Sun Tech Days : Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th of February 2009.______________________________________________________________________Day 1: Wednesday 18th Welcome speech – Amazing Kid of 11 years old playing many drums at the same time– 3 Demos Desktop Virