JavaOne 2008 Day Four: That’s a wrap!

Posted by Mischa Dasberg in the early evening: May 10, 2008

Today was the last day of the JavaOne Conference. We came to the point when a lot of OutOfMemoryErrors where thrown. We just managed to squeeze in the last sessions.

Today's keynote was all about toys. The guys from the Netbeans team showed some new features such as a JavaScript editor (which contains code completion), Sentilla showed there small sensor thingies, which you can program to gather information, such as acceleration, temperature etc.., LiveScribe showed there very cool pen and lots more.

Today's topic included:

  • User Experience
  • SOA
  • Semantic Web

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* Filed under: Java, JavaOne, SOA, Usability
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JavaOne 2008 Day Three

Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early morning: May 9, 2008

Today was the third day of the conference. Another couple of hours to go and then it is all over again. The fatigue is kicking in, and we're starting to run on reserve power. The topics of today included:

  • Mylyn
  • Groovy
  • Semantic Web
  • SOA
  • OSGi

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JavaOne 2008 Day Two

Posted by Jeroen van Erp mid-morning: May 8, 2008

Today was the second day of the JavaOne 2008. Besides doing a lot of chatting in the JavaOne pavillion, and visiting all the cool parties this night, we also went to a number of sessions. Also today the NLJug had the James Gosling meeting we won for being the biggest JUG out here. After a long day of work, we finally had time to relax at the Adobe party and at the SDN party.

Todays topics included:

  • Closures
  • JavaFx, Groovy and Google Android
  • Swing GUI testing
  • Scripting

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* Filed under: Groovy, Java, JavaOne, Oracle, SOA, Testing
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JavaOne 2008 Day One

Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early morning: May 7, 2008

We're here at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. Today the JavaOne conference kicked off. The coming 75 hours are packed with Java, Java and more Java! To give an impression of what we're seeing here, we will provide you with a daily blog.

Today's higlights included:

  • SCA (service component architecure)
  • GlassFish
  • JavaFX
  • Effective Java and defective Java

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JavaOne 2008 Scripting preview

Posted by Jeroen van Erp at around evening time: March 13, 2008

The biggest Java event of the year is coming up again, the JavaOne. For me this is a place of inspiration. Seeing the newest technologies in action and talking to some of the great minds in the Java world, how can one not become inspired!
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* Filed under: Grails, Groovy, Java, JavaOne
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