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JavaOne 2008 made one thing abundantly clear: everyone who owns a product, being it a commercial product or an open source product, desperately needs attention. A product that is not talked about might as well not exist. A necessity for making a product successful is momentum, a community, a positive spiral, a lot of buzz,some [...]

Apart from sessions in which an overview of a certain topic is presented, JavaOne also had a few sessions in which the audience got the chance to actually do some work theirselves. These so called labs typically took up two hours in contrast to "normal" sessions that took up one hour. I attended two of [...]

Some words, names of terminology quickly come to govern a conference such as JavaOne 2008. Some things are talk of the day or even the hour, while other themes and topics are hardly discussed. It may mean anything. And it is a subjective list, non-exhaustive, as well. Some of the Java-speak of this year’s conference [...]

I ran into an issue at a customer site where certain triggers were disabled in the database where they should be enabled. It appeared that an update script, that is run every night, first disables all triggers on a couple of tables. Then does what it needs to do, without the overhead of the trigger [...]

While at the Oracle booth in the Java Pavilion during JavaOne, I took the opportunity to pose a question to one of the JDeveloper product managers about an issue that I think will be important to embed rich UI widgets from Java Script libraries such as Scriptaculous, Yahoo and DoJo in ADF Faces application and [...]

JavaServer Faces has been around since 2004. The current release is 1.2. Work has started to produce the 2.0 release which will be part of JEE6, which is slated for Late 2008/Spring 2009. I attended a presentation by Ed Burns and Roger Kitain, both from Sun and both co-leader of the team that develops this [...]

The second day of JavaOne 2008 started with a key note by Oracle. After that I attended a presentation about the Swing Application Framework and WebBeans. Next I hung around at the Pavilion and then attended a presentation with THE BEST AND COOLEST demo I have ever seen. Curious? Read on.Key note So, Oracle kicked off [...]

On day 2 of JavaOne 2008, Lucas Jellema and Peter Ebell did a presentation about enabling company and user level customizations of JSF applications. Using the title "Did We Spoil The End User? Building Personalization into JavaServer Faces Technology-Based Applications" they entertained the public in a role playing presentation. Lucas played the role of a [...]

On day 2 of JavaOne 2008 I visited the Sun booth at the Pavilion to ask some questions about the Open Portal project. There I got word that Sun and Liferay have bundled their forces in a project called Web Synergy. I received a USB stick with lotsa software on it, including a zip file [...]

This morning at JavaOne 2008, Oracle officially announced the availability of the Technology Preview of its 11g Fusion Middleware stack. With the production release of Fusion Middleware 11g only months away (but how many months, no one can officially comment on, only that it will be in this calendar year), developers and architects can now [...]

The logo is not quite correct, as WE will be speaking at JavaOne. Tonight at 20.30, BOF 5224: Did We Spoil the End User? Building Personalization into JavaServer™ Faces Technology-Based Applications gets underway in room (and it is a pretty big one) Hall E 134. On Sunday we had 130 registrations for this session. I [...]

It is the day after. The second day of JavaOne 2008 is about to begin. I should quickly go into the Schedule Builder to make some last minute refinements to my planned sessions. The trends of this conference start to emerge, and of course I have to be where the action is. Yesterday I was [...]

Today JavaOne 2008 ofiicially started. About 15,000 Java minded people showed up at Moscone Center in San Francisco. On our way there, my colleague Lucas remarked "Java One at Mosc One" Key NoteWe were welcomed at Moscone with some modern dance music. On stage, a bunch of dancers were performing what I thought was a mix [...]

At this moment we are sitting in the Moscone Center South in the general session offically opening JavaOne 2008. The room is very much packed and the T-shirt plus Jeans guys are on stage (James Gosling, John Gage).The first advice given to the 15k or so attendees is: do not be shy. Ask that question [...]

The first action packed day is over. I have written on some of the most interesting topics I attended sessions on yesterday. For details on:OpenSSO, see http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=3129 OpenSocial API and Project SocialSite, see http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=3132  EclipseLink, see Wouter’s blog and my comment http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=3131 In this article some shorter comments about the other sessions, including jMaki [...]

The Web is better when it is social - is the tagline for the OpenSocial (API) initiative. This initiative, from Google and many partners in the Social  Networking arena such as LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, MySpace, orkut, Plaxo and companies such as Oracle, aims at defining a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With [...]

One of the ways we can get data into the Active Data Cache of our BAM Server in Oracle 11g SOA Suite - is through the BAM WebServices. So instead of having BAM listen to JMS, having the BAM Adapter and BPEL Sensor actions send data to the ADC, we have this omnipresent facility that [...]

On Sunday, May 4 about 50 GlassFish users and developers got together to have some informal sessions about several GlassFish related topics. In the past weeks, anyone planning to attend these sessions got the chance to register themselves on the GlassFish un-conference wiki page. The page lists about 85 people, but I don’t think they [...]

Near the end of CommunityOne, I am currently attending a session on OpenSSO by a lively team of presenterts from Sun. The objective of OpenSSO is to provide a way to establish the identity once for a user and share that identity across a range of applications. Or in the mission statement: "The goal of [...]

The wait is over. The biggest Java show on earth is underway. Well, it is a big event, but it is not just a Java show. This first day - CommunityOne - is much more than Java or even the direct Java eco-system as it is sometimes called. Jonathan Schwartz just now compared the eco-system [...]