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Cool ThingPosted by editor on May 12, 2008 at 7:33 AM PDT
What was your favorite thing from JavaOne 2008? By this point, more or less everyone should be home from JavaOne 2008, and with the conference buzz... or the buzz from late night gatherings at the Thirsty Bear... worn off, it's worth asking what stands out, what sticks, what is it that you're going to take away from this conference? This is the second year that the keynotes were dominated by JavaFX, last year in the form of an announcement and this year in the form of demos and roadmaps of the nearly-ready platform. InfoWorld is taking a stern look at the hill JavaFX has to climb in a new article this morning, Can Sun rejuvenate Java?
But of course, there were a number of other highlights: Neil Young finding a good use for all the storage and interactivity on Blu-Ray, the licensing of a modern video codec from On2 for JavaFX, the much-talked-about (if not widely understood) Project Hydrazine, etc. So, as the presenters and others take a rest after the JavaOne sprint, it's time for everyone else to take stock of where we stand after JavaOne 2008, and figure out where we're going. JavaOne wrap-ups fill today's Weblogs, starting with James Gosling's late-week wrap-up, Too much fun... "I don't know how some people manage to blog so much. Yesterday was another huge blur. A big chunk was rehearsing for my keynote this morning. It's kinda easy for me because it's mostly demos, and they're all wickedly cool." Calvin Austin summarizes JavaOne - Hits and misses, saying "this year's JavaOne was a not to be missed event. Here are my views on how the conference has changed." Finally, Cay Horstmann takes a big picture look in his conference wrap-up Java One Day 4. "Day 4 of Java One is over. Even without huge announcements or great surprises, it was a great conference. Here are my impressions from the cool stuff keynote and my takeaway what it all means." Also from last week at Moscone Center, the latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 45: Live from JavaOne 2008. "Daniel Steinberg takes his microphone and tours the JavaOne 2008 Pavilion giving listeners an opportunity to experience the booths in the Mobility Village at JavaOne 2008." And given all that, the latest java.net Poll asks "How do you feel about Java after JavaOne 2008?" Cast your vote on the front page, then visit the results page for current tallies and discussion. In Java Today, Sun's John Rose summarizes JavaOne 2008 developments in his wide-ranging blog The Golden Spike: "In the Java cosmos we can reckon time in terms of JavaOne conferences. For programming languages on the JVM, the just-finished epoch has seen much progress, and the next epoch looks even better. Here is some of the progress that I am excited about, after bouncing around at JavaOne." In the interview JavaOne: Taking mobile application development out of the niche, Java and mobility enthusiast and visionary C. Enrique Ortiz gives his thoughts on why mobile application development is still a niche activity for developers, and discusses the hot topics about mobility at JavaOne. NetBeans IDE 6.1 contains a completely new JavaScript editor which provides many advanced editing capabilities such as intelligent code completion, mark occurences, instant rename, on-fly analysis of JavaScript libraries, support for many Ajax frameworks and more. Watch the screencast Guided Video Tour of NetBeans IDE 6.0 and 6.1 to discover the new and exciting JavaScript-related features. This week's Spotlight is on GlassFish's Project SocialSite, which is delivering social networking functionality by adding social networking platform support based on the OpenSocial standard to any community site. Any social application written for the OpenSocial based social network can be seamlessly and easily hosted on a transformed community site that is powered by the SocialSite project. Project SocialSite adds social networking functionality to applications written in Java, PHP, or Ruby; with widgets, and REST APIs. SocialSite also seamlessly scales up to millions of users.
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