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So who's speaking at JavaOne?

The moaning and cheering in my e-mail, IM, and IRC back-channels this week is the annual indication that the JavaOne acceptances and rejections have gone out.

So, how does the program committee decide who makes the cut? After putting up the front page, but before writing the blog, I Googled for "javaone 2008 rejected" and the first hit is from NetBeans developer and JavaPosse member Tor Norbye, called Why Your JavaOne Submission Was Rejected:

I was on the review committee for one of the tracks, so I got to see the proposals as well as the reasons for rejecting many of them. I thought I'd write these up, both to explain to the many submitters what might have gone wrong, as well as to give some tips for how to improve your chances next year. I'll probably link back to this post around the time submissions for JavaOne 2009 open up later this year.

Among the flaws Tor cites in rejected proposals: not enough details, not general interest, submitted to the wrong track, crowded topic, and the fact that they only had 20 spots to hand out.

But what if you got accepted? Robert Buffone has posted a narrative of his experiences proposing, preparing, and delivering a session at JavaOne 2004 in the JavaLobby article So you want to be a JavaOne Speaker.

JavaOne just sent out their acceptance and rejects on Friday. Thankfully I got a congratulations one. I originally wrote this article about my first experience speaking at JavaOne a few years ago and it has some useful information but it also is just a interesting perspective on the whole process.

All of this conference talk reminds me that the CFP for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention just closed a few days ago, meaning I've got something like 80 sessions to review this week... maybe over a hundred once I look at the web apps, desktop, and security tracks. That's gonna take a while...

Also in Java Today, the OpenJDK Project has a new group, and two new projects. The conformance group was proposed to discuss conformance testing and compatibility issues, and approved by the OpenJDK Build Group. The Haiku Port project exists to "bring first-class support for Java technologies to the Haiku operating system", Haiku being a re-creation and continuation of BeOS. Finally, the JDK 6 project exists to "produce an open source and compatible implementation of the Java SE 6 specification."

ACM Queue authors Mark Callow, Paul Beardow, and David Brittain lay out the challenges and rewards of mobile game development in Big Games, Small Screens. They stress the importance of early design and deployment decisions, and advocate a Java-based approach: "dealing with multiple platforms and the need to manage a reasonably sized development team leads to placing great emphasis on up-front planning and design of a game. Right from the start, the developer needs to consider what the target platforms are, will be, and could be. If a reasonable return on development investment is required by earning revenue from as many users as possible, then the developer will most likely look at Java games running on today's mass-market handsets, as this gives them access to about 60 percent of the market. "

Joshua Marinacci started the Swing Hacks book as a series of java.net blogs, and he may just do the same for JavaFX. Ub today's Weblogs, he kicks off a new series in JavaFX Doodles: Doodle #1. "I'm starting a new series for JavaFX that I'm going to call JavaFX Doodles. Each doodle will be a small example of code snippet that does something compact but useful."

Felipe Gaucho wonders Is software beyond hardware? "A fun discussion today about the elderly hardware we continue to use in our day by day, like keyboards and mouses. Don't you think these devices are evolving slower than our software expectations?"

Following up on his recent back-and-forth with Neal Gafter on the issue of closure "puzzlers", Kirill Grouchnikov returns with a blog on Evolving the language. "Trying to bring together a disordered array of thoughts on the subject of evolving Java as a language."

Announcements of various types stand out in today's Forums. Kleopatra puts out a serious deprecation warning for SwingX users in In All SwingX: Removal of deprecated code looming!: "SwingX is happy enough to allow for the actual removal of deprecated stuff - and we'll do it (we promised since ages). It will happen any time between the end of the Berlinale and the release of mileston 0.9.2. Or with other words: NONE of the deprecated code, methods, classes will be part of the next milestone."

 Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart makes a Last Call for CommunityOne Submissions & Reminder for GlassFish Awards Program. "Two related announcements: Last two days for CommunityOne submissions. CommunityOne is the day before JavaOne, at the Moscone. This year we expect a substantial increase in attendance from last year and you can be a part of it! [Also,] the GlassFish Awards Program is now ongoing. Details of this $175K program are available..."

Finally, Paul Sterk posts on the status of recent builds that were affected by the problems on download.java.net, in Update: GlassFish v2ur1-b9d and Sailfin v1-b19 Restored. "The GlassFish v2ur1-b09d and Sailfin v1-b19 jar files have been restored. Please let us know if there are any problems. Also, we are currently running GF v2.1/SF v1 nightly builds to be sure that we've got everything. More updates to follow in the am, PT. Thanks to Terena for restoring the files."

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