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RockstarPosted by editor on January 8, 2009 at 4:02 AM PST
The scene from the first day of CodeMash Day one of CodeMash is done... I'm talked out from giving eight hours of tutorial and duly chlorinated after a trip to the indoor waterpark. But even the waterpark wasn't as loud as the vendor area and hang space at the conference, where a couple vendors had set up Rock Band 2 games just a few feet apart, making it hard to get away from geeks mangling the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters. Looking at today's schedule, Java's prominent by its absence, until you realize it's the stealth platform at this conference. Many of the talks that are Java based don't have Java in their name... because they're about Groovy, Spring, Jython, Grails, Scala, and more. All of these are Java- or JVM-based, but the casual owner wouldn't even know it. And isn't that what we want? Solid solutions based on Java, rather than just concatenating "J" this, "ava" that, and a bunch of coffee puns onto marginally-related products and projects? Or does Java not get the credit it deserves when its best stuff doesn't tout its Java heritage? Looking ahead to the next conference on the Java agenda, the Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days begin in just two weeks. The fifth M3DD countdown newsletter has profiles of speakers Jan Sterba, who'll be talking about JavaFX mobile, and Bill Foote, who will present on creating Blu-Ray games and menus with open-source tools. Also, Terrance Barr has announced that the event will again be streamed live, for free, via ustream.tv. Also in Java Today, Danny Coward tries to assess all the moving pieces of the Java world in his look at The year ahead for Java and JavaFX. "2009 promises to be an exciting year for Java: The Planetarium expects Java SE 7 to be mostly completed, with modularization, multiple languages being a big deal, JavaFX will ship the mobile profile, and preview (and possibly complete) version 2 including the TV edition, Java ME should finish or get close to finishing its next mobile edition, and we should continue to see lots of mobile frameworks and app stores." Eduardo Pelegri-Llopoart has posted a summary update of the JCP status of all the various parts of Java EE 6. "Below is a full list based on a pass through JCP (will adjust if I missed any); all of them are either in PRD or past it; the only exception is Java EE 6 itself (JSR 316) which, by definition, lags them all. [...] Some of these specs have already been voted on: EJB 3.1 (results) and JPA 2.0 (results); for some others the vote starts on Jan 6th: JCA 1.6, Servlet 3.0, JSF 2.0, and a last batch starts on Feb 3rd: Bean Validation, WebBeans." In today's Weblogs, Chris Campbell embeds a demo applet into his latest blog, Effects in JavaFX: Quality. "The second installment in a new series on the filter effects package in JavaFX, focusing on how we maintain great visual quality in the rendering process..." Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein takes a swing at Clearing the Java FX FUD. "I've been busy over the last weeks, evaluating and learning the Java FX platform. I'm between optimistic and enthusiastic about JFX, but wandering forums and blogs over the net, this doesn't seem to be the general impression - to date, most community feedback (ignoring official advocates like Sun engineers) seems to be negative." Finally, format war victory notwithstanding, John O'Conner thinks Blu-Ray may be the shortest lived, most irrelevant format ever. "Maybe Blu-Ray technology is utterly irrelevant, and maybe Java's role there is therefore irrelevant too." In today's Forums, Phillip Ross wants GlassFish to take on more responsibility, in Re: Load balancer. "And while I'm on the topic of load balancers... are there are talks, discussions, plans, ideas about a lightweight software based load balancer for glassfish that exists in a more standalone fashion? One that does not require an IIS, Apache, or SJS web server installation? One that is very small and easy to install and configure... maybe even builing on top of an embedded gfv3 architecture?"
jsantos0000000 vents a little discouragement in Re: What is the status of the Java3d project. "So no new functionality will be added to Java3d version 1.6? Just performance issues? I think Java3D has already become a bit outdated, and if version 1.6 will be the last one, as it seems… maybe it's time to move to another approach (it hasn't been a cool idea to spend several months learning Java3d)." Finally, Bill Foote suggests testing your Blu-Ray Java code on a device if you can, as implied by the reply Re: [BD-J-DEV] No animation with text?. "One possibility is that you might be playing this on a PC player -- I've seen inconsistencies in font rendering on at least one PC player. Are you sure the problem is related to the translation, and not just the font rendering?" Current and upcoming Java Events :
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Submitted by jamiebrowning on Thu, 2009-01-08 16:35.
Nickelback!?!? - You must be joking!
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