Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Monday August 25, 2008
LOTD #5: Blogging Gold for Sun - Forrester loves it!
A recent
report by Forrester Research published a list of 15 companies
that really get corporate blogging and produce blogs that are
informative, fascinating, and a joy to read even for people who aren’t
die-hard fans of the company. Here is what the report says about Sun
Microsystems:
Like Adobe, Sun allows
their employees to blog. They’ve been doing it for a long time, and
their blog portal has over 4,500 bloggers covering over 110,000 posts.
Some of their blogs, such as that of Web 2.0 and Web Services
Evangelist Arun Gupta, have become quite popular on their own. That’s
110,000 posts of promotional gold for Sun and they know it.
Here are recent statistics of blogs.sun.com:
That's a comment for each post! I'm happy that this blog contibutes
it's share.
All previous entries in this series are archived at LOTD.
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Wednesday July 23, 2008
FREE Hosting for Facebook & OpenSocial Developers - Social App Program
Are you developing Facebook
and/or OpenSocial
applications ?
Would you like to deploy them and monetize before spending any money on
infrastructure ?
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Social App Program
is a new collaborative offering from Sun
Microsystems and Joyent
that allows you to do exactly that! It allows you to leverage
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Sun's renowned reliable servers and storage for deploying critical
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All details are available here. Also read the official press release.
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Saturday April 05, 2008
GlassFish Metro Web Services Training Course
Interested
in understanding the nitty gritty details of how Metro in GlassFish
provides Secure, Reliable, Transactional and .NET 3.0 interoperable Web
services ? You can certainly read all about it in Metro Users Guide,
post questions to Metro
Forum, subscribe to Metro Blogs
or The
Aquarium.
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But now there is a new 5 hours Web-based course, WTMB-SAS-1500,
from Sun Training.
The course content is organized in 5 different modules:
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Here are some other related courses:
- WMT-SAS-1536: GlassFish Application Server Introduction
- WMTB-SAS-1600: GlassFish Application Server Administration Bundle
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Wednesday April 02, 2008
Read more about the April
Fool pranks played at Sun over past years.
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Wednesday March 26, 2008
Ruby Developer Center @ Sun Developer Network - New Webpage
Ruby Developer
Center is a new page launched today that is a one stop page
for any thing & everything about Ruby, JRuby, Rails and all
related efforts @ Sun
Microsystems. Here are couple of new articles to get you
started:
- NetBeans, Solaris, GlassFish: The Ruby's Red Slippers Fit
- Rails powered by the GlassFish Application Server
The Overview tab provides a pointers to Getting Started and key Ruby events. In the Reference tab, you can find out about documentation about using Ruby with Solaris, NetBeans, GlassFish, Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL & JavaDB). The Community tab gives pointers to blogs, forums and participation opportunities. Finally Download tab provides a single page to download all related Tools & Platforms.
Let us know what else would you like to see on the website.
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Friday March 21, 2008
Ajax World East 2008 - Day 2 Report
I delivered my Maki
as an Ajax Mashup Framework talk and the slides are available
here.
Lots of attendees came by afterwards and told me that they enjoyed the
demo. The talk showed how jMaki
Webtop provides a lightweight mashup framework that runs in
the browser. Here is a pictorial representation of the demo shown:
jMaki Webtop is basically a jMaki widget that can be embedded in a JSP
or PHP page. This widget provides the framework for managing widgets
and users, ability to persist the Webtop on client-side using Google
Gears or server-side using backend database, layouts and other
functionality. In JSP case, the widget uses JPA for performing all the
CRUD operations with the back-end MySQL database. The resulting WAR
file is deployed on GlassFish
(can be any other Servlet container as well). If you are interested in
a Java version of Webtop then the recommended path is:
- Create services & widgets using NetBeans
- Deploy them on GlassFish
- jMaki webtop for widget deployment & customization
I attended few more talks and took notes in some of them to share:
- Can we fix the Web ?
- Accelerate Ajax development with Appcelerator
- REST & Ajax Reconciled
- Understanding the Top Web 2.0 Attack Vectors
- Building Web 2.0 Applications with Project Zero
- OpenAjax Widgets & Gadgets
Can we fix the Web ?
