Scott McNealy made an appearance during the last session of JavaOne. He joked about Jonathan Schwartz’s ponytail by saying that all of management is trying to grow a pony tail. Now, I have to say that was funny but there is nothing funny (at first then really annoying) than a bunch of nerds and techies [...]
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In this session I got to see a little bit more under the covers of Grails. Grails is built on Spring IoC, MVC, and WebFlow. It also makes use of Hibernate and SiteMesh. I am currently working on a Rails project and have some background with that framework and with experience fresh in my mind [...]
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I went to this BOF just to kill some time before the Grails BOF. It is interesting, just before attending this BOF I had read the blog entry by Yakov Fain about his impressions regarding the AJAX Smackdown session (my impressions are here). Yakov is a Java Champion from the New York/New Jersey area. Durng [...]
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My last session of the day was a panel discussion covering Dojo, Flex, DWR, JSF, and Swing/Java WebStart. The moderator asked a really good question. Does all the excitement over AJAX promote JavaScript as a first class language? Now, AJAX is a client pull mechanism and the moderator queried the panelist into a server push [...]
This session was like Queer Eye for the UI Guy. The presenters, Scott Violet, Shannon Hickey, and Romain Guy (all from Sun Microsystems) spiced up a mail client not much unlike Thunderbird. It truly was as if Thunderbird got a makeover. The presenters did some very AJAXy type of UI enhancements, such as fade ins [...]
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This was another session by Karsten Lentzsch, founder of JGoodies. JGoodies has a data binding project and right at the start of the session Karsten cautioned those in attendance on its use. He did this not because the project is in a horrible state but because the domain has been difficult to address. There were [...]
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