Romain Guy's Blog: JavaOne Archives

Posted by gfx on June 27, 2005 at 09:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sun Microsystems has just relased the new Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, a powerful Opteron workstation you can see in action at JavaOne in the Pavilion. We used such a station to run a demo yesterday during NetBeans Day and trust me, this workstation is really powerful. We had some trouble finding the appropriate driver in Solaris 10 for our USB mouse but once we got it up and running, wow. Java really shines on these marvels. With a price starting at $850 I don't see any good reason not to try it.

8am, some important announcements already

Posted by gfx on June 27, 2005 at 08:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

It seems, after all, that Glass Fish was much much more than it looked like. Sun indeed released Sun App Server under the CDDL. We now have a new major JEE server available under an Open Source license. We Java developers are blessed, for we got an incredible choice for every kind of tool.

Oh but wait, why did I write JEE and not J2EE? Typo? Laziness? None of this, the Java brand now drops the 2 from the name: JME, JSE and JEE. Another name change, but as Graham Hamilton explains, a lot of people found the 2 confusing. I hope my readers in France (I write for a printed magazine) won't be confused by the new name. It took years to sort out the mess of JDK/J2SE SDK (finally renamed JDK) and I'm pretty sure no one ever figured out how to call J2SE 5.0 (welcome JSE 6, note the subversion is also dropped). Ah well, we'll just use the code names, at least we can remember them :)

Stay tuned for more infos and get yourself a day off to read all the blogs from java.net bloggers.

NetBeans Day

Posted by gfx on June 26, 2005 at 11:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The NetBeans Day took place at The Argent Hotel in San Francisco, just a few blocks away from the Moscone center. To make a long story short, it was a great day and it was a huge success.

During the opening keynote, we've seen Rick Ross talk about the NetBeans community and the Project Looking Glass team demo us some cool features of their project. The most interesting part of the keynote was the release of Studio's collaboration module as a free, open source module for NetBeans. From now on, you can benefit from this fantastic tool for free in NetBeans. That's a wonderful news and a great step forward for this IDE. This module offers an IM client for developers within the development environment but also allows you to share files, projects and edit them together. You can also remotely take the control of NetBeans to, say, build the project on your colleague workstation. You can also write your own Collablets (or something like that :) to add new collaboration features.

Various speakers also showed us many impressive features in NetBeans. For instance, Roman Strobl presented the new refactoring tools and the editor hints, comparable to Eclipse's quick fixes. And as expected we've seen Project Matisse in action. To be honest, I hate GUI builders but, for the first time ever, there is one I actually want to use (and did use in fact). And it is called NetBeans.

But there's much more. We've also seen the new NetBeans profile which makes me wonder why we used JProfiler during the last couple of weeks. I also just loved the presentation of NetBeans Mobility. It looks like a great tool to write specific J2ME applications very quickly.

Finally, James Gosling closed the day by handing awards to valuable community members. I also came up on stage to demo Matisse and JDNC/SwingLabs/Swingx data-aware components by building an MP3 player in a few minutes. Richard Bair will show this demo on thursday during James keynote so don't miss it.

This really was a great day and it proved how good NetBeans has become during the past few months. It covers J2ME, J2SE and J2EE and provides very powerful and original tools. Both the collaboration module and Matisse are killer features that could make me use NetBeans on a daily basis.

For more details, I suggest you to visit Gregg Sporar weblog. You'll find screenshots of some new features of NetBeans editor and I'm sure you'll love them.

2005, the Year of the Desktop?

Posted by gfx on June 25, 2005 at 01:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (7)

We are living interesting times. We recently saw NetBeans rise to quickly catch up with Eclipse. And as we'll all learn on Sunday, during NetBeans Day, NetBeans even outmatches Eclipse in some area. I have been using Project Matisse for a few days and for the first time ever I actually want to use a GUI builder. Exciting tool, exciting day!

The real fun will begin on Monday at the Moscone Center with the kickoff of JavaOne. There will be plenty of very interesting talks and not only about J2EE and J2ME, but for J2SE as well. Many of them will be Desktop oriented and I'm really impatient to attend some of them. Mustang features will be covered and if you don't already know them, you'll be delighted, trust me. JDNC/Swingx/SwingLabs, JDIC and Project Looking Glass members will also be here to show you how cool desktop applications can be. They will vene show you how to easily develop them. Java on the Desktop is happening right now my friends!

We will also see two talks regarding Swing oriented books: Desktop Java Live by Scott Delap (famous for ClientJava.com) and Swing Hacks by Joshua Marinnacci and Chris Adamson. I read both of them and they really worth it. If you happen to be at JavaOne and have some insightful thoughts about Swing and Desktop applications, go attend these talks and go say hi to their authors.

You'll find me at Sun's booths showing demos, answering questions and talking about Java, Swing and UI design. Whenever you have some time, come by to say hi, I'll be glad to meet you. Also, you might want to attend Scott Violet's and Shannon Hickey's Extreme GUI Makeover in which I will talk about UI.

For those of you who cannot go to JavaOne, I say this: rejoice! Java.net bloggers will work hard to cover the sessions and keep you informed about everything happening there. Attending JavaOne without even leaving your couch makes you the lucky ones in fact :)

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