There were several Sun technologies that were displayed and taught at Sun Tech Days 2009. New additions to the sun technology arsenal like zembly, JavaFx and Java Tv were Showcased. Also a lot of new improvement on existing technologies like Netbeans , Solaris were projected.
The sun Showcase, The Keynotes by James Gosling and Matt Thompson were
in the main auditorium and attended by several people . After the keynotes each day, the sessions were distributed into tracks like enterprise Computing, Client Technology, Tools and Best Practices,
Hands-on Labs, etc.The first day comprised of 7 tracks with an overall of 36 sessions.The second day comprised of 6 tracks with an overall of 31 sessions.
The tech days mainly showed the latest breath taking technologies of sun like Mysql, Virtualbox , JavaFx, Java TV.
Keynote : James Gosling on the first day, after the showcase we had a keynote by Jamesh Gosling, the father of Java. The Keynote was very exciting as it showed in a lot of new technologies based on Java. It also gave a glimpse of the Various products of sun like Glasssfish and finally ended with a projection of Java in the near future..
Keynote – Matt Thompson :: The Second day started off with a keynote by Matt Thompson which mainly covered the advent of sun in the arena of Cloud Computing, It mainly projected trends in cloud Computing like Zembly an online platform for building social applications and project Kenai along with online virtualization.The virtual environment wasn’t only in terms of
operating systems but also in terms of hardware virtualization too.
NetBeans 6.5 – Whats new and Cool , The Netbeans session was great , It gave uks a good insight about Netbeans and introduced us to Netbeans 6.5 by a short and quick tour of its various features. One of the best concepts introduced in NetBeans 6.5 was the variable
class paths, which was explained well in the presentation. As a part of
the session, several demos were shown, which included * Compile on Save, which was shown using Hibernate + Servlets,Hibernate, which was demonstrated using Visual Java Server Faces + Hibernate + Java DB,Search Mechanisms,Database Manager,JSF connected to a database for CRUD with AJAX.
DTrace – Bridging the observation gap for Java and scripting Languages . The session on Dtrace was very interesting. Especially as it started from the basics. We had a good opportunity to start fresh and learn from the session.Some of the concepts covered in the session includes a. The philosophy of DTrace (Dynamic Tracing),Performance vs. Probes,DVM providers and Hotspot providers,Java Statically Defined Tracing,Scripting Language support for DTrace – Python, PHP, JavaScript and Ruby, MySQL support for DTrace
