Sun-internal jMaki Day Review

Last Friday jMaki team, at Sun Microsystems, arranged a jMaki Day for Sun-internal audience. The day was planned to introduce the technology and explains it's nuts and bolts with hands-on experience. Even though nobody outside Sun could attend it, but all the presos and lab material is available here. 

The morning sessions gave an overview of jMaki and included: 

• Sun, Web 2.0 and jMaki by Arun Gupta (me)
• Introduction to jMaki by Carla Mott
• Phobos and jMaki by Roberto Chinnici
• jMaki Tooling: State of Union 2007 by Ludovic Champenois
• jMaki State of Union 2007 by Greg Murray

The afternoon was BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) hands-on-labs and discussion with the team. It included:

• jMaki Applications - Doris Chen
• jMaki Recipe for building Web 2.0 Apps - Carla Mott
• Mashing it up with jMaki - Greg Murray

The slides for the morning session and hands-on-labs are available. Here are some pictures:

You can get a flavor of these sessions and labs at Sun Tech Days. 

You can also view a collection of samples (run or download them) put together by Sun's Web 2.0 team. You can also look for a collection of jMaki samples here. All of these samples can be run on GlassFish.

Here are some important jMaki links:

• Value proposition
• Overall framework architecture and features
• Basic Application Structure
• Creating jMaki widgets

Please send any feedback on slides and hands-on-labs to dev@ajax.dev.java.net.

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