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Numbered DaysPosted by editor on January 15, 2008 at 7:17 AM PST
ME Developer Days are approaching The early crush of 2008 conferences is now well underway, both big and small. Last week in the Java world, it was CodeMash and Sun Tech Days Atlanta (BTW, I forgot to give a shout-out to the former Pathfire colleagues I met at STD-ATL, so hi to to Kelly, John, and new-hire Marty. Unless you were supposed to be at work, in which case, I didn't see you and hope you'll drop me a line sometime). Robert Cooper, ONJava blogger and former Soul Calibur opponent, was also there and has blogged about the good and bad of the enterprise track. Next week, it's all about the Mobile & Embedded Developer Days, being held on Sun's Santa Clara campus. Registration is open through Friday, and on-site registration will not be available, so if you're still thinking of attending, you need to sign up this week. Community Leaders and conference organizers Roger Brinkley and Terrence Barr have posted several blogs recently to get attendees ready for the event, with Roger lining up buffet-style Mexican dinner for Wednesday night. So, today's Weblogs with a few more items of interest regarding the ME Developer Days. Terrence Barr begins by announcing a Sun SPOT Giveaway at Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days. "OK, so this is really cool: We managed to get hold of a couple of Sun SPOT kits and we'll be giving them away at the community social event at the Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days next week! We're thinking about creative and fun ways to do this..." Meanhwile, Roger Brinkley offers another opportunity to get your presentation out, in MEDD - Poster Sessions. "If you're interested in doing a presentation at Mobile & Embedded Developer Days it still isn't too late. Poster sessions are still available." Meanwhile, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein makes the case that New Java 7 language features should be backwards compatible. "The discussion about new language features in Java SE 7 is on again, with abundant feedback to JavaPolis presentations on closures and several "little" language features (like improved generic type inference, catch clauses, String switch, typedef and others). I am a supporter of the current closures proposal, but no matter which of these features you like, there's one aspect I see no one discussing: compatibility with older JVMs..." Returning to the topic of ME, the latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 33: Simon Phipps on Open Source, in which "Sun Microsystems' Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps discusses some of the key points from his keynote address at FOSS-IN late last year in India, and we look ahead to the upcoming Mobile and Embedded Developer Days." In the latest Feature Article, Masoud Kalali introduces an approach for Dynamic Load Balancing in GlassFish Application Server. GlassFish provides fine tools for load balancing across a cluster, but what if you want to make your clustering decisions dynamically? In this article, Masoud shows how JMX and AMX can be used to make runtime clustering decisions.
In today's Forums,
Finally, Ryan de Laplante wonders about EJB's future in GlassFish v3 - separate ejb container jar file? "Since GlassFish v3 will be so modular, I'm wondering if we'll one day see an EJB container that is basically a jar file like Spring that we can use outside of an app server, in unit tests, etc. Will we see a bunch of test suites that come with it so that developers can unit test EJBs, MDBs, JPA, etc. like with Spring? Has anyone used ejb3unit? Is it any good?" In Java Today, Neal Gafter takes on the hot-button issue in the Java community by tackling the question Is the Java Language Dying? "Personally, I believe rumors of Java's demise are greatly exaggerated. We should think of Java as a living language, and strive to eliminate much of the accidental complexity of Java programs. I believe it is worth adding support for closures and control abstraction, to reduce such complexity of both the sequential and concurrent aspects of our programs." In a recent blog, long-time Swing expert Robert Ecskstein describes his enthusiasm for Swing Application Framework and Beans Binding. "Okay, I admit it. I was the co-author of Java Swing, a book which was published by O'Reilly ten years ago. I also admit that I've had several ideas throughout the years as to what would make a decent framework for Swing applications, including support for cataloging actions and resources, and cacheing of session state (window size, position, etc.). So, it was with great relief that a few years ago, I found that Hans Meuller on the Swing team was taking on this task in the new Swing Application Framework (JSR 296). I was equally glad to see that the scope of this project was something that "could be learned in a day."" Dapper, a data mapping service, has announced a contest to build a NetBeans plugin which allows for easy integration of Dapp content within an application (Java or otherwise). If you are interested to enhance the NetBeans web technology support check this out. Current and upcoming Java Events :
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