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 
Friday Feb 20, 2009
The NetBeans platform development session went well.... I could cover most of the topics and could demonstrate a simple application to the audience. But due to the last minute issues related to projector compatibility with my laptop (Sony Vaio) I had to use a borrowed laptop and quickly setup my main demo program there. The main demo is being developed here : https://playfull.dev.java.net
On the second day I manned the 'Connected Developer' booth with Ashwin and John (http://kenai.com). Most of the visitors were students. Apart from the typical questions that I get all the time when I meet students (number one is 'How Sun Makes money out of opensource software' ), there were many technical questions on NetBeans and project kenai. Few students were interested in VirtualBox, and I showed them a live demo of Virtual Box running on my laptop. On NetBeans, many students were asking about Server integration for web projects, frameworks such as Hibernate and struts, profiling a web application and questions like 'does NetBeans have a cool HTML editor just like the dreamweaver ? why NetBeans does not support SWT, whats the advantage of NetBeans over eclipse, how can I migrate NetBeans 3.x application into the latest one and where to look for help on this, can I do 'this' in JavaFX, how can I get started with JavaFX and few more questions that I cannot remember now...
Many students were intersted in writing plugins for NetBeans IDE, using VirtualBox, getting started with JavaFX, Project Kenai, Zimbly, OpenSolaris Project looking glass and some more ..
Overall it was a great experience to meet many students and ofcourse, my blog readers ..
snaps from the event... first my session on NetBeans platform development :
second the fun event in the evening to unwind...
Wednesday Feb 18, 2009
Sun Tech days is happening as I write this blog entry.... James keynote is on ..
Monday Dec 17, 2007
News link. Thanks to Sun for promoting the spirit, I am proud to be one of them!
Thursday Aug 23, 2007
I am happy to welcome two of my team mates : Nandagopal and Mahesh. We three are working together on a project based on Netbeans called 'openInstaller Developer Tools'.
Both are very good table tennis players and expect them to blog about their tips and tricks of their favorite game.
Happy writing guys.
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.
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Great to see you presenting at the event! Way to g...
Thanks Gowri!