Our Events

Our events are about learning. Recent meetups have featured Java experts you'd normally only see at major international conferences. Click an event for full details and booking.

Upcoming Events

DubJUG 268 - Tyson Gern & Paolo Brunasti

29 Jul 2026

Join us for DubJUG 268 with Tyson Gern, founder of Colorado's Initial Capacity and former lead of Pivotal Ireland, travelling from Boulder, USA, and Dutch based Italian Paolo Brunasti

Past Events

DubJUG 267 - Live at Squarespace Dublin HQ

17 Jun 2026

Our June meetup sees us live, in-person at Squarespace's Dublin HQ! Come join Java senior software expert, Diana Nanuti (former Devoxx UK speaker), along with Squarespace engineers Shradha Shankar and Darragh Clarke who will shed light on the technology being adopted in their day-to-day working liv...

DubJUG 266 - Kadi McKean & Frithjof Hoffmann

26 May 2026

Meet ReversingLabs Kadi McKean and Frithjof Hoffmann for DubJUG 266 on Tuesday 26th May for an intriguing night of software security stories - simple stuff that has gone so wrong, you'll wonder how these companies, well... got it so wrong!

265 - Trash & Rest

06 May 2026

DubJUG 265, our live in-person event presents Professor Ž (aka Željko Kozina!) Hear why Netflix dumped REST in favour of GraphQL and explore how memory management improves performance, the different parts of Java memory and the various garbage collectors. Book your seat below ⤵️⤵️⤵️

264 - Java AI Tools at Gong HQ

16 Apr 2026

Our live in-person event, DubJUG 264, was hosted by our partner Gong’s HQ on the evening of April 16th. Check out the full talk details by Gong software engineer Vanja Tesin and engineering manager Anthony Brady - and get the recordings below ⤵️⤵️⤵️

262 - How we optimized Santa's travels in Java with Timefold

27 Jan 2026

We're back to get 2026 ignited not with a flame, but an explosion. January sees not one, not two, but three Java Champions visiting Dublin as we again join forces with the JChampions conference to bring you the best! The third and final visitor coming to present his JChampions talk, Optimizing Sant...

261 - Effective Pattern Matching in Java plus Bonus Talk

22 Jan 2026

We're back to get 2026 ignited not with a flame, but an explosion. January sees not one, not two, but three Java Champions visiting Dublin as we again join forces with the JChampions conference to bring you the best! First up is author extraordinaire Cay Horstmann, live in-person on the evening of...

DubJUG 2510 - Bruno Souza

19 Nov 2025

We're privileged and fortunate to welcome Bruno Souza back to the Dublin Java User Group the evening of November 19th. Bruno is known worldwide helping Java developers accelerate their careers beyond coding. It's a night not to be missed if you're in a rut, want inspirational strategies to get ahead...

DubJUG 257 - Haoyi Li

22 May 2025

Author and world renowned open source contributor Haoyi Li visited the Dublin Java User group on 22nd May on a rare visit to Dublin. At this event Haoyi discussed how the experimental build tool "Mill" bridges the gaps of Maven and Gradle, followed by a deep dive into some techniques the Mill build...

DubJUG 256 - Nicolas Fränkel

10 Apr 2025

On a rare visit to Dublin by Nicolas Fränkel, we learned about OpenTelemetry Tracing, along with a walkthrough of End-to-End Pull Request Testing on Kubernetes. As always, drinks and pizza were provided courtesy of our premier partners, Integral Ad Science, Stackand.Co Recruiters and FINEOS. FULL...

DubJUG 255 - The Duke Turns 30

13 Mar 2025

We joined Azul Systems FOOJAY and DubJUG on the evening of Thursday 13th March for DubJUG's Watch Party of Duke Turns 30, a celebrating 30 years of Java

DubJUG 254 - In-Person with Simon Brown

27 Feb 2025

We joined on the evening of Thursday 27th February as author of Software Architecture for Developers, and creator of the C4 Software Architecture Model, Simon Brown delivered two great talks live, in-person. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG 253 - JChampions Series - In-Person with Elias Nogueira

27 Jan 2025

We joined on the evening of Monday 27th January as Dutch based Brazilian Java Champion, Elias Nogueira delivered two great Java testing talks, one of which was streamed worldwide as part of the JChampions Conference 2025. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG October - Steve Poole Came Back!

