Five days to the number one Java conference in the world, including the Moscone effervescent Pavilion, smart people, marketing, music, sandwiches, and a full week of opportunities to make business and to have fun. As usual, I am going to San Francisco looking for the best offerings of JavaONE regarding Java knowledge, and of course I have my own pack of spices to expose over there. During the last few days, an impressive number of e-mails had arrived in my mail box about what we can see or try at JavaONE so it is time to start living the Jay-One Atmosphere. I would like to start my JavaONE 2009 warm-up sharing with you a question about how to create web-service clients. How to Create fancy GUIs for RESTful web-services?

My latest experiments include an extension of the Footprint Project to provide a RESTful service for the management of the certificates and some features to manage conferences. Quite similar to JUGEvents or Event Brite, but using Glassfish technologies. During JavaONE I will be looking for a good client technology to connect to the brand new Footprint Service. It is a fast and reliable Jersey Web-Service running on top of Glassfish v2.1. The minimum set of features expected for its first release are:

• Event CRUD including a scheduler feature (sample URLs: read, edit, count)
• Attendees CRUD (sample URLs: read, edit, count)
• Distribution of certificates (online links to Footprint Certificates published by conferences or courses)

So, if you are motivated about any Java front-end technologies ({JavaFX, {web : {JSF, GWT, Wicket, Rails-*, JRuby, Prism, Sinatra}, rcp-*, desktop, mobile}.), please come to me and let's talk about a collaboration (if you also liked the project idea, of course :). Specially if you like to do mashups and to connect them in to smart services, then I will pay you a beer or two in San Francisco :)