Daily Conference Coverage 2008

Terrence Barr: LWUIT released at JavaOne
The Lightweight UI Toolkit was officially announced to the developer community during yesterday's JavaOne mobility keynote by Jeet Kaul (video and audio archive). An early access binary release of the LWUIT library is available immediately and the full source code will be available by summer of this year.   [java.net Weblogs] 

Cay Horstmann: Java One Day 2
So I decided to make my own themes: Ease of development, and transparency.  [java.net Weblogs] 

CNET News.com: CEO Jonathan Schwartz live from JavaOne
In an interview with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz sheds some light on JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment, and Project Hyrdazine, a new cloud computing service in development.  [CNET News.com]

Timothy M. O'Brien: JavaOne Impressions from Tuesday: Busy
There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on this year, a general sense that Java has it’s mojo back. Here are some quick observations   [Timothy M. O'Brien's Blog] 

John D. Mitchell: JavaOne 2008: Day 1, The Good, The Bad, and The Lame
What, if anything, talked about on Day 1 of JavaOne 2008 was of any import to Java developers?  [java.net Weblogs] 

John O'Conner: Do we rely too much on XP?
You can create Java apps for a multitude of platforms as long as you're developing on Windows XP.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Ron Hitchens: Hehe, 3-D Stuff Is Cool
Now with 50% more dimensions than 2-D  [java.net Weblogs] 

CNN: Musicians embrace Blu-ray format
Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios. Young revealed his plans Tuesday at a Sun Microsystems Inc. conference in San Francisco.  [CNN]

John Ferguson Smart: JavaOne 2008 - some brand new monitoring and profiling tools for your Java apps
Performance monitoring and profiling applications is one of my favorite pet topics. So I was keen to here today's talk on "Improving Application Performance with Monitoring and Profiling Tools".  [java.net Weblogs] 

Christian Frei: Dynamics in Open Source: Sun and MySQL
Since MySQL was acquired by Sun downloads have gone up dramatically as Rich Green pointed out at JavaOne.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Neto Marin: LWUIT sounds great!!!
I've read about LWUIT at Terrence's blog and so, I decided to try it. And it sounds great !!!  [java.net Weblogs] 

Jim Driscoll: Comet TicTacToe
Here's the Comet TicTacToe that I went over in my BOF on Comet on Wednesday night. It's pretty simple - just 200 lines of Java code (including the game logic), 50 lines of JavaScript (embedded in an HTML page), 50 lines of HTML, and a 75 line CSS file. Simple stuff, but if you're looking to write your own Comet app, this might help get you started.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Jean-Francois Arcand: JavaOne.CometBufferOverflowException: Asynchronous Ajax for Revolutionary Web Applications session Replay this Friday
Euuuuhh..1100 peoples showed up for our Asynchronous Ajax for Revolutionary Web Applications session this morning...Good news for peoples that couldn't enter the room: Replay this Friday @ 12h10!  [java.net Weblogs] 

j1-2k8-mtW07: JMX for Unit Tests in Test-Driven Development
Using the Java Management Extensions -- JMX -- to observe internal state provides an elegant alternative to reflection and compiler hacks. As a byproduct it provides a JMX interface for the completed system. This talk will cover how to benefit from unit testing with JMX, and the code and overhead required to use the technique.

Marina Sum: OpenSSO Showcased and Demo'd
Single sign-on and federation across enterprises made easy.  [java.net Weblogs] 

John O'Conner: Modularity in the Java Platform
Deliverance from Jar hell is available soon.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Daniel H. Steinberg: Swarms for good not gossip
Gathering useful information from swarms of mobile devices attached to intelligent, caring beings.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas: The Script Bowl
The Script Bowl: A Scripting language shootout  [java.net Weblogs] 

Robert Cooper: Java One Day 0
So, the big kickoff for JavaOne. I guess there was news. Solaris on EC2, which is fine. More JavaFX demos. Expected that. Other than that, what? So one thing that really struck me: Project Hydrazine. Can someone tell me what...  [Robert Cooper's Blog] 

Van Riper: JavaOne Day One - Personal Highlights
Seeing JavaFX application running on Android. Attending the JavaFX overview session by Christopher Oliver. Seeing Neil Young talk about the project to make his vast archive of musical work available using Java and Blue Ray technologies. He had been waiting since the 80's for the right combination of hardware and software technology to do this.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Timothy M. O'Brien: Neil Young at JavaOne
Participated in a Q+A session after yesterday’s keynote. Sat down with Neil Young, Larry Johnson, some Sun executives, and a small group of reporters including Tim O’Reilly. Young and Johnson struck me as animated and excited about both the archive project and the electric car (more below).  [Timothy M. O'Brien's Blog]