24 Oct 2024

On the run up to Halloween 2024, Java Champion Steve Poole made a long-awaited return to the Dublin Java User Group to scare the bejesus out of you, the java developer. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG with Red Hat's Sergey Beryozkin

27 Aug 2024

This month, we welcomed long-time open source committer Sergey Beryozkin to the Dublin Java User Group. Currently working at Red Hat, Sergey has a deep interest in OpenId Connect and JSON Web Token (JWT) security. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG with Oracle's Juarez Barbosa Junior

25 Jun 2024

It had been several years since we last had the great pleasure of welcoming Juarez Barbosa Junior to the Dublin Java User Group. On that occasion, we welcomed him back for a session on blazingly fast GenAI app development using Spring AI. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

Apache Kafka Night

07 Mar 2024

We welcomed local Brasilian developer Igor De Souza for a night of Kafka fun! ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG - Java Champion Kevin Dubois

14 Nov 2023

On the evening of Tuesday November 14th we welcomed Red Hat developer Kevin Dubois to join the Dublin Java User Group at TechMeetup.space in the city centre. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG - Java Champion Gerrit Grunwald

31 Oct 2023

Java Champion and Azul developer, Gerrit Grunwald (aka Hansolo) joined us on the evening of Tuesday October 31st at TechMeetup.space in Dublin city centre.

DubJUG - Java Champion Venkat Subramaniam

23 Oct 2023

On a rare appearance in Ireland Java Champion extraordinaire Venkat Subramanian treated us to a 90 minute deep-dive on Refactoring from Imperative to Functional Style. ABSTRACT BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG - Oracle's Kris Foster

21 Sep 2023

We hope you joined us the evening of Thursday September 21st, as the Dublin Java User Group welcomed Kris Foster LIVE in-person at TechMeetup.space to give you solid advice on how to get the most out of your Java applications. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

DubJUG - Java Champion Bruno Souza

17 Jul 2023

We hope you joined us July 17th, as the Dublin Java User Group welcomed Java Champion Bruno Souza LIVE in-person at TechMeetup.space to share secrets of life beyond a senior Java developer. ABSTRACTS BELOW ⤵️

March 2023 - Blockchain & AI Talks

22 Mar 2023

This month the Dublin Java User Group welcomed two local Dublin speakers, Shritesh Jamulkar (Blockchain Corda) and Ahmad Albarqawi (Intelligent Java AI) LIVE in-person at TechMeetup.space.

February 2023 Java Champion Maarten Mulders

28 Feb 2023

We hope you joined us February 28th, as the Dublin Java User Group welcomed Java Champion Maarten Mulders LIVE in-person at TechMeetup.space to present two talks, 'What's Cooking in Maven', and 'React in 50 minutes'.

Red Hat Developer Eric Deandrea - 90 Minute Deep Dive

01 Feb 2023

On February 1st, the Dublin Java User Group welcomed Red Hat Developer Eric Deandrea LIVE in-person at TechMeetup.space to present 'Quarkus for Spring Developers', his 90 minute deep-dive session.

November 2022 - Maurice Naftalin

23 Nov 2022

We hope you joined us in-person on the evening of Wednesday 23rd November at TechMeetup.Space, Dublin city centre, was multi-award winning Java Rockstar and Java Champion, Maurice Naftalin. The event was in-person and livestream. During the day Maurice was running a heavily subsidised Lambda traini...

Learn Lambdas, Streams & Collectors with Maurice

23 Nov 2022

Interested in learning about lambdas streams and collectors in depth? These powerful Java features allow you to implement complex operations clearly and concisely. This one-day course introduces the ideas of lambdas and streams, and then takes you from the basics to advanced use cases.

October 2022 - Java Champion Holly Cummins

02 Nov 2022

Java Champion Holly Cummins was joining us in-person on the evening of Wednesday 2nd November at TechMeetup.Space. She presented 'Cloud Chaos and Microservices Mayhem,' and her brand new, never presented before talk, 'Writing Greener Java Applications.'

