This JavaOne 2007 BOF was about the coming web, deemed the Semantic Web. The way I would describe a semantic enabled site is to talk about microformats. You can use microformats to annotate a given snippet of HTML to describe the data contained in the HTML. For example, a typical site uses HTML to structure [...]
The complete name for this JavaOne 2007 technical session was Write a 3D Game in the Java Programming Language in Less than 50 Minutes. This was not a hands on session but instead Erick Hellman spoke on his experience writing a 3D game in Java. In full disclosure Erik informed those present that he never [...]
In this aptly named technical session, Shannon Hickey and Hans Muller tag teamed to talked about the current state of JSR 295: Beans Binding. Right off the bat, Shannon said that the Beans Binding implementation is far from final and if any body has any thoughts on how beans binding should be done Shannon suggested [...]
Jasper Potts, Sun, gave an insightful presentation at JavaOne 2007 on Why Spaghetti is Not Tasty: Architecting Full-Scale Swing Apps. Jasper started the technical session by describing the first typical architecture for a Swing application. The typical first architecture is to pass everything to everybody. The second level of abstraction in a Swing architecture is [...]
This JavaOne 2007 session was originally titled Form Follows Function (F3), after the code name for what was marketed as JavaFX Script. JavaFX Script (JFX) has been one of the most hyped up technology announcements here at JavaOne. According to the marketing literature from Sun, JavaFX Script is a “highly productive scripting language that enables [...]
This was the third and last JavaOne 2007 session that I attended that dealt about the GlassFish Application Server. This was a technical overview of what’s new the latest release of GlassFish. The new features in v2 include clustering support, high availability (five nines or that is 99.999), memory replication, and Java business integration just [...]