Javaone 2009
First day of Javaone 2009: First time in Javaone is exiting, to describe javaone in one word "it rocks", apologies, its two words in fact. Keynote session had guests from Ebay, Verizon, Intel and finally surprise guest Larry Ellison. You may watch the full video here. First time I ever felt "Why didn't I bring by bulky canon S3IS".
Unfortunately my limited number of brain cells couldn't store all the data I heard on key notes and the general sessions and my lazy hands are not co-operative enough to blog all the content in my brain cells. So here are some of the highlights
- JavaFx Demo by Nandini about creating a movie trailer and adding different controls to it is cool, best thing about this is, with one mouse click, same trailer can be generated for different devices like mobiles with different resolutions and sizes.
- Javaapp store demo by James Gosling was very interesting. Its a cool idea to monetize huge java client base. Users gets benefited as they get to know all the available applications through one reliable medium, and the best part is users need not have to install it, to get a feel of an application, they can first run the application (which is made possible by java sandbox), and only if they like it they can install it. Application developers gets benefited as they can now had a wide reach for their applications and Sun gets more $s. Here is the site to get more info.
- Netbeans IDE 6.7 RC1, has some nice cool features, which is well integrated with kenai. Now you can login to kenai from netbeans, get the source code from kenai projects, modify the code check the code back in. Also it has full integration with bugzilla, which allows users to check bugs in the projects and the bugs assigned to the logged-in user all from Netbeans. Check here for more updates on Netbeans 6.7.
- JDK 7, Mark Reinhold talked about whats new in JDK7. Here are complete details about this . One interesting thing he mentioned in the session is that we no longer need to use classpath either in javac or java, and there is a file where the users need to provide the dependent modules the application depends on, and the jar files will be picked up correctly, both at compile time and run-time.
- J2EE 6 specification, here are more details about it.
- Got a chance to talk to folks in various areas interest. Another good comment I heard a free lance solution provider is that "For its age JavaFX is much better than Flash".