September 2022 - Java Champion Matt Raible

28 Sep 2022

Matt Raible, Java Champion, and Okta Developer advocate was back at the Dublin Java User Group on Wednesday 28th September - we had one almighty in-person deep dive - Micro Frontends for Java Developers. Livestream recorded

September 2022 - Java Champion Ixchel Ruiz

14 Sep 2022

In September 2022 Java Champion Ixchel Ruiz joined us from Switzerland to present two outstanding talks, 'DevOps for Java Developers', and 'Framework Agnostic REST API Testing', both choices of our platinum members. Read below for full details... # **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Grou...

August 2022 - IBM's Grace Jansen

24 Aug 2022

IBM's Developer Advocate and Java Champion, Grace Jansen visited the Dublin Java User Group to give 'hands-on' help with open-source technologies and tools (including MicroProfile, Jakarta EE, Open Liberty, OpenJ9, and more!) for the 15 factors needed to build cloud native applications.

June 2022 - Java Champion Simon Ritter

29 Jun 2022

The midsummer of June 2022 saw Java Champion Simon Ritter join us in Dublin, presenting two fabulous sessions; The Art of Java Language Pattern Matching, and Java on CRaC: Superfast JVM Application Start-up.

April 2022 - JavaOne Rockstar, Steve Poole

28 Apr 2022

On Thursday 28th April 2022, the Dublin Java User Group hosted Security Champion and JavaOne Rockstar Steve Poole at TechMeetup.Space in tcube, No.1 O'Connell Street, Dublin. It was an insightful night dedicated to Cybercrime and its bigger more dangerous cousin: Cyber-warfare. We explored the driv...

March 2022 - Java Champion Ivar Grimstad

31 Mar 2022

The Dublin Java User Group hosted Java Champion and Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation, Ivar Grimstad, on Thursday 31st March at TechMeetup.Space in tcube, No.1 O'Connell Street, Dublin. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are designed to enrich the knowledge...

January 2022 - jChampions Conference Watch Party

20 Jan 2022

The Dublin Java User Group hosted a WATCH PARTY of the jChampions Conference 2022 on the afternoons and evenings of Thursday 20th, Friday 21st, Monday 24th, and Tuesday 25th January at TechMeetup.Space in tcube, No.1 O'Connell Street.. **Monday's session will also see local Java Champion Rafael del...

December 2021 - Barry Evans

21 Dec 2021

Local Java developer and DubJUG Co-Lead, Barry Evans, presented DubJUG’s first in-person event (since March 2020) on the evening of December 21st. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are designed to enrich the knowledge and careers of developers and technology professionals. B...

September 2021 - Microsoft's Bruno Borges

30 Sep 2021

Java Champion Bruno Borges visited the Oracle Dublin Java User Group in September. Bruno explained why Microsoft acknowledges and supports the adoption of custom Java runtimes crafted for specific application needs rather than the use of general-purpose Java runtimes. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Du...

Java25 - Celebrating Java's 25th Anniversary

27 Aug 2020

Java celebrated its 25th anniversary that year, and the Dublin Java User Group marked the occasion with a day-long mini-conf, #Java25, on Thursday 27th August in Dublin city centre for 100 developers. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are designed to enrich the knowledge and...

April 2020 - John Ferguson Smart

21 Apr 2020

Test expert John Ferguson Smart visited DubJUG in April — details were shared ahead of the event. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are designed to enrich the knowledge and careers of developers and technology professionals. By booking your seat, you agree to the [booking co...

March 2020 - DeepCodesAI's Frank Fischer

10 Mar 2020

Frank Fischer, head of Developer Relations at DeepCode, the Zurich-based company that uses AI to identify bugs before they happen, came to present at the Dublin Java User Group in the city centre on the evening of Tuesday, March 10th. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are de...

Dec 2019 - Java Champion Otavio Santana

04 Dec 2019

Brazilian Java Champion and Duke Award Winner, Otavio Santana visited the Oracle Dublin Java User Group in December. Subscribers were notified when the talks were announced. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are designed to enrich the knowledge and careers of developers and...

Nov 2019 - Testing Java Microservices with Andy Gumbrecht

06 Nov 2019

Co-author of the highly acclaimed *Testing Java Microservices*, Andy Gumbrecht visited the Oracle Dublin Java User Group in November. Focusing on testing, attendees learned some neat embedded Kafka and Mongo, Arquillian, and GitLab pipeline tests. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group...