This was an early morning talk (7:30am) and I reached few minutes late. But it was basically talking about JavaScript vulnerabilities such as
- Script injection
- No difference between user & guest scripts
- Scripts exempt from same-origin policy
- No modularity (global access to everything on the page)
Doug recommended 3-step plan to fix the Web:
- Safe JavaScript subset
- JSLint.com provides a safe subset of JavaScript that removes all features that are unsafe or suspect such as no global vars or functions
- Google Caja & Cajita provide a similar subet but they use transformation instead of validation
- Minor browser improvements
- Scripts are exempt from same-origin policy. This allows a dynamic <script> tag to make a GET request from a server. Instead use JSONRequest (part of json.org).
- ES4 (the upcoming JavaScript standard) is not good enough because it maintains backwards compatibility and adds complexity.
- Major browser improvements
- Replace JavaScript & DOM in browsers. The approach is to start with JSLint and add safe features as required.
- The Object Capability System (where objects are given explicit access to be used) needs to be enforced to make it secure.
The second talk was on Accelerate Ajax development with Appcelerator by Appcelerator CEO.
The talk started with a "not too long back" introduction of the technology space. Well, it started with 1991 and the timeline (and associated technology advances in that year) kept shuffling 1995, 1989, 2001 .... and so on. Jeff talked about how/why Tim Berners Lee invented WWW and covered a myriad of terms after that including but not limited to - Web 1.0, Netscape, Mosaic, marc Andreeeseen (sp?), Java, java Web Start, Applets, W3C, CGI, J2EE, JCP, C#, JBoss, SOA, JavaFX, Silverlight, AIR and many others. For a 50 minute talk, that was quite a long introduction.
After that introduction, he word "Ajax" was mentioned almost 30 minutes (8:51am to be precise) in the talk. And then the word "Appcelerator" was mentioned at 9:06am. Finally, I realized that I'm in the right talk ;)
Appcelerator like to pitch themselves as RIA + SOA company and allows true decoupling of the rich client from it's services. Their services is very similar to jMaki but they use event handling + Ajax + DHTML to achieve it. They also run on Ruby, PHP, Java and other languages.
All in all, it was a good walk through the memory lane!
The next one was REST & Ajax Reconciled.
The talk explained the basic concepts of REST - Resource, URI, Representation, URL & Methods (GET, PUT, POST & DELETE). It also explained the idempotency and safety of each method type. Overall a good decent introduction.
Then it explained the limitations with current web-based forms:
- The URIs in the action attribute cannot be changed dynamically
- Most browsers recognize only GET/POST methods
- Limited ecodings - for example generating JSON encoding requires extra work.
- Does it have resource-based approach ?
- Acknowledges existing of representation ?
- need multiple of them
- Solid engineering & community support ?
- Apache Cocoon - based on XML pipelines & URL patterns, powerful but steep learning curve
- RESTlet - Like Servlet for REST, good for existing model
- Apache Sling - Based on JCR with server-side scripting support
The speaker recommended Apache Sling with µjax for all REST + Ajax needs. But I'd strongly encourage you to have a look at Jersey. The JSON representation generated out of Jersey can now be directly consumed by jMaki as described here - a true combination of REST & Ajax :)
And then the last talk where I took notes is Understanding the Top Web 2.0 Attack Vectors. I'll provides notes from the last 5 slides of the talk which essentially captured the essence. These slides talked about fundamental issues with Ajax and described concerns and possible attacks in each issue. I'll need to understand some of these attacks better myself but at least I have a list to begin with :)
Here you go:
- Client-side
- Concerns
- Transparency
- Cross-domain communication
- Exposed business logic (View Source)
- Local & Offline data storage
- Attacks
- Cross-site scripting, DNS Rebinding
- Business logic bypass
- Variable tampering
- Protocol hijacking
- Function clobbering
- JavaScript hijacking
- Protocols
- Concerns - new protocols on top of HTTP
- SOAP
- XML-RPC
- REST
- Attacks
- Traditional
- Man-in-the-middle
- Spoofing
- Recursive Payloads
- Schema Poisoning
- Information Sources
- Concerns
- Integrity
- Transient
- Diverse (RSS, Blogs, Email, ...)
- Attacks
- Untrusted content
- Poisoned Cache (HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability)
- DNS Issues
- Information Structure
- Concerns - Variations of data structure
- RSS
- Atom
- JSON
- Serialized data
- Attacks
- Malicious injection
- Parser implementations
- Server-side Issues
- Concerns
- Architecture Weaknesses
- Multiple languages & implementations
- Increase & fragmented attack surfaces
- Unknown request origin
- Authorization & Authentication in complex environment
- Attacks
- Traditional
- Information disclosure, Logical attributes, Denial-of-service
- Command Injection
- LDAP, SQL, XPath etc.
