developers and quality assurance professionals everywhere. 

Companies are increasingly using a combination of Java and .NET to build and operate enterprise applications. A global survey has found that this was the most frequently identified obstacle to delivering acceptable results — even more so than virtualization or service-oriented architectures. More than half of US IT organizations cite heterogeneous architectures as a leading cause of application performance, scalability, and stability problems.