Oct 2019 - Quarkus & Revisiting Effective Java in 2019

04 Nov 2019

We have another Java Champion visiting us in October. Edson Yanaga is Director of Developer Experience for Red Hat. In this double bill, Yanaga, as he is affectionately known the world over, will embark upon a live coding session before your very eyes with the supersonic subatomic Java, Quarkus, a...

Oct 2019 - Micronaut Framework with Ryszard Perkowski

08 Oct 2019

“For our first event of October, Polish Java developer Ryszard Perkowski, aka Rick, visited the Oracle Dublin Java User Group for the first time. He presented new kid on the block, Micronaut — a competitor to Spring. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group events are designed to enrich t...

Sept 2019 - Hazelcast Riaz Mohammed

18 Sep 2019

\*\*“Hazelcast’s Riaz Mohammed made his return to the Oracle Dublin Java User Group to walk attendees through how to set up an end-to-end enterprise-grade platform to operationalize Artificial Intelligence using the open-source Hazelcast technology. The Oracle DubJUG event took place at 19:00 on We...

Sept 2019 - Java Champion Matt Raible

10 Sep 2019

Java Champion and author of *The JHipster Mini-Book* and *Spring Live*, Matt Raible, returned to share his expert knowledge — delivering an amazing array of information that enabled new beginnings in many Java careers. The Oracle DubJUG event took place at 19:00 on Tuesday 10th September. **REGIST...

July 2019 - Microprofile and Istio with Java Champion Emily Jiang

31 Jul 2019

We warmly welcomed Java Champion Emily Jiang to the Oracle Dublin Java User Group on Wednesday 31st July. Emily, who works in IBM’s Hursley Lab, is a regular speaker at global events such as Code One, DevNexus, JAX London, Voxxed, Devoxx US, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx UK, Devoxx France, and EclipseCon....

July 2019 - Oleg Selajev - GraalVM for Java Developers

16 Jul 2019

Lead developer advocate at Oracle Labs and Java Champion, Oleg Selajev, took a hop from his native Estonia for a tour of Ireland in July. Oleg explained GraalVM. This Oracle DubJUG event took place at 19:00 on Tuesday 16th July in Dublin city centre. **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Gr...

June 2019 - Lightweight Microservices with Microprofile and Raspberry PIs

19 Jun 2019

Our June event saw Tomitribe’s Director of Engineering, Jean-Louis Monteiro, join us at the Oracle Dublin Java User Group to share his knowledge of Eclipse MicroProfile. Members left with a solid understanding of lightweight microservices and stateless microservice security via JWT, TomEE, and Micro...

March 2019 - Java with Stephen Chin

21 Mar 2019

Our fifth event of 2019 saw Director of the Oracle Groundbreakers Team, global keynote speaker, and Java Rockstar Stephen Chin come to the Oracle Dublin Java User Group on Thursday 21st March. Known the world over for his stage antics and hair-raising motorcycle expeditions, it was a once-in-a-lifet...

March 2019 - Mark Reinhold & Brian Goetz

06 Mar 2019

Our fourth event of 2019 saw Oracle’s keynote speakers Mark Reinhold and Brian Goetz make a journey to the Oracle Dublin Java User Group on Wednesday 6th March. The full talk abstracts were shared below... **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group meetups are designed to enhance the knowle...

January 2019 - Java Features & Modularity with Sander Mak

24 Jan 2019

Our second event of 2019 saw consultant Sander Mak visit us from Holland to talk to us about Java on 24th January. The full talk abstracts were shared below. The Dublin 2 venue was revealed on booking. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group meetups are designed to enhance the knowledg...

January 2019 - The Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service / Juarez Barbosa Jr

22 Jan 2019

Our first evening event of 2019 sees Oracle Developer Advocate Juarez Barbosa Junior talk to us on the Oracle Blockchain, 22nd January. Check out the full talk abstracts below. The Dublin 2 venue is revealed on booking. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group meetups are design...

Java 11 HTTP Client / Java 9 Platform Module System (JPMS)

20 Dec 2018

\*\*“On 20th December 2018, we went totally Java. The talks were presented by Oracle’s Chris Hegarty and Workday engineer and DubJUG member Anton Balaniuc. The full talk abstracts were shared below. The Dublin 2 venue was revealed on booking. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group m...