OpenAjax Alliance talk about Gadgets & Widgets was nice. The alliance is working on creating standards for widget metadata, communication across widgets and other similar tasks. The goal is to enable successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies.
Dave Ferraiolo (from OpenAjax) particularly expressed thanks to jMaki for deriving the first set of Open Ajax Data Model specs from jMaki data models.
That's it!
Check out some of the pictures:
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The complete album is available at:
I had to leave at the end of Day 2 because of unfavorable health condition. But I'm glad at least I could deliver my talks :) Now I need to be back-in-shape before my upcoming trip next Tuesday!
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Tuesday March 18, 2008
Ajax World East 2008 - Day 1 Report
Ajax World East 2008 started earlier today.
I delievered my "Web 2.0 Application development using jMaki" and the
slides are available here.
There were several demos shown in the talk (using NetBeans and GlassFish)
and they are all accessible at the links mentiond below:
Anyway I attended 3 more talks today and took notes to share:
- Picking the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications
- Performance Tuning your Ajax Applications
- Performance Paradigm of a Mashup World
The first talk I attended was: Picking the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications. I got little late and the session was packed with attendees standing way outside the room so I joined them.
- Seamless deployment on client
- High penetration of runtime
- Web browser independence
- Fast client/server communication protocol
- Robust security
| Pros of Ajax | Cons of Ajax |
| No deployment required | Ajax apps are browser depdendent |
| 100+ Frameworks | 100+ Frameworks |
| Open Source, no need to purchase software license | Expensive due to long cycle, skilled developers demand top rate |
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| Network communication speed is not optimizedf for Ajax requests |
And then basically it talked about the three technologies and their pros & cons are well captured in the slides.
The second session I attended was Performance Tuning your Ajax Applications. This was an interesting session and I learned a few tricks. Interstingly we have implemented quite a few of these performance enhancements in jMaki already.
Improving the performance of Ajax applications require tuning the following parameters:
- Number of requests
- Reduce number of JavaScript files that are loaded. This is the most important since each request to the backend adds extra cost. Even when the scripts are cached, the browser still makes a request (unless Since-Modified header is set correctly).
- Typical approaches are to concatenate the files at dev time or at runtime based upon request.
- Dev time approaches
- Ant - concat all JS files using <concat> task
- Dojo - Run Rhino over all provide/requires and then concatenate the files
- Command-line
- Run time approaches - Concatenation happens depending upon the request. Cons are:
- Server-side dependent
- Makes it harder to distribute code
- Server is loaded as concatenation happens on server (mitigated with caching)
- Works for <15 JS files
- Does not track dependency
- Size of requests
- Remove white spaces and comments (Packer, Dojo, YCompresser, SafeCompress, ShrinkSafe are some of the tools)
- Shorten the variable names
- Gzip the code
- Semicolon is optional but needed if you remove EOL (careful when compressing the code)
- Drastically reduces the file size (e.g. Apache XAP reduced the file size from 330 kb to 70 kb)
- Lots of gzip tools
- Need to put appropriate headers so that browsers recognize gzipped content
- Coding Style
- Single line "if" and "for" do not need "{ }"
- Combine var declarations into a single var such as var x=1, y = 2;
- Use JavaScript style object
- Time of requests
- Time of initial code completion
- Minimize the time that is executed @ start up
- Bring the data once the initial page is loaded
- Show images telling users that something is going on
- Distracts user from the time it's taking
- Other tips
- Don't write your own parser - use the native parsers
- "If" statement optimization
- Use the native facilities like getElementById() or getElementByTagName()
- Consider different approaches of DOM creation
- Tail Recursion
- Setting the value in innerHTML
- Consider JSON over DOM for object graph traversal - JSON could be much faster
My third talk of the day was Performance Paradigm of a Mashup World.
This talk given by Vice President of Webmetrics and laid a special emphasis on "Collaborative Monitoring" for performance measuring any mashup. This process involves not only monitoring your own application, but also setting up agents that measure performance with other services being invoked in the mashup, their further partners and so on. It also talked about a layered approach of using:
- Standard monitoring - HTML page load time, DNS request processing time, etc.
