Daily Conference Coverage 2008

Fabrizio Giudici: And I made it
Now I can say, at last, that I'm a JavaOne speaker, really, not only a successful submitter. This year no headache, sore throat, cold, flu, pain in the ass prevented me from performing my talk. Not even the stinking MacBook Pro power supply that broke again a couple of days ago.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Ron Hitchens: In With The New
Thursday was an interesting day, but tiring. The third day of a conference always seems to be the roughest in terms of comfort level.  [java.net Weblogs] 

John D. Mitchell: JavaOne Day 4: Urgent Public Health Warning: Stomach Flu
A stomach flu outbreak is happening in San Francisco (including the area around Moscone) so be extra careful. At this point, the JavaOne show will continue.  [java.net Weblogs] 

John Ferguson Smart: JavaOne 2008 - FindBugs is a great little tool, and it just keeps getting better!
There are a lot of static analysis tools out there, but Findbugs is unique. Where Checkstyle will raise 500 issues, and PMD 100, FindBugs will only raise 10 - but you damn well better look at them carefully!  [java.net Weblogs] 

CNET Blogs: Negative Approach: Thoughts on JavaOne 2008 (mostly good, but lots of confusing messages from Sun)
I have been to nearly every JavaOne event its gone through some ups and downs. In the last two years it seems like JavaOne is meaningful again. Contrary to what many people think Java is thriving more than I would have expected. The biggest distraction is Sun themselves who continue to mix messages and project relevance with marketing and strategic confusion.  [CNET Blogs: Negative Approach] 

Christian Frei: What language/framework should I choose?
There is a confusing variety of languages/frameworks in use. Is it clear what you use for what?  [java.net Weblogs] 

Cay Horstmann: Java One Day 3
My day 3 at Java One ranged from the Nimbus UI and the future of JSF to interesting discussions about closures and Scala. Details below.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Daniel H. Steinberg: What is Java good at
I've been listening here at JavaOne to people talk about all the things that Java could be. They talk about some feature that this language over here has and they say Java should have that. I don't know...  [java.net Weblogs] 

On2 Company News: Sun Adds Comprehensive Video Capabilities to Ubiquitous Java Platform with On2 Technologies
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies (AMEX: ONT) to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the "screens of your life". [On2 Company News]

Rachel Hill: JavaOne 2008 Day 2
Josh and Rachel explore the Pavilion floor and meet up with the guys at Sun Labs where they learn more about Hydrazine, Project Wonderland, The Lively Kernel, The Java Deployment Group, the Java Tools Community, and Sun Spots!   [java.net Weblogs] 

Timothy M. O'Brien: FindBugs Session: Notes
Sitting in the FindBugs session, it's pretty interesting. The last time I interacted with static analysis it was a product from Parasoft (?) and it wasn't that compelling. FindBugs looks interesting, simple, and is integrated with Hudson. Everyone seems to be moving to Hudson, Kohsuke has created a very compelling CI server.  [Timothy M. O'Brien's Blog] 

InfoWorld: Sun defends JavaFX Script
Despite multitude of scripting languages, need is served by new platform, Sun official says. [InfoWorld]

Arun Gupta: Take 10 - Pictures from JavaOne 2008
Continuing from Take 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and more pictures from JavaOne 2008. All JavaOne 2008 pictures are available here.  [java.net Weblogs] 

John Ferguson Smart: JavaOne 2008 - towards user interfaces that rock!
Enhanced user experience is a key theme coming out of this year's JavaOne. There are countless sessions on innovative technologies such as JavaFX, the Google Web Toolkit, Comet, and Android. All of these have in common that they are Java-based technologies that allow you to create enhanced user experiences without all the hard work.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Van Riper: JavaOne Day Two - Personal Highlights
Helping a high school student get a Sun SPOT from Sun for his school computer club has to be number one. The Java Champions BOF was pretty interesting. I wonder how many people know you don't have to be a Java Champion to attend this BOF.   [java.net Weblogs] 

John Ferguson Smart: JavaOne 2008 - some photos
A few photos to give the general feel of this year's JavaOne.  [java.net Weblogs] 

Petar Tahchiev: JavaONE So Far
Hi everybody, as most of the people blogging on java.net, I am also going to dedicate my blog entry to the JavaONE conference. This year, is my first year on the conference, and I really have to say that it is impressively big. No wait, of course it's not big, it's HUGE.   [java.net Weblogs]