Category: JavaOne

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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 […]

Guillermo Castro 
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Comments about JavaOne

Well, I was going to try and talk about every session that I’ve been to, and about many of the new and old frameworks that I’ve seen, but one of the downsides of having the sessions in multiple hotels is that you’re basically running from one place to another in between session. But I will […]

Guillermo Castro 
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JavaOne Keynote

Yesterday I attended Oracle’s JavaOne keynote, presented by Thomas Kurian. The keynote focused on how has Java evolved and where it is right now. Millions of users use Java every day and the JVM is everywhere, form desktop computers to embedded devices. But we all knew that. As for the future of Java, Thomas mentioned […]

Guillermo Castro 
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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. […]

Guillermo Castro 
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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 […]

Guillermo Castro