- Pixel Mapping monitoring - required mainly for GUI intensive application
- Web services monitoring - Used for partner monitoring
- Know your apps
- Learn where the points are in your ecosystem
- Measure your perspective
- Monitor your APIs
- Collaborate within your organization
- Collaborate with your partners & customers
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The expo hall opens tomorrow and Sun's booth is right between the ballroom and the main door to expo hall, can't miss us ;)
The complete album is available at:
The Internet connection at the Roosevelt hotel is painfully slow inspite of charging $14.95/night where as most of the "modern" hotels offer free wireless :(
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Monday March 17, 2008
Ajax World New York 2008 - This Week
Sun Microsystems is a
Gold sponsor of Ajax
World East 2008. The event kick starts in New York City
tomorrow and you can see the complete agenda here.
From Sun speakers, you'll hear how jMaki, GlassFish Comet,
GlassFish
and NetBeans
provide an easy-to-use and industry-grade platform to develop and
deploy Rich
Internet Applications. Here is the list of Sun sessions:
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Here is my wish list of sessions that I'd like to attend:
It's only a wish list cause I'll be spending time at Sun booth in the Expo Floor as well and this is New York City ;)
See ya there!
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Thursday January 10, 2008
Meet Agraj Mangal - Sun Campus Ambassador for Delhi University
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As mentioned
earlier, we have recruited a new student under
Sun
Campus Ambassador Program. Meet Agraj Mangal - a student of Masters of Computer Applications (equivalent to MS Computers but a 3 year program) from Delhi University. He has already started a blog - Kreativity Personified. If you are a student and would like to learn about Sun technologies then subscribe to his blog and have fun in the "quest of learning and sharing knowledge". |
I met him when I presented on GlassFish @ Delhi University last year. He was selected after an intensive interview process after that. I'm glad he got selected cause he certainly impressed me with the short interaction at the University. I think he is going to be a great ambassador for our technologies. As first "assignment" in his new role, all the students in the Computer Science Department are already using GlassFish and NetBeans for all their projects. So these students will already be GlassFish and NetBeans-enabled when they graduate.
Agraj has already started Java User Group and Open Solaris User Group in the University. Please feel free to bug him for any GlassFish and NetBeans related queries :) In order to help Agraj with his GlassFish quest, I'll create a "GlassFish For Schools" packet.
Read more about why Sun started Campus Ambassador program and other interesting details here.
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Thursday December 06, 2007
Sun and Academic Institutions Together
I presented on GlassFish and related technologies (Metro, JRuby-on-GlassFish and jMaki) at the Department of Computer Science, Delhi University earlier this week. A more detailed blog describing that visit will be published later. But this blog is an attempt to create a summary of the main efforts that Sun has to offer to academic institutions.
The complete portfolio of Sun programs and solutions for the educational and research communities is listed here. More specific details are given below:
- Sun Software Programs for Education - Offers special discounts to Education community on software licenses, training and software support
- Sun Technology and Academic Resources (STAR) for Education and Research - STAR provides grants, collaborations and technology resources to educational institutions.
- SDN Academic Developer Program empowers Academic Developers through sharing, collaboration and open innovation. It offers tools, resources and communities in which to participate and share.
- Sun
Academic Initiative is a program designed to introduce students to Sun
technologies and equip them with skills in their chosen fields of study. The
students get access to
- Latest Sun technologies
- High quality instruction and curriculum and course paths that lead to certification
- Courses that can be integrated into degree program
Read the entire program guide here. Apply for Sun Academic Initiative here.
- Campus Ambassador (CA) program provides extensive training to a chosen student from a University on different Sun's open technologies including Java, NetBeans, GlassFish. This allow students to lead Sun's open source developer community in campus, run demos, promote Sun training events on campus and Sun tools to faculty. The chosen CA is paid a stipend :)
- Student Zone provides details for students and new graduates. This page also lists country-specific events, for example Sun India University Program.
- Sun's Real-world technology courses that earn you a certificate.
- Subscribe to Sun Student Connection monthly newsletter. It provides you latest news on open source developer tools, technology resources and a range of developer topics.
Finally, get started by submitting resume. Hope you find this useful!
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Tuesday November 27, 2007
FOSS.IN schedules now available - Almost 1600 registrants
FOSS.IN schedules are finally published, phew!
The conference is starting next Monday and this is living on the edge! This is the 7th year of the conference and I hope the scheduling is done little more in advance next year. This will allows us non-Bangaloreans to plan our activities around FOSS :)
I'll be giving "Packaging Java Applications for Ubuntu Platform" on Dec 4th, 4pm in A/120. See you there!
I'll publish the slides here after the talk.
