Posted by Wilfred Springer mid-morning: June 22nd, 2009
Two weeks ago, I presented Spring ME at JavaOne. It was an interesting conference in more than one way. Some things were just plain surreal. Larry Ellisson calling onto the OpenOffice community to work on integration of JavaFX? What was that all about? And I haven’t seen the official numbers yet, but the number of attendees must have been an all-time low. Same with the number of parties. 
Nevertheless, I have to say I had a marvelous week. Despite the economic slow-down, the quality of the talks was great, and it surely doesn’t seem to have prevented people from exploring new ideas. From my perspective, the big topics were Java FX (largely Sun pushing), Cloud Computing (lot of vendor push, quite some traction behind it, very little convergence) and other languages on the VM (mostly based on traction from the community).
In summary, I would say that there is pretty widespread agreement that multi-core and cloud computing have exposed some of the weaknesses of the traditional VM, language and enterprise architectures. However, Java is certainly not dead, and it is not going to anywhere soon; instead, it’s very much alive and kicking. However, there are quite a few different perspectives on how Java should evolve from all of this. And since a significant bit of the platform is driven by the community, the shake-out of these different opinions will take some time. Nevertheless, all of these initiatives are surely promising, and there seems to be a strong commons sense of avoiding ceremony. I’m sure something good will come out.
The rest of this entry are just some of the highlights I picked from my notebook.
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Posted by Anurag Shrivastava terribly early in the morning: April 7th, 2009
San Francisco 31 March – 3 April: Web 2.0 Expo brought together people with diverse professional backgrounds, having interest in Web 2.0, at Mascone Centre in San Francisco. San Francisco Bay Area, also known as Silicon Valley boasts of high concentration of information technology companies of all sizes ranging from biggies like Intel Corporation to numerous start ups trying to make it big.
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Posted by Mischa Dasberg in the early evening: May 10th, 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
Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early morning: May 9th, 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
Posted by Jeroen van Erp mid-morning: May 8th, 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
Posted by Erik Jan de Wit in the early morning: May 7th, 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
Posted by Jeroen van Erp at around evening time: March 13th, 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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