At the JavaCro'14 conference held recently Evolva has presented latest trends related to the use of Evolution Framework in business web application development. Lectures given by Evolva's speakers have aroused a great interest and the audience assigned them high ratings in individual thematic categories and in the overall ranking of all lectures.

This year's conference was held in May 12-13 at the hotel Diamant in Poreč, Croatia. The organizers, the Croatian Java User Assocation (CroJUA) and the Croatian Oracle User Group have pointed out that 50 lectures were held during the two-day conference and more than 200 participants from 11 countries have participated.

Evolva has started its contribution to JavaCro conferenced back in 2011 when it supported the establishment of CroJUA and thus encouraged the exchange of experiences among the Java community. It is therefore understandable that Evolva was the main sponsor od this year's conference, and its presenters accepted the organizers' invitation to, along with other domestic and foreign experts, present their experiences in using Java technology.

To everyone who is in touch with old desktop applications, it was interesting to hear lecture given by Matija Tomašković about successful migration project implemented in Privredna banka Zagreb. At the lecture entitled Desktop2web migration is finished, 700.000+ lines of code is reborn Matija talked about how the idea of automatic converter was born and what were the goals of this project, then he explained 6 major phases of migration and showed Evolution Framework's tools that are used after the migration from the old technology to the modern Java web environment to enable an efficient Java web development and the upgrade of converted applications. The audience expressed their positive impressions by assigning high marks in the category called "Business technologies and case studies", and the lecture also received a second place in the overall ranking of all lectures. A lecture (in Croatian) can be seen here:

On the second day of the conference Matija Tomašković and Daniel Strmečki, at the workshop entitled Hybrid mobile apps - deploy Java web application on Android to run offline, showed how can business web applications run on Android devices without a permanent internet access. At the end of the lecture they answered all questions from the audience and the lecture was ranked as the best in category "Web & mobile". A lecture (in Croatian) is available here: