I went Enterprise JavaBananas over this session. The original goal of EJBs was to simplify the enterprise application development process but what was delivered in the form of the EJB 2.x specification was a powerful yet complex technology. In EJB 2.x, the developer codes against a set of APIs intended for and required by the [...]
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This session was all over the map in terms of scripting in an enterprise environment. At first it started as another Groovy session, then it turned into a general JSR 223 which intends to bring scripting to the Java platform in the next major release. What I got most from this session was some additional [...]
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This session introduced Project Simplice. According to the speakers, Project Simplice intends to attract Visual Basic programmer to the Java camp. Project Simplice is inspired by Visual Basic and compile Basic code to a class file which runs in the JVM. Basically, this makes the Java platform basically simple to the Basic programmer. The whole [...]
Yesterday I posted an entry titled: Java One Tuesday: General Session. That post should have been name Java One Wednesday: General Session. Thomas Kurian from Oracle spoke on Wednesday. Tuesdays speakers was Sun’s new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. I oversleep today and missed most of the general session. I did see a partial demo of something [...]
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For me the last session of the day was, RAD for the Java Platform Web Tier: Frameworks Panel Discussion. The three frameworks covered for this session was Grails, previously known as Groovy on Rails, Trails, and RIFE. Both Grails and Trails are heavily influenced by Ruby on Rails. All of these frameworks where developed because [...]
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I attended the Groovy = Java Tech + Ruby + Python for the JVM session. This is a simple equation that makes a lot of sense to me, especially since I develop a lot of Groovy scripts at work. This session was a 101 introduction to groovy. Rob Cope of OpenLogic did a great job [...]