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Sun Tech Days, Paris
The second of the Sun Tech Days conference in Paris was more directly focused on Java. Under the Grande Arche de la Defense, Bruno Hourdel prided himself (photo) of the even better turnout for this even than the previous week's London one. Europe is an eternal competition between nations. Good for them. I think of myself as English, French and Austrian, even a little American, though my passport is British. So I don't take offense either way.
After Eric Mahe's opening welcome (photo), James Gosling came on stage to give an overview of the directions of the Java Platform. More on this in the next blog. This was followed by some really quick demos of which:
- A revisited Pet Store example(photo) with an AJAX and dynamic html make over. I am starting to get the feeling that these things are getting stable enough that it may be worth learning, without having to spend one's life on it.
- Romain Guy gave a quick overview of his extreeme Java Makeover (photo), which he showed a year ago. I wonder if it is open source yet? Romain is now an intern at Google. Hope he comes back to Sun soon.
- A presentation of the small Java DB (photo)
- And the lovely Pet Flower Store presentation by Doris Chen (photo)
I was busy taking pictures of the session so I did not quite capture every one's name. Please help me fill that out. Thanks.
I was not so good at attending the afternoon sessions. Instead I spend some time meeting people, such as the Solaris group, catching up on some questions I had. I'll be working harder on filling in my gaps at JavaOne. But now I really need to prepare my BOF. Sorry I won't be able to attend today's meetings.
Posted at 12:18PM Mar 21, 2007 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in Java | Comments[0]
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