The conference will be held from 25-27 Nov 2008 at the Hotel Sun n Sand in Pune, India. Please visit http://conference.indicthreads.com for details.

The 3rd IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology will be held at the Hotel Sun n Sand in Pune, India on 5-27 Nov 2008. In a novel initiative, the conference this year includes a code lab on Google technologies, known in geek terminology as a Hackathon. The Hackathon includes sessions on Google technologies like Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and OpenSocial. These sessions would be followed by a dedicated code lab session where delegates can try out the latest developments with Google technologies like Google Web Toolkit and OpenSocial under the guidance of the expert speakers and Google engineers.

The Groovy language and the Grails framework have slowly but surely grown in prominence. Grails uses the best ideas from the Ruby on Rails world while still continuing to leverage the tried, tested and trusted Java platform as well as established frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. However there has been hardly any community behind Groovy and Grails in India. The Java meet for this month is an attempt to facilitate discussion amongst Groovy and Grails enthusiasts in Pune & India.

India’s pioneering conference on Java technology gets bigger and better in its third year. The conference has always striven to bring great, vendor-neutral & international content. The 2008 event offers unmatched content and value. The conference website http://conference.indicthreads.com now has a preliminary list of speakers and sessions. Do check it out! There’s more coming! Register now to grab some great early bird discounts.

While understanding the popular design patterns is not too difficult, relating them to real applications certainly is. Early on a project lifecycle, developers and architects have to decide on which design patterns to use, decisions that have a major impact on the overall project.

The session at the Java meet this month looks at one of the most common software development questions encountered in recent times – How to use Agile methodology and techniques on large enterprise application projects? Prerana Patil from Oracle Financial Services (formerly i-flex solutions limited) speaks about “Agile Development for Java Enterprise Applications.”