Automation is essential to the success of a software project. It should be straight-forward, easy and fun to implement. Gradle is a new generation of build tools intended to provide just that. The talk will be useful to any developer disappointed in the mainstream tools like Ant and Maven or looking for a better way to build Java projects.

Semantic technologies are becoming more important with every day. Combined with text mining and knowledge extraction techniques they can provide good foundation for new generation of search technologies. In this talk I will show how we combined semantic technologies (RDF, OWL, SKOS), graph engines (Neo4j), search engines (Lucene), knowledge extraction (proprietary technology, OpenNLP) to build advanced search and decision support system

Java Enterprise Architecture Design means much more than just technologies, frameworks and design patterns. For Telecom as the most fast growing cutting edge technologies driven industry it is the approach to creating the base for business processes improvement, operating cost reducing and high effieciency achievement in rapidly changing environment. This presentation shows up the evolution of Telecommunication Industry and transformation of the design of Netcracker’s platform as a core infrastructure component during the last decade.