Java 7 is finally there. Time to look at what we have with Project Coin and where it could help. Imagine, you are using Java 7 in your daily work. Where do you start? Which are the parts you start looking at? This session is going to look into some real life projects and examine the places where Java 7 could help.

The goal of Project Coin was to determine what set of small language changes should be added to JDK 7. A few finally made it into it:
Strings in switch, Binary integral literals and underscores in numeric literals, Multi-catch and more precise rethrow, Improved type inference for generic instance creation (diamond), try-with-resources statement and Simplified varargs method invocation. I will look into some real life examples and show how to apply the new features to enhance your code.

With Java 7 being GA you can start thinking about putting it to work in the Enterprise. But what are the challenges? How does the adoption path look like? What are the reasons you should do it and when? This session looks at the details about putting Java 7 into production. Tells you about things to keep in mind and gives a brief overview about how Enterprises would put it into production.

REST is a technique for providing light weight Web Services and in Java EE the Java API for RESTful Services (JAX-RS) provides the service framework. The Java Persistence API (JPA) provides the data access and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) handles marshalling the persistent entities into and out of XML. Sound great! There are a number of issues developers have to deal with when using them together. In this session we'll look at how to build RESTful services with Eclipse WTP using these standard technologies, their integration points and where the pain points are, and how to avoid them using EclipseLink's advanced REST/JAXB/JPA integrations features.