The Kitchen Sink Weblog: Tales from Sun's internet facing edge

Tuesday was my first day at JavaOne. And a full day it was at that. Started out with Scott's keynote. Scott is always entertaining and he did not disappoint this time. I liked his interaction with the Brazil contingent and his comments on the Duke awards.

Spent most of my afternoon hanging at booth 1016, which is the Swing pod where we are showing Project Alameda and asking people to take the survey. It's a little odd showing what is essentially is an application where most people are expecting a demo of a particular technology, but it mostly worked, and one of the points of Alameda is that it is an example of Swing. You get a lot of diverse questions at a show like JavaOne. One guy wanted to talk about Swing vs. SWT (Eclipse caused some contraversy by choosing not to use Swing), turns out there was a BOF on that very topic, we could direct him to. I was glad the Alameda developers were there because there were a lot of questions about the choices they made from whether they used layout managers that the IDEs provide (the answer is no) to what Swing component was used to popup a larger version of the image in the Amazon tool. I can talk knowledgeably about production web sites, but in the client world I'm a real newbie.

There was also the never ending stream of folks with questionaires looking for the answer to the question about the new feature in 5.0 that you can attach to any swing component. The other demo in the booth is called Glow, it's a nice calendar tool and shows off this new feature.

There were some rumours flying around the show about 'project watson' so just for the record, it's project alameda, and no we didn't acquire karelia although we do have an licensing agreement with them.

Stop on by booth 1016 if you are at the show, hope to see you there. Kathy