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Graphs in the Cloud: Spring + Neo4j on Heroku 2 days ago

Last week I hosted a webinar about running Java apps on Heroku that use the Spring Framework and the Neo4j graph database. Here is the recording of that webinar: In the webinar I began by deploying a copy of the Spring MVC + Hibernate template app from heroku.com/java on Heroku. Then I made a few …

Play 2 Java Tutorial last week

I’ve created a Play 2 Tutorial and posted it on GitHub! The tutorial covers how to: Create a Play App Set up an IDE Start the Play Server Routes Test a Route Update a Controller Test a Controller Update a View Test a View Deploy your app on the Cloud with Heroku Create a Model [...]

Heroku, Java, Play and Neo4j Presos: Denver JUG, Atlanta … last week

Over the next couple weeks I’ll be doing two Java User Group presentations, a Flash Platform User Group presentation and one Webinar. Hope to see you at one of these events: Wednesday May 9 – Denver Java User Group: Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps in the Cloud Thursday May 10 …

Heroku Presos: Denver Open Source UG and Future Insights … 2 weeks ago

This week I’ll be doing two presentation about Heroku: Tuesday May 1 – 5:30 PM at the Denver Open Source Users Group:Heroku Cloud Computing Platform Thursday May 3 – 12:25pm at Future Insights Live (Las Vegas):Client/Server Apps with HTML5 and Java Hope to see you there!

WebJars in Spring MVC 2 weeks ago

Last week I announced the WebJars project that allows you to specify your web libraries (JavaScript, CSS, etc) as dependencies in your Java web applications. With some help from Jeremy Grelle I was able to get a simple WebJars Spring MVC example working. First you will need to add the WebJars …

Introducing WebJars – Web Libraries as Managed Dependencies 3 weeks ago

Our web apps are using more and more web libraries like jQuery, Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap. The traditional way to use those libraries is to locate & download the JavaScript and CSS source then just copy it into a project. To me this resembles how we used to just copy JAR files into a …

Heroku for Java, Scala & Play at the Houston JUG and NFJS … 3 weeks ago

This week I will be presenting about Running Java, Scala, and Play apps on Heroku at the Houston JUG and at No Fluff Just Stuff in Reston, VA: Houston JUG – Wednesday April 25 at 6:30pmRunning Java and Play! Apps on the Cloud NFJS – Reston, VA – Saturday April 28 at …

Play Framework 2 & HTML5 on Heroku at Philly ETE and … last month

Over the next few weeks I’ll be doing a few presentations about Java, Scala, Play Framework 2, HTML5, and Heroku: Wednesday April 11 @ 11:30am – Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (Philedephia, PA) – HTML5 Apps in Java & Scala with the Play Framework Wednesday April …

Java on Heroku at NH JUG and DevNexus 2012 last month

This week I’ll will be doing a few presentations about running Java and Play apps on Heroku: Portsmouth, NH on Tuesday March 20 @ 6:30pm – Running Java, Play! and Scala Apps on the Cloud DevNexus in Atlanta, GA on Wednesday March 21 @ 1pm – Introduction to Heroku DevNexus in …

Screencast: Java Template Apps on Heroku 2 months ago

Today Heroku launched a new way to get started deploying Java apps on the cloud. There are four different template apps you can start with including a Spring + Hibernate + Tomcat app, a Containerless Jetty app, a Play! app, and a JAX-RS app. Pick a template and with a few clicks a copy of [...]

James Ward

Developer Evangelist at Heroku http://jamesward.com

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