Joshua Marinacci's Blog

NetBeans day success

Hey guys. Real quick. I just thought you'd like that we (the NetBeans GUI Builder team) showed Open Street Maps on stage at CommunityOne in front of about >400 people. We did a demo where we built a database application live on stage that combines famous sites in London with photos from WikiPedia and the JXMapKit running Open Street Maps. And we did the whole thing with only a single line of actual code. Everything else was visually assembled in less that 5 minutes. I told the audience that we were using OSM which is "literally created by guys on bikes with GPS trackers. It's amazing". Everyone was very impressed. We'll have screencasts up once we finish JavaOne.

More updates will come as the week continues. We've got our JSR 296 talk and then the launch of some cool stuff for AB5k.

Comments

• Cool deal on Open Street Maps. Thanks for the pointer. Concerning visual assembly, that should still be considered code. So thanks for the "less than 5 minutes" metric. And the screencast should be interesting, too.

  Posted by: tompalmer on May 08, 2007 at 08:39 AM

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