JavaOne wrap-up

(I had intended to release this earlier, but after 4 full days of conferencing and partying, I just didn’t have the energy and the concentration to finish it. But here it goes.) JavaOne is over. Five days of keynotes, sessions, exhibitions and thousands of people moving between them. This was my first official JavaOne, although […]
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Oracle Appreciation Event with The Black Eyed Peas

Not everything in JavaOne is about Java. Since Oracle decided to combine all of its conferences (OpenWorld, Oracle Develop and now that they own Sun, JavaOne), they did a massive party at Treasure Island in San Francisco. Around 50,000 people went there to enjoy different bands and artists, like the Steve Miller Band, Don Henley, […]
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Spring Roo

I attended the session entitled "Extreme Java Productivity: Enterprise Applications in Just Minutes", which is just a fancy session name for the presentation of Spring Roo. What is Roo? In short, Roo is a Rapid Application Development tool that allows you to start a typical webapp project from scratch, add things like database, entities, etc. […]
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JDK 7 and Java SE 7 session

Mark Reinhold just finished his presentation that describes what lies ahead for Java 7. He divided the new features in 5 topics: Productivity, Performance, Universality, Modularity Integration, Serviceability. In the Productivity area, we should expect to see new features like simplified Generics, which allows for easier code writing by not having to repeat the generic […]
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