Eclipse Collections Kata - Barry Evans

13 Dec 2018

On 13th December 2018, DubJUG co-lead Barry Evans presented the Eclipse Collections Kata workshop for members of the Oracle Dublin Java User Group. The full talk abstracts were shared below. The Dublin 2 venue was revealed on booking. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Java User Group meetups a...

Benjamin Nothdurft

15 Nov 2018

On 15th November 2018, we welcomed Benjamin Nothdurft to the Oracle Dublin Java User Group. Benjamin was working for Codecentric at the time, and had formerly been with ePages, the German eCommerce provider that helped over 140,000 businesses get their online shops open. The full talk abstracts we...

Oracle IOT Workshop

30 Oct 2018

On 30th October 2018, we welcomed Tim Graves to the Oracle Dublin Java User Group. Tim worked on architecting cloud-native solutions, including the use of the Oracle IoT Cloud Service to bring data into the environment and enable the creation of digital replicas of physical devices. The full talk a...

elastic Guys Philipp Krenn and David Pilato

11 Oct 2018

For October’s Oracle Dublin Java User Group event, we were privileged to welcome Elastic guys Philipp Krenn and David Pilato, who showed how Elastic can enhance legacy apps and how to monitor Spring Boot applications. This event took place at 19:00 on Thursday 11th October. The full talk abstracts...

Pivotal+Microsoft JUG Tour Europe 2018

08 Oct 2018

We were privileged to host the Irish leg of the Pivotal+Microsoft JUG Tour Europe 2018. This event took place on 8th October 2018 at Dogpatch Labs — doors opened at 18:15, with presentations starting at 19:00 sharp. The full talk abstracts were shared below. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin...

Venkat

22 Sep 2018

On 22nd September 2018, we were incredibly privileged to welcome Dr. Venkat Subramaniam to Dublin and to the Dublin Java User Group again. The full talk abstracts were shared below. The Dublin 2 venue was revealed on booking. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** BOOKING FOR THIS EVENT CLOSES AT 10:00am SATUR...

Scott Sosna's Visualising Open Data with NEO4J

13 Sep 2018

For September’s DubJUG event, we were privileged to welcome Scott Sosna, who works at Dell EMS Greater Minneapolis and also served on the Content Review Committee for JavaOne. This event took place at 19:00 on Thursday 13th September. The full talk abstracts were shared below.. . **REGISTRATION...

Java Champion Matt Raible

12 Sep 2018

It had been over ten years since we first met Java Champion and author of *The JHipster Mini-Book* and *Spring Live*, Matt Raible, and we were delighted and privileged to welcome him again to share his expert knowledge in his session ‘Bootiful Development with Spring Boot and React’. This event too...

Java Rockstar & Java Champion Sebastian Daschner

09 Aug 2018

For our first DubJUG August event, we were privileged to welcome from Germany Java Champion, Java Rockstar, and Oracle Developer Champion Sebastian Daschner, who shared his expert knowledge in two talks: ‘Cloud Native, Service-Meshed Java Enterprise With Istio’ and ‘7 Principles of Productive Softwa...

Java - Containers and Serverless

26 Jul 2018

For the last DubJUG event in July, we welcomed Matthew Gilliard, who works at Oracle UK. Matthew shared his expert knowledge around containers and serverless. This event took place at 19:00 on Thursday 26th July. The full talk abstracts were shared below. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin Jav...

Docker Workshop with Barry Evans

19 Jul 2018

Due to demand and a 'sold-out' workshop in June, DubJUG co-lead Barry Evans is giving you the chance to attend his highly interactive hands-on workshop Docker for Java Developers on the evening of July 19th. . Check out the full workshop abstract below. Doors 18:15 / Prompt Start 19:00. . **REGI...

Building Reactive Microservices with Spring Boot 2.0

05 Jul 2018

For the DubJUG May event, we welcomed back Brian Matthews, long-term DubJUG member and now JUG leader in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, who presented on building reactive microservices using the soon-to-be-released 2.0 version of Spring Boot, along with cloud-native applications. Doors opened at 18:15, and...

