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

Among the many things I do here at Sun -- insert yet-to-be written bio weblog here --, I'm helping a team with a demo for JavaOne. It's a cool concept. Think of a portal on your desktop and you have the idea. The tool basically aggregates and pulls content from various webservices so you have all your favorite web information at your fingertips. I haven't checked yet, but the team was going to add blogs.sun.com to the RSS reader. Another "channel" is going to be content from bugdatabase on bugs.sun.com.

We recently launched bugdatabase (late May). The similiar look and feel (and the fact that we kept the same login servlet) to bugparade which lived on our EOL'ed site http://developer.java.sun.com hides the fundamental changes we did. bugparade was a lot of scripts that replicated the content up to a production server, now we have a dynamic database driven app, with a yet un-announced webservice. We are going to change the webservice APIs for reasons too long to get into here, but we hope to be done with that in September -- insert usual caveat about schedules here --, then can we tell everyone about it.

Anyway I'm disgressing, back to the demo. It's a Swing application so will be at the Swing and Java 2D pods in the Java Pavillion. The engineers who wrote it will be at the pods at 11AM and 3PM on Mon, Tue, Wed.

More about the demo will be coming.