The weather hasn’t been that great in San Francisco. The locals whom I talked to told me that it hadn’t been good recently. Unfortunately the weather forecasts don’t look promising either. Well… It’s not like we’re going to have outdoor sessions, anyway…
The second day of JavaOne 2009 started as usual. I, just like a few thousand other fellow Java developers, took my place in the General Hall for the morning key note speech. This general session was entitled “Being Unique With Sony Ericsson” and as the title suggests, it was the Sony Ericsson session.
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To be honest, the one thing I was wondering about before the opening session was the number of people attending JavaOne this year. And even though the Opening Session looked busy, I was convinced that the numbers were down from last year, which is only natural in the economic climate that we’re in. However this didn’t prevent the opening and then the day being a very enjoyable. On the contrary, the queues were much more bearable and I could find a free seat in all of the sessions.
Just like last year, Chris Mellissinos (Chief Evangalist and Chief Gaming Officer, Sun) was hosting the Opening Session. People from 85 different countries came to attend the 14th JavaOne. Throughout this biggest Java event, they’re going to attend more than 300 sessions presented by more than 600 speakers. Additionally, it’s reported that 60% of the attendees are attending JavaOne for the first time this year.
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Time flies… I have the impression that I said the same thing last year but here I am again in San Francisco for this year’s JavaOne: JavaOne 2009.
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Aaaaand finally it’s here… As of yesterday, Java became a language supported on Google App Engine.
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3.0.0 M1 is the latest release of Spring Framework and Spring 3.0 contains some improvements over the previous 2.5 release.
First of all, as a disclaimer, I have to state that, as of this writing, there was no reference documentation for Spring 3.0. I’m sure my confusion about SPEL (Spring Expression Language) will disappear after a bit of reading. 
Otherwise, I’m going to have to dive into the code.
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Did you hear that Google is adding Java support to Google App Engine? Well… This is probably not going to happen very soon.
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JavaOne 2008 / Day 3
The upcoming version of the Java Servlet Specification was covered in a session called “Java Servlet 3.0 API, What’s New and Exciting” presented by Rajiv Mordani from Sun.
Java Servlet 3.0 Specification, the spec that the next generation Servlet Engines will implement, will be included in Java EE 6. Sun submitted the specification to the JCP (Java Community Process) in June 2007. Its main goals include:
- Pluggability and extensibility
- Ease of development (EoD)
- Async and Comet support
- Enhanced Security
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JavaOne 2008 / Day 3
Cameron Purdy’s talk about scalability has been the best session I’ve attended so far. Not only he’s an excellent speaker, he’s also an expert in his field. Cameron Purdy is the founder of Tangosol, which was acquired by Oracle after their successful run. Tangosol is a provider of data grid software.
In his talk entitled “Top 10 Patterns for Scaling Out Java Technology-Based Applications“, Purdy presented his top 10 principles to follow in order to have Java applications that can scale. Actually, these principles were generic technical patterns that can very well be applied to .NET as well as Java.
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JavaOne 2008 / Day 2 (Part 2)
At the end of the 2nd day of JavaOne 2008, I attended 3 BOF sessions in a row about Comet:
- Comet: The Rise of Highly Interactive Web Sites (by Alex Russell and Joe Walker)
- Writing Real-Time Web Applications, Using Google Web Toolkit and Comet (by Jean-François Arcand and Alexandre Gomes)
- Using Comet to Create a Two-Player Web Game (by Jean-François Arcand and Jim Driscoll)
They were all very good presentations. I was supposed to attend a session about SOA for the last time slot but after the second one I decided to follow the topic and I’m glad I did it.
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JavaOne 2008 / Day 2 (Part 1)
No trace of my jet lag… It was difficult enough to wake up this morning. The second day of JavaOne 2008 started with the same routine: Getting ready, checking business e-mails, buying a cup of coffee and a blueberry scone from the Starbucks around the corner and the short walk to The Moscone Center. Just a note about getting a cup of coffee: I feel so… ordinary when I hear someone ordering something like a “venti half-skinny half-1 percent extra hot split quad shot (two shots decaf, two shots regular) latte with whip and chocolate sprinkles”. This sounds so sophisticated compared to my humble Grande Americano (sometimes with an extra shot to be adventurous).
For the second day of JavaOne my schedule contained technical sessions and BoFs about mostly SOA, SCA, REST and Comet.
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