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 Editor's Daily BlogHoliday RoadPosted by invalidname on August 15, 2007 at 07:44 AM | Comments (0)Spending the end of summer planning JavaOne 2008? So yesterday, I'm dialed into the community leaders meeting and there's not much going on -- as evidenced by the fact that some of the community pages have gone a while without an update -- and as people are saying "hey, it's summer vacation" (in the Northern Hemisphere, anyways), kids are just going back to school in some parts (including mine, despite temperatures of 101F/38C), etc., I joke "hey, it's the usual post-JavaOne two-month lull." To which someone replies: funny you should mention that, since we have our first JavaOne 2008 meeting later today. If I were an RPG character, this would be the moment when I'd get a white word baloon over my head with a big ! symbol in it. To be fair, he said that the first order of business was a recap/post-mortem/evaluation of J1 2007. But still, JavaOne 2008 is nine months away and some of us are already spending the summer planning for it? I asked if there were people at Sun for whom JavaOne prep is a full-time, year-round job, and it turns out there are (hmm... potential interview subjects?). It's a big show, but do you suppose sometimes it becomes an end in itself, rather than a means to an end? That's something that's been scratching the back of my brain as I wonder if some of the initiatives from the show need to recapture their momentum. Has a pathology of "announce and walk away" developed in some parts? One project I work with, and that had its own BoF, has only had a handful of mailing list messages since J1, and some of those were already asking "is this project dead?" Yikes! Put the waterskis back in the shed and come back to the keyboard a while, won't ya? In Java Today, Arun Gupta has set up a wiki page collecting all the known screencasts about GlassFish. In Your Balcony in GlassFish Screencast Theater, he writes: "These screencasts range from Getting Started to Web services development, jMaki-enabled Mashups, JRuby, and Clustering feature." Readers are invited to edit the page and add their own GlassFish-related screencasts. The JavaDesktop Community page is linking to a poll launched by Dieter Krachtus' blog AOT-CL and Democracy in Java - let's vote! The poll asks readers to "Tell us your 5 'Greatest Hits' for the future Consumer JRE", and includes choices relating to the JRE download and startup times, performance, modularity, self-updating behavior, and other proposed features. A good road-map to the current efforts may be found in Chet Haase's blog Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java. The public review ballot begins next week for for JSR-286, Portlet Specification 2.0. The new version aligns with the standards introduced by J2EE 1.4, along with introducing access to CC/PP data (via JSR-188), portlet filters, inter-portlet communication and render parameters as defined by WSRP 2.0, enhancements to caching support and the portlet tag library, and more. Balloting begins Tuesday, August 21 and ends on August 27. Our latest JavaOne Community Corner Podcast is j1-2k7-mtW10: Armenian E-Science Library Project by Barry Levine. "The E-Science Library Project is interersted in aggregating digital library services, as well as other digitized services, to make them available via a web-based server at American University of Armenia (AUA). We are seeking discounted digital library services from major scientific organizations (e.g., ACM, IEEE)." Taking up a little-discussed topic, Igor Medeiros covers Java Card in today's Weblogs. In While APDU is an entrance to Java Card, he writes: "If you are new to the Java Card (JC) universe, welcome! I hope that you still have no hard feelings about smart cards at all. Probably the a stranger hexadecimal string of bytes like "A4 04 01 00 06 A0 00 00 00 00 00" doesn't make sense to you if you don't know the APDU protocol. In this article, I will give you a short introduction to APDU protocol." In Dear Santa - Exceptional Stuff, Bruce Chapman has "the start of a series requesting some goodies for later next year. This first looks at stack trace improvements." Finally, Nigel Daley explains My Extreme Feedback Device. "It's a simple thing -- but it does wonders to inform management and motivate developers!"
JXTA user Brian Burkhalter explains a bit of JAI design history in Re: [JAI] UntiledOpImage (was Re: [JAI] OpImage::getFormatTags()), replying to a message about UntiledOpImage's constructors. "I suspect that you are using UntiledOpImage as much because of the fact that the algorithm is iterative on the output image as because every pixel of the output depends on every pixel of the input. We had planned at one point to implement a base class for iterative operations such as this but this was never completed. The idea was to make the destination pixel values accessible without requiring that the source be cobbled into a single tile. I guess after all this is what you are getting at here ..." Current and upcoming Java Events :
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