Here are some other talks that I'd like to attend:
| Date | Topic | Time |
| 12/6, Thu | FOSS.IN inaguration | 10:00am-10:30am |
| 12/6, Thu | User to Hacker in 90 minutes: The Tools and Techniques needed to actually contribute to Open Source | 3:30pm-5:00pm |
| 12/7, Fri | The Virtuous Cycle: Sun's FOSS philosophy and strategy | 11:30am-1:00pm |
| 12/7, Fri | Hacking the Fox | 3:30pm-5:00pm |
I'd like to attend some talks on 12/8 but have to catch a flight in the afternoon. But otherwise the momentum is building pretty strong with almost 1600 registrants.
And then of course, you can find me around the GlassFish booth in the Expo.
Some more rant ...
- There is no conference planner on the website. You already saw my workaround above :)
- Why a Certificate is required for viewing individual session details ?
Here is the certificate warning presented by Firefox:
At least get the certificate by a Trusted Authority :(
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Wednesday November 21, 2007
I'll be attending FOSS.IN, Dec 4-8 in Silicon Valley of India (more popularly known as Bangalore). This is going to be my first formal conference in India so I am excited! Find me and talk anything about GlassFish.
Sun Microsystems has held open systems to be the cornerstone of its business philosophy since the beginning. Today, through shared technology innovation, Sun's continued commitment to Open Source is reflected in its leadership and key contributions to the many projects including GlassFish, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice.org, GNOME, Grid Engine, java.net, NetBeans, and Mozilla. And here as well, Sun is a Principal Sponsor of the event.
Here are some important links:
- When ? Dec 4-8, 2007
- Where ? National Science Symposium Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Schedule - At this this this is a list of all the events happening with NO date/time/location assigned to them. It seems slightly late knowing that the conference is less than 3 weeks ago. And of course there is no individualized page where I can pick/choose the sessions of my interest.
- Register here - The registration process is slightly confusing by introducing different kinds of delegates and the way payment is made. It is primitive too because you register on the Web and then pay at the event (no Credit Card payments). The rules are stern, for example no reissuing of conference badge.
- Know more - Join the Mailing List. The traffic is becoming high as the date is approaching.
- Live stats of registered attendees is a good. More than 1000 delegates have registered so far with a significant chunk from outside Bangalore (like me :).
- FOSS.IN is still Looking for Volunteers, help them out!
Where can you find Sun ?
- Talks
- "The OpenSolaris Project: Getting Involved" by Jim Grisanzio
- "PostgreSQL 8.3: a Story of Hundreds of Patches" by Josh Berkus
- "The Virtuous Cycle: Sun's FOSS Philosophy and Strategy" by Simon Phipps
- "OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded: The First Year" by Roger Brinkley
- "Packaging Java Applications for Ubuntu Platform" by Harpreet Singh
- Project Days
- Open Solaris
- OpenOffice
- Sun Booths
- In the hallways
- Elsewhere in the conference
Where can you find me ?
- Around GlassFish Booth in the Expo
- Likely giving 1 or more BoF
- Likely giving 1 or more Lightning Talk
- Taking pictures
What can you do before the event ?
- Download GlassFish
- Try one or more screencasts to get a feel
- Where can you hear the latest and greatest about GlassFish - Of course, TheAquarium. So use your favorite RSS reader and subscribe to it.
- Find and talk to me about GlassFish, I'd love to hear your feedback.
- And you can monitor other Sun FOSS.IN bloggers.
And of course, I'm looking forward to feast on Sambar/Dosa - one of the finest dishes in the whole world :)
I'll be there, will you ? Stay tuned for pictures from the event!
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Sunday September 30, 2007
The first ever GlassFish Day, as part of Sun Tech Days, wrapped up last week. The event started with around approximately 60 attendees and a good part stayed all the way late in the day. The slides of all the sessions are available here and read a complete coverage of the event here. Ed Ort particularly talked to some of the attendees and captured the dialog as part of his report.
GlassFish is not only a fully open-source, production-quality and Java EE 5 compatible Application Server, it is also a community. And that's why Raffaele from Imola presented on "Imola JBI Binding components" as part of Open ESB story.
There were lot of attendees who came at the GlassFish Booth and were interested in finding out how to get started. Really it's very simple - Download, Use and Let us know. And this one image captures the distinguishing feature set of GlassFish V2:
The pictures below show how the attendees were involved and enjoyed the sessions.
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View the complete album here:
See you in Beijing Tech Days!
