JavaOne Notes, Plans And Session Picks
James Gosling recently wrote "JavaOne coolness is getting over the top. A fair number of hotels are already sold out. For the past several years we’ve been back on a track of annual serious escalation." So it looks like JavaOne 08 will be bigger and better than in previous years.
Unlike on previous occasions, this time round I have booked my sessions early. However JavaOne is as much about networking as it is about learning, so not sure how many sessions I will be able to attend. My plan is to attend several JavaFX and RIA sessions. Ajax and RIA technologies are still moving at a rapid pace and there’s no clear industry direction as yet. I hope the sessions will shed more light on where rich applications are headed. Groovy and Grails is another area of interest for me and I have marked a number of those sessions as well.
My tech session proposal didn’t make it but I would be speaking on the panel at the Java Champions BOF 5501, 6.30 PM, 7th of May. Am looking forward to the BOF and to various other meetings as regards IndicThreads.com, IndicThreads Research and of course the IndicThreads Conference On Java Technology 2008 to be held in late Nov / early Dec 08 in Pune, India.
There’s also a Java User Groups BOF I intend to attend. Listening to views from community members from various nations should be interesting and informative. Asia and particularly India has a humongous number of Java users but not a very active Java community, I hope the learnings from the JUG meet will help in IndicThreads better contributing to building a Java community and to Java Developer User Groups In India. The session "Writing the Next Great Java Technology Book" looks like new content for JavaOne.
The General Sessions generally have hype, demos and announcements. These can be fun if the speaker does not indulge in just praising his own company and products. The CommunityOne event seems to be growing and there’s more content and more buzz around the event this year. It’s great that Sun is creating a platform for all open and free software.
Overall it looks like JavaOne 08 will be educational and fun. The tough part is in traveling around the world to get the conference and back. I will be writing regularly from JavaOne and will keep you updated on sessions and all the other action at the show. Would be happy to meet up with IndicThreads readers at JavaOne. Drop me a note at harshad @ rightrix . com.
My Sessions Schedule for JavaOne 2008
| Time | Session ID/Title | Speaker/Company |
| Tuesday , May 06 | ||
| 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Sun General Session Java + YOU | |
| 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | TS-5152 Overview of the JavaFX™ Script Programming Language |
Christopher Oliver |
| 11:30 AM – 8:00 PM | Tuesday Pavilion Hours: 11:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. | |
| 11:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Lunch Served from 11:50 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. | |
| 11:50 AM – 12:10 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM | TS-4794 A JavaFX™ Script Programming Language Tutorial |
James Weaver |
| 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Sun General Session Java-Centricity: Leveraging Java Technology at the hub of your Digital Life | |
| 3:20 PM – 4:20 PM | TS-6169 Spring Framework 2.5: New and Notable |
Rod Johnson |
| 4:20 PM – 4:40 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 4:40 PM – 5:40 PM | TS-5030 Building Secure Mashups with OpenAjax |
Jon Ferraiolo |
| 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | TS-5764 Grails in Depth |
Guillaume Laforge; Graeme Rocher |
| 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Evening Break | &nb sp; |
| 7:30 PM – 8:20 PM | BOF-5031 Upcoming Java™ Programming Language Features |
Maurizio Cimadomore; Jonathan Gibbons |
| 8:30 PM – 9:20 PM | BOF-5504 JUG Community BOF: JUG Leaders from Around the World Interact with Sun |
Fabrizio Gianneschi; Frank Greco |
| 9:30 PM – 10:20 PM | BOF-6248 Meet the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE Platform), Web 2.0, and Enterprise Service Bus Performance Experts |
Madhu Konda; Scott Oaks |
| Wednesday, May 07 | ||
| 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM | Oracle General Session Enterprise Application Platform | |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | PAN-5435 The Script Bowl: A Rapid-Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages |
Guillaume Laforge; Charles Nutter; Jorge Ortiz; Raghavan Srinivas; Frank Wierzbicki |
| 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM | Break between sessions | |
| 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | TS-5286 Introduction to Web Beans |
Gavin King |
| 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM | Wednesday Pavilion Hours: 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | |
| 11:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Lunch Served from 11:50 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.! | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | TS-5509 Java™ Persistence API 2.0 |
Linda DeMichiel; Marina Vatkina |
| 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM | TS-6482 Ajax and JavaServer™ Faces Technology: Natural Synergy |
Kito Mann |
| 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM | TS-6509 Incorporating Media into JavaFX™ and Java™ Technology-Based Applications |
Marc Owerfeldt; Tony Wyant |
| 5:10 PM – 6:30 PM | Evening Break | |
| 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM | AMD General Session The Role of the Microprocessor in the Evolution of Java Technology | |
| 6:30 PM – 7:20 PM | BOF-5501 Java™ Champions BOF: The Latest Buzz, Highlights, and Panel Discussion |
Calvin Austin; Harshad Oak; Manfred Riem |
| 7:30 PM – 8:20 PM | BOF-4922 Writing Real-Time Web Applications, Using Google Web Toolkit and Comet |
Jean-François Arcand; Alexandre Gomes |
| 8:30 PM – 9:20 PM | BOF-5433 Designing and Building a Real-World Service-Oriented Architecture |
Eben Hewitt; Kevin Williams |
| Thursday , May 08 | ||
| 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM | Intel General Session Innovations through Software | |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | TS-5793 Groovy and Grails: Changing the Landscape of Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE Platform) Patterns |
Guillaume Laforge; Graeme Rocher |
| 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM | Break between sessions | |
| 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | TS-5415 Java™ Servlet 3.0 API: What’s New and Exciting |
Rajiv Mordani; Sridatta Viswanath |
| 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM | Thurdsay Pavilion Hours: 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | |
| 11:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Lunch Served from 11:50 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | TS-6578 ! It’s High Time: A New Date and Time API for the Java™ Platform |
Stephen Colebourne; Michael Santos |
| 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM | TS-6457 Choosing Your Java™ Technology-Based Web Framework: A Comparison |
Richard Pack; Stacey Schneider |
| 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM | TS-6373 Next-Generation Web User Experience Interoperability with Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE Platform) Technology and Silverlight |
Robert Bell; Laurence Moroney |
| 5:10 PM – 6:30 PM | Evening Break | |
| 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM | Motorola General Session Dial in, Drive Deep: Using Motorola’s Platforms to Reach Consumer and Enterprise Markets | |
| 6:30 PM – 7:20 PM | BOF-6588 Writing the Next Great Java™ Technology Book |
Joshua Bloch; Brian Goetz |
| 7:30 PM – 8:20 PM | BOF-6400 The Future of Guice |
Bob Lee |
| 8:30 PM – 9:20 PM | BOF-5998 Meet the Java™ Posse |
Tor Norbye; Dick Wall |
| Friday , May 09 | ||
| 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Sun General Session Extreme Innovation | |
| 10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | TS-6807 What’s New in Ajax |
Dion Almaer; Ben Galbraith |
| 11:50 AM – 12:10 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 11:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Lunch Served from 11:50 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. | |
| 12:10 PM – 1:10 PM | TS-6470 The Layperson’s Guide to Building a Better User Experience |
Burkhardt Hufnagel |
| 1:10 PM – 1:30 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | TS-4864 Java™ SE 6 and Java EE 6 Platform the Operating System for Interactive RIAs |
Adam Bien |
| 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 2:50 PM – 3:50 PM | TS-5389 Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java™ Technology |
Tony Constantinides |
| 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM | Break between sessions | |
| 4:10 PM – 5:10 PM | TS-5211 Integrated Web Testing With Selenium |
Dan Fabulich; Patrick Lightbody |
