Posted by
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Digging into the specifics
Oftentimes, the second full day of JavaOne is what I call "Dig In Day": it usually features technical sessions that expand on the major stuff introduced in the opening day's general session. Of course, this year's surprising announcement was JavaFX, and Wednesday featured a full-blown tech session on how JavaFX, né F3, works.
Timothy M. O'Brien, a fixture at ONJava and a guest blogger for JavaOne, went to JavaFX creator's Chris Oliver's technical session, and came away thoroughly impressed:
So he starts showing us some slides, he gets to slide four - an example of a bad Java swing application - a PDF reader. He explains that Swing applications all look bad because they are Swing, etc. etc. We're all expecting the next slide to be an example of a slick looking JavaFX application, and he blew everyone's mind by saying, "Now for the Flex application... you are looking at it" So, he proceeded to show us this slick looking JavaFX application, zoom animations, a fancy animated view of pages ala itunes albums. I mean it was impressive, and I'm a skeptic.
We have a number of other blogs from the JavaFX and other technical sessions, so if you're not at the show, or went to other sessions, here's your chance to get a deep intro to what's up at the show.
Yesterday also featured a strong lineup of mini-talks at the JavaOne Community Corner. We had a hard time picking one to feed first, but Gary Thompson prevailed up on me to go with Geertjan Wielenga's Music Programming with Java (for dummies), which puts a graphic wrapper around the JFugue simplified MIDI API. Also, if you're subscribed to the feed, you may have noticed that we mistakenly re-fed the Project Darkstar interview yesterday as the MP3 file for the j1-2k7-mtT09: Teaching Java: from High School Student to Professional Developer podcast episode. The web page and its linked file are now correct, and we're working to get the right MP3 sent out on the feed. Sorry about that; we will fix it as soon as possible.
Here's the complete list of what's on today's java.net front page:
Digging into the specifics
