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More fun sessions at and around JavaOne

In addition to the Java EE 6 talks, there are a few more events on my calendar for the week of JavaOne.

On Sunday, when I'm not caught up in rehearsals and last-minute slide editing, I'll check out the GlassFish Unconference and party. Since the agenda is entirely up to participants, bring your best topics and suggestions!

On Monday, I'll be at CommunityOne. As Tim Bray pointed out, it's free and packed with great talks, so you'd be crazy to spend the day elsewhere.

On Tuesday at 3:20pm I'm doing a session on "JavaScript: The Language Everybody Loves to Hate" (TS-4986).

In this talk I'll try to convince a predictably skeptical audience that JavaScript is a real programming language. I'll focus on functional and object-oriented programming, explaining all the arcana. The samples I'll show are mostly taken from popular frameworks, like jQuery, Prototype and jMaki. I'll also touch on some smaller topics, like modules and fluid interfaces. The focus is not on Ajax programming, so I will not cover browser differences or DOM at all, just core language concepts and how they scale. By the way, as I prepared the slides I thought of expanding this material into a series of blog entries. If you are interested, please leave a comment.

On Wednesday at 9:30am I'll be at "The Script Bowl: A Rapid-Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages" (PAN-5435).

Somehow I got persuaded to act as a judge in this American Idol-like elimination show. I'll try to keep my snide remarks to a minimum and I promise not to try and affect a British accent. Charles Nutter broke the embargo on the super-secret list of tasks that our panelists have been asked to perform. But he may have got the list of participants wrong: we will have JRuby, Jython, Groovy and Scala representatives on stage, ready to dazzle the audience with their best work.

In the rocket science department, on Wednesday at 2:40pm I'm registered to attend a session on "Transactional Memory in Java Based Systems" (TS-6316). A bit dry maybe, but ten five years from now this stuff is going to be everywhere, so you may just as well learn about it today.

On Friday, at 12:10pm I'll attend Kohsuke Kawaguchi's Hudson talk (TS-6547) to pay homage to this irreplaceable tool and its equally irreplaceable author. I think that without Hudson all software development around here would stop; furthermore, at the rate it's spreading Hudson will soon run the entire software industry. Not too shabby for a butler!

Finally, after much session and party attendance, I plan to end the week on Saturday at the Scala Lift-off unconference (no ties to JavaOne). Right now I'm more interested in Scala than the lift web framework, but in any case it's going to be a great opportunity to meet other Scala-heads.

Overall it looks like a great (and exhausting) week in the making!

Java EE 6 at JavaOne

JavaOne 2008 is around the corner, so I thought I'd compile a list of sessions touching on Java EE 6 technologies.

Let's start with the platform itself.

As part of the Sun Technical General Session (Tuesday, 1:30pm) I'll be giving an overview on EE 6 and show some cool GlassFish V3 demos. Then you are all invited to the Java EE 6 Platform Community BOF (BOF-4984, Wednesday, 7:30pm) to talk about profiles and other features in the platform. Several expert group members will be there (12, at last count) and we are looking forward to a very interactive conversation with the audience.

Moving on to the main EE 6 components, here is a list of talks by the various spec leads:

• TS-5343 EJB 3.1 (Tuesday, 12:10pm)
• TS-5509 JPA 2.0 (Wednesday, 1:30pm)
• TS-5415 Servlet 3.0 (Thursday, 10:50am)
• TS-5425 JAX-RS 1.0 (Tuesday, 12:10pm and Friday, 2:50pm)
• TS-5979 JSF 2.0 (Thursday, 2:50pm)
• TS-5286 WebBeans 1.0 (Wednesday 10:50am)

(I just noticed the overlap between the EJB and JAX-RS talks. I wonder if it's too late to move one of them, or schedule a repeat session. I'll check with the conference organizers.) Update: The JAX-RS talk will be repeated on Friday at 2:50pm.

I would also recommend the session on JSR-303 (Bean Validation, TS-5616), which we are tracking closely for inclusion in the platform.

Finally, here are the community discussion BOFs:

• BOF-5624 Connector Architecture 1.6
• BOF-5039 JDBC 4.1
• BOF-5753 EJB 3.1

If you like the demos I'll show during the keynote, you owe it to yourself to attend the GlassFish V3 session (TS-5921, Tuesday 4:40pm).

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