I held a JavaOne Brown Bag session yesterday for my co-workers that were not able to attend this years JavaOne. In three days I attended 18 sessions. During my brown bag session I covered what in my mind where the highlight session of JavaOne, such as Effective Java Reloaded, Groovy = Java Tech [...]
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There was a lot of buzz at JavaOne regarding the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Basically, GWT allows a developer to write a AJAX powered web application in Java!! The Java code gets ‘compiled’ to a set of plain old text files containing your JavaScript code. For example, the GWT will translate your [...]
I attended the How to Write APIs That Will Stand the Test of Time session on the last day of JavaOne 2006. The speakers were from the NetBeans team and they stated that everyone is in the API business. Today a typical application is not build but assembled with a hodgepodge of open [...]
I attended the How to Represent the Architecture of Your Enterprise Application Using UML 2.0 and More session on the last day of JavaOne 2006. According to the speaker UML 2.0 provides “a lot of flexibility which is an euphemism for ambiguity.” A diagram is not enough. The speaker recommended that every [...]
The session Test Driving the Rich Client Platform by Mikael Boman was really informative. I been looking into the Eclipse RCP and have also been reading a lot about the NetBeans Platform. In this session, Mikael discussed the NetBeans Platform, the Eclipse RCP, the Spring RCP, and the alternatives for building a rich [...]
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The Java community is really excited about JSR 223 which will bring scripting to the Java platform. My first session day went over the new Scripting API in Java SE 6, the next major release of Java. By the time I entered this session I had already attended several session that focused on [...]