One day tech. workshop @ VIT, Vellore - A report

Tuesday Mar 03, 2009

This is the report from Vellore Institute of Technology, where last Sunday (1st March, 2009) a technical workshop was conducted on Java ME, Java FX and OpenSolaris.

One thing that made everyone of us curious about the college campus was the rail track right in between the campus as shown here.

We (a group of seven Sun Engineers) reached the campus one day before the event. The day started early which protected us from the direct contact of the radiant Sun. We divided the event into three parellel tracks - Java ME, Java FX and OpenSolaris and occupied the computer labs as per the plan. Myself, Varun and Amit covered Java ME, Glashfish and MySQL. Lawrence and Blesson covered Java FX and Gowtham and Nirmal covered OpenSolaris.

There was a tremendous interest towards Java ME in the students who where mostly in third year of their engineering course. I see many students already wrote few small Java ME programs and have them on their cellphones. The questions they asked showed that they were learning and writing programs since long time and gathered sufficient knowledge and skill.

My session was on Java ME with a demo. Slides here and I happen to get the "Hello Mobile World" program written (on NetBeans 6.5 IDE) , tested (using Nokia S60 emulator) and transfered to my cellphone and ran it live! Also, I was able to hook up the client-server tutorial on NetBeans Mobility learning trail.

This report do not contain photos from the event, since I forgot to carry the camera to the event

NetBeans @ 10, 6.5 RC1 out celebrating the event

Thursday Oct 23, 2008

As you might have noticed, NetBeans is celebrating its 10th birthday. And to add to this event, NetBeans 6.5 IDE RC1 is out. (Download it from here). Its no surprise that it bears the event stamp on the splash image.

NetBeans Debugging tricks #1211

Wednesday Oct 08, 2008

During debugging, if NetBeans sees several method calls on a single line, it allows you to choose for stepping into one of them. So cool !

Update : This feature is available in NetBeans 6.5 beta onwards.

You know you've got a Java geekiness problem when...

Monday Jul 21, 2008

Look at this. Really hilarious! 

Glasspane tricks

Monday Oct 01, 2007

Geertjan wrote a nice article (as part of the Filthy Rich Clients series) about how to use the glasspane to mask the entire application window and show a progress bar. This effect can be seen in most of the flash based websites such as google analytics and flickr. This screenshot speaks for itself.

 

Nice article Geertjan.. Thanks for putting this up!
 

Sun Java Enterprise System 5 released!

Thursday Mar 01, 2007

New release! New features! Sun Java Enterprise System 5 is released to the world. Take a look at the new features here. As before, suites are available too, go here to check them out.

Sun Java Enterprise System 5 is a stack of integrated products which include most of the Sun's offering in middleware market place, such as Sun Java System Portal Server, Sun Java System Access Manager along with Identity Manager and JavaCAPs. More details here : JavaES

Thanks to Gowri to for the tip about the Java ES acronym.
 

Nice book on Java Programming for beginners and experts alike

Thursday Feb 15, 2007

There is a nice book on Java programming that teaches everything about Java in today's world. And this book is based on Java SE 6 and explains all new features of it with *real* examples. Take a look at the book on author's site

And its available on amazon already.

I was involved in the review and the draft chapters looked really great. The book is different than the similar books in the way that everything about Java is told in easy steps. And being an academic book, it covers real life examples, like Address Locator using Google Maps. The book examples are written using Netbeans and Sun Java Creator 2.0

Its nice to be kid again!

Saturday Feb 10, 2007

Hello Blog-O-Sphere! Its nice to be a new kid (again) in this new wonderful world. I am Vadiraj, from Java Enterprise Integration team. What I do in my daytime work? Well, Product Integration of most of the middle-ware product offering from Sun. We build an installer which installs the products from Java Enterprise System stack and optionally configures them together. Here are the current product offerings and here is the link to download the full stack and individual suites. Suites provide you the subset of the whole integrated stack targeted for a specific customer requirements. Here is the documentation link to start with.

Lately in my career, I have been bitten by a Love bug! Netbeans, of course! I just love to play with it. Have you anytime tried building the IDE from the sources? I am going to try that out now. Its going to be really fun to build and run a local copy of it. Here is how you can do this. Its a great IDE to use for the development, especially the new Enterprise Pack allows to build the web services easily. Right now I am into developing modules to extend Netbeans. Backed by a great community and enthusiasts, you get help and support from everywhere in developing Netbeans, be it a 'try yourself' module or a rich client application running on Netbeans platform. The netbeans.org has lot of tutorials and articles to start with the module development.

Thats it for now! Oh, by the way, so far I have seen life of about three decades.