JavaOne 2008 slides available online

JavaOne 2008 slides

There are more goodies available:

• JavaOne Hands-On Labs materials
• Sun Tech Days Hands-On Labs materials
  

Check the last year page for even more interesting things to download!

JavaOne 2007 slides available online

JavaOne 2007 slides

Java One 2007 Friday - The Toy Show Webcast

The Toy Show Webcast is available.

Java One 2007 Friday - The Toy Show

The last general session of the conference is The Toy Show. I urge you to view the webcast - it's an awesome demonstration of what's possible with Real-Time Java!

Unfortunately the webcast is not available at the moment. :(

Java One 2007 Friday - Conference wrapup

The conference concludes today. It's time to go sightseeing and shopping. :) The last session ends at 5:10 PM though...

Java One 2007 - Java technology libre panel

The representatives of four projects who explore the space of Java VM and class library implementation talked about the changes which are inevitable after the Sun has "freed" the Java.

Panelists:

• Geir Magnusson, Jr. (Chairman of the Apache Harmony PMC)
• Mark Reinhold (Chief Engineer, Java SE, Sun Microsystems)
• Dalibor Topic (Kaffe Virtual Machine community leader)
• Tom Tromey (Lead developer GCJ, Red Hat)
• Mark Wielaard (Maintainer of GNU/Classpath, FSF)
  

It has been noted that in spite of the same license as the Linux use the possibility of Java fragmenting is low since there is an API specification which drives the efforts. The desire for compatibility (even on a bug compatibility level) is high. The panelists expressed an opinion that the diversity of compatible but different implementations is good for a Java community since it will allow to accommodate the needs of different categories of end-users and customers. Moreover, it allows different development groups optimize for a specific problem they are going to solve, be it a specific hardware to run the system or a research project.

Java One 2007 Materials

The Java One 2007 materials will be available for non-attendees in two weeks after the conference.

Java One 2007 Wednesday - the JUG leaders meeting with Sun Technology Outreach

I've attended the JUG leaders meeting with Sun Technology Outreach. It was really interesting to listen to the other JUG leaders. It looks like the main recommendation to keep the JUG live and healthy is to meet frequently. ;-)

Java One 2007 Tuesday results

The Real-Time Java (JSR-1) is here and is available for Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X.

The other main announcements of the first day are JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile - a scripting language (named F3 or Form Follows Function before) and runtime for embedded/mobile environments respectively. Tuesday general session features the mobile phone which is similar to Apple's iPhone visually. ;-)

The live webcasts of the Tuesday general session are available one the home page of the Java One 2007 conference.

Java One 2007 Pavillion features Macs

A yellow Mac


A Mac Mini cluster

Java One 2007 fun - Open for Business Presentation

Java One 2007 Second day start

I've tried to register and pick up attendee materials at the early morning (7 AM). But I've spent another 2 hours waiting for the system to recognize the payment made. I've spotted a typo in todays issue of conference newspaper JavaOne Today while waiting - a day was named as WENESDAY, not WEDNESDAY as it should be. :)

I've tried to attend the first session with no luck again - I've been told that I can't attend any session I've not registered with Schedule Builder. So, the first session I will attend starts 1:30 PM.

Meanwhile I'll go to Java Pavillion - a companion exibition.

Hooray! I will attend the JavaOne 2007 this week.

I have to skip the first day, but anyway - I'll be there. Stay tuned...

Java One 2006 - Second day results - 1 year later

I've made an assumption regarding to the Java 6 for Mac OS X release schedule during the last year JavaOne conference - how wrong I was then. Unfortunately, due to a really strange reasons, the Apple has decided to postpone the release of the Leopard:

Apple Statement

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

It is still unknown though if the Java 6 will be available for Leopard only but I have no hope to see anything of release quality sooner than October taking into account the total number of Java-related sessions announced for upcoming WWDC, namely:

1. 518 Real-world WebObjects Solutions
2. 138 Discover Java on Mac OS X Leopard
3. 535 Bring Your Java Application to Mac OS X Leopard

Java One 2006 - Third day

The third day begun with the IBM's general session where Erich Gamma and John Wiegand talked about the Eclipse development process - people and tools, project rythm and project health.

As to the sessions, the two most interesting were TS-1548 Extreme GUI Makeover Lookin' Better and TS-3399 A Simple Framework for Desktop Applications. Unfortunately, the demos for TS-1548 still are not available, and they worth the look.

Java One 2006 - Second day results

I've just returned from the Apple's BOF session at Java One. It was nice to meet the guys behind Java on Mac OS X in person.

There were two significant announcement made: the famous "SWT is not implemented on Mac OS X" bug had been closed as "fixed" and Java 6 DP2 for Mac OS X had been announced. The Java 6 is available for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs both. See the full official announcement.

PS: Alan Samuel said: "we will be agressive with Java 6 for Mac OS X release", which MAY mean that we'll see the release soon after the Sun's release of Java 6.

Java One 2006 - Second day - Excelent Desktop Java Sessions

There are two excelent Java desktop sessions I've attended today: TS-1099 Dos and Don'ts for Swing Applications and TS-1305 High-Performance GUIs.

Java One 2006 - Second day

The General session is Oracle's today. The Java Persistence API (JPA) Reference Implementation has been donated to GlassFish project as OpenSource.

Java One 2006 - First day results

There are too many sessions to address them all by only two men, so we'll see only the small fraction of Java One. Nevertheless the sessions have been filled fast. There are feedback forms available for each session.

I've attended BOF-0420, BOF-2170, and BOF-2496 yesterday. I've found the BOF-2170 the most interesting and best presented.

First day at Java One - Just Arrived

I've just registered for the Java One conference. The sessions are all full today, only several BOFs and reception are available. So, lets start from reception! :)