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Poll: Majority Believes There Will Be a JavaOne Conference in 2010Posted by editor on June 19, 2009 at 7:33 AM PDT
A majority (57%) of respondants to this past week's java.net poll expect there to be a JavaOne conference in 2010. The specific question and results were:
About two thirds believe there will either be a JavaOne conference or a similar conference with a different name, while 20% believe the days of JavaOne conferences are probably or definitely over. There was an unusually large number of votes for the catch-all category ("I don't know; other"): 12.4%, which was tied for second place among the voting options.
Of course, the not-explicitly-mentioned word in this poll was "Oracle." Two of the three posted comments were about Oracle:
What if there is a JavaOne conference but with less focus on one of the particular stacks, like a JavaSE and JavaME focused conference with significantly lesser attention to JavaEE? A lot of the people I interact with directly make the statement that the Java community is just too big for it not to find a suitable "home" with appropriate sponsorship. If you consider "JavaOne" to be Sun's trademark name for the big Java-centric conference in the Americas, it would seem readily possible that if there is such a conference in the future, it might be renamed. Acquisitions often result in rebranding of the "products" of the purchased entity. Another question, though, is: do we still need a big annual Java-centric conference? Has JavaOne outlived its usefulness? Or is it still a highly valuable confluence of people and technologies? New poll: changes in java.net content? The new java.net poll asks you what changes you'd like to see in java.net's community- and project-related content. The specific question is: Which project and community (P/C) content would you like to see more of on java.net? I'll be tailoring my future efforts on the java.net home page and in my daily blogs based on the results of this poll, so please take advantage of the opportunity to express your opinion. Voting will be open through next Thursday, June 25. In Java Today, Charles Humble wrote Project Coin Announces Second Candidate List: "Project Coin aims to make small language changes for Java 7 which simplify day to day coding for developers. In a previous InfoQ article we looked at the first "for further consideration" cut that had been made for the project comprising: strings in switch, improved exception handling, Automatic Resource Management, improved type inference for generic instance creation, Elvis and other null-safe operators, and simplified Varargs method invocation. Since then a further five proposals have been added to the list..."
Elliotte Rusty Harold writes about the Redesigned Java Community Process Website: 'There's a redesigned Java Community Process website and a townhall to announce it this morning, June 18... Less cosmetically, the Java Community Process itself has been upgraded to And Walter Bogaardt writes about Trending Analysis With Maven Dashboard: "Continuous integration is talked about as part of Agile development practices. It is lauded for its use to keep developers from "breaking the build". This tip will discuss how to implement trend reporting in daily builds using the Maven and the Maven-dashboard plug-in. Continuous integration or CI that should be looked at beyond the scope of constantly compiling checked-in code. It is one step in many, which should be part of a code review process..." In today's Weblogs, James Gosling is going to Jazoon!: "I'll be spending next week in Zurich at Jazoon'09. They've got a great lineup of technical sessions to pump your head full of all the latest everything. The lineup of speakers is pretty impressive..." Markus Karg posted Shame on us all: "The XML Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a great solution for a lot of problems. It covers not only the transformation of one XML schema into another, like it is used in enterprise application integration (EAI), it also contains a unique..." And Felipe Gaucho is a member of the Jazoon Bloggers Squad: "Jazoon conference offered me the management of the "Jazoon Bloggers SQUAD", a group of smart geeks responsible for spreading the word about the conference, before, during and after Jazoon 2009."
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And The current Spotlight is the Sun Developer Network article The Java NIO.2 File System in JDK 7 : "Janice J. Heiss and Sharon Zakhour provide an update on The Java NIO.2 File System in JDK 7 : "JSR 203, a major feature of JDK 7 under the leadership of Sun software engineer Alan Bateman as an OpenJDK project, contains three primary elements that offer new input/output (I/O) APIs for the Java platform: An extensive File I/O API system addresses feature requests that developers have sought since the inception of the JDK..." The new java.net Poll asks Which project and community (P/C) content would you like to see more of on java.net?. The poll will be open through next Thursday. Our Feature Articles include today's new article by Thomas Kuenneth, Hacking JavaFX Binding. In this article, Thomas describes how to apply binding within JavaFX in a manner similar to what can be accomplished using Beans Binding (JSR-295). We're also featuring Gary Benson's Zero and Shark: a Zero-Assembly Port of OpenJDK, which tells the interesting story of how the Java group at Red Hat developed a cross-platform OpenJDK port.
The latest Java Mobility Podcast is Java Mobility Podcast 81: JTDF, in which Eric Areseneau talks about Victor D'yakov talks about the new Java Device Testing Framework project in the Mobile & Embedded Community.
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