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.

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.

Dynamic scripting languages are a powerful addition to a software designer’s toolbox. Rails/Ruby and Python have not gained much acceptance in the enterprise. Grails and Groovy are an attempt to bridge the gap between the modern scripting world and the Enterprise Java world. This talk is an introduction towards building web applications in Grails.

NT/e Ltd has announced CloudTran, a middleware product that claims to overcome the inherent difficulties of distributed programming by providing a simple Java view of data, mission-critical transactions and automatic distribution in the Cloud.

An update on how Oracle plans to utilize / integrate Sun technologies. Incidentally Oracle got JRockit from its acquisition of BEA in 2008.

Oracle announced in its recent webcast that JavaOne would continue to exist as an independent event although the dates would now be around Oracle OpenWorld time. JavaOne 2010 will be held in San Francisco on September 19-23. JavaOne 2010 call for papers is open till March 14, 2010.