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Thursday September 20, 2007
GlassFish, Metro, Jersey and jMaki @ Rome and Milan Sun Tech Days
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Sun Tech Days
are coming to
Rome (Sep 24-25) and
Milan
(Sep 26-28). This is FREE event organized by Sun Microsystems. Basically Tech Days are scaled down versions of Java One packed into a suitcase and brought right to where the developers are as described by Renita Stafford, Program Manager of Sun Tech Days. |
The agenda for both the venues is very comprehensive with technical sessions, hands-on-labs, community participation, and complete days focused on a product such as GlassFish Day, NetBeans Day and Open Solaris Day. I'll be giving several presentations on Metro, Jersey and jMaki.
| Rome | Sep 24 | 2:10-3:00pm | Technologies for Creating Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications |
| Rome | Sep 25 | 11:00am-12:00pm | Metro and REST : Web Services with JAX-WS, WSIT, JAX-RS and More |
| Milan | Sep 26 | 6:20pm-7:10pm | Metro Web services |
| Milan | Sep 27 | 2:10pm-3:00pm | Metro and REST : Web Services with JAX-WS, WSIT, JAX-RS and More |
See you there! You can also find me and some other members of GlassFish team at the GlassFish booth in Milan.
Ed Ort will also be covering the Milan Tech Days so look forward to some good coverage from there.
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Saturday September 08, 2007
The Rich Web Experience 2007 Trip Report
The first ever The Rich Web Experience 2007 just got over and I enjoyed participating in the conference.
This conference is part of No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium series and truly lived up to it's name and these are some of my reasons:
- There indeed was no "fluff", just real meaty talks full of "stuff".
- This indeed was an "experience" - not just a conference. Everything
ranging from the
- Courteous Conference staff
- Geeky attendees (we love them!)
- Quality of food (one of the best conference foods, probably THE best - only comparable to Google Developer Day)
- Daily Raffles (an iPhone every lunch and dinner, an iMac on the 2nd day & for the best speaker and other giveaways)
- Great goodies for each attendee (a Wii or $250 Amazon certificate - will be shipped afterwards because of "delivery problems" :)
- Great venue (driving
distance from home)
everything was just superb!
- The conference size was small and this allowed us to have more closer 1-1 interactions with a lot of attendees. We had some real good interactions with the attendees and looking forward to helping them out.
At the venue, we asked for Internet connectivity for the desktop machines to be used for demonstration.
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For the quoted price ($850 for 2 days) I thought for a moment that we are getting a "really cheap" dedicated direct satellite connection. But then I realized it was just the usual broadband wired connection. Gosh! That was a ridiculous price so we finally used our laptop for all the demos as wireless connectivity was free, courtesy Rich Web Experience. |
It gives an impression that San Jose Fairmont is not convention-ready yet!
Both of Greg & Ludo's talks (Project jMaki - Enabling Web 2.0 Application Developers and Web Design for Server-Side Developers) were well attended.
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We gave out a new tee-shirt at the conference with the juggling Duke and attendees were flocking towards it. And if you missed it then hopefully you can get it at an upcoming conference. Any guesses on the "balls" ? |
We also conducted daily raffles for a Sun Spot Java Development Kit during the first two days of the conference. The winners on both the days were extremely thrilled and came back the very next day and shared their experience. Congratulations!
| All the information about the kit can be found at sunspotworld.com. I recommend reading the FAQ that provides information on the types of sensors and other useful information. The Users Guide and other Documentation provide other useful information to get started. If you were not lucky to win the raffle, you can always buy them here! |
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Here are some of the demos that we showed at the conference:
- What is jMaki ?
- Several jMaki
related demos, samples, screencasts & samples
- jMaki on JSP (NetBeans IDE)
- Dynamic Data Loading
- Mashups (here and here)
- Inter-widget communication (here and here)
- jMaki on PHP
- jMaki on Rails (screencast, blog) (NetBeans IDE)
- jMaki on Phobos (screencast, blog) (NetBeans IDE)
- jMaki on Eclipse
- jMaki on JSP (NetBeans IDE)
- GlassFish
And others will be available on ajax.dev.java.net soon.
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It was really nice to meet Jason Lee - one of the first GlassFish Champion 2007 & GlassFish 2 TV Contest Winner. He got lucky at the conference again and won an iPhone on the second day dinner-time raffle. Read his RWE Day 1 and Day 2 experience. Jason, go buy a lottery ticket and you may be one of the four winners next time :) |
Jay Zimmerman announced that Rich Web Experience will visit Atlanta in April 2008 and back in San Jose in September 2008. Thank you for organizing a great conference and looking forward to our future participation.
No Fluff Just Stuff is the way to go!
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Posted by Arun Gupta in web2.0 | Comments[1]
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