Live Coding with Spring Music: Top 5 Ways to Deploy Java to the Cloud

27 Jun 2018

For the DubJUG June event, we welcomed back Brian Benz, a Microsoft Advocate on Java technologies. This presentation built upon his highly acclaimed talk at DubJUG in November 2017, followed by a session on serverless. The full talk abstracts were shared below. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dubli...

Cache Abstraction with Hazelcast

13 Jun 2018

For our second DubJUG event in June, we welcomed Riaz Mohammed from Hazelcast, the leading in-memory data management company, who discussed Hazelcast’s integration with Spring. Alongside Riaz, DubJUG member Anton Balaniuc from Workday provided insight into Java 8 Streams. This event was sponsored b...

Docker Workshop with Barry Evans

07 Jun 2018

On the evening of 7th June, DubJUG co-lead Barry Evans ran a highly interactive hands-on workshop giving a brief introduction to using Docker for Java Developers. The full workshop abstract was shared below. Doors opened at 18:15, with a prompt start at 19:00. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dublin...

vJUG - Jenkins X with James Strachan / Java 8 Streams with Anton Balaniuc

05 Jun 2018

Our first DubJUG in June saw a ‘tune-in’ to vJUG’s online meetup with James Strachan, where he covered Jenkins X, followed by a presentation on Java 8 Streams by local developer and DubJUG Platinum Member Anton Balaniuc. The full talk abstracts were shared below. . **REGISTRATION NOTES** The Dub...

Building Reactive Microservices with Spring Boot 2.0

24 May 2018

For the DubJUG May event, we welcomed back Brian Matthews, long-term DubJUG member and now JUG leader in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, who presented on building reactive microservices using the soon-to-be-released 2.0 version of Spring Boot, along with cloud-native applications. The full talk abstracts we...

Serverless Deep Dive with Bert Ertman

24 Apr 2018

Our April event welcomed fellow and Director of Technology Outreach at Luminis, Bert Ertman. A frequent speaker on Java, cloud, and software architecture all over the world, Bert is a book author and serial conference organizer. Bert Ertman was awarded the coveted title of Java Champion in 2008, and...

Starting out with JUnit 5

11 Apr 2018

. On the evening of 11th April, DubJUG co-lead Barry Evans ran a workshop built upon a session he attended at JavaOne. Barry presented *Starting Out with JUnit 5*. Doors opened at 18:15 (evening session). . Barry's workshop builds upon a JavaOne session he attended that was run by Jeanne Boyars...

Class Loaders, Spring and Java with Simon Maple

28 Mar 2018

Our March event was special! We hosted Java Champion and JavaOne Rockstar Simon Maple, Virtual JUG founder, London Java Community co-leader, RebelLabs author, and Duke’s Choice award winner. Simon presented.. # **Do You Really Get Class Loaders** ##and # **Productive and Effective Development wi...

Microservices in Action at the Dutch National Police & Vert.x

22 Feb 2018

For our second DubJUG event of 2018, we were very honoured to have Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, and leader of the NLJUG, Bert Jan Schrijver, come to Dublin to share his immense knowledge with our community. But this was not academic stuff! He shared real-life project cases, discussed why and how...

Java Challenges - An Interactive Quiz Testing You!

13 Dec 2017

Our last event of 2017 saw Barry Evans and Rafael Chinelato Del Nero present *10 Java Challenges*, an interactive Java quiz that stretched attendees’ grey matter. Representing the Dublin Java User Group, the duo had first presented *Java Challenges* at JavaOne and had since put developers in Belfast...

Class Loaders, Spring and Java with Simon Maple

06 Dec 2017

Our March event was special! We hosted Java Champion and JavaOne Rockstar Simon Maple, founder of the Virtual JUG, co-leader of the London Java Community, RebelLabs author, and Duke’s Choice award winner. Simon presented... # **Do You Really Get Class Loaders** ##and # **Productive and Effective...

Java 9 and the Eclipse Collection with Nikhil Nanivadekar

28 Nov 2017

Towards the end of November, we hosted the lead of the Eclipse Collections project, Nikhil Nanivadekar, as he whistle-stopped around Europe and beyond. Nikhil, who is also a VP at Goldman Sachs, was a regular sight at the world’s top Java conferences. Nikhil presented... # **How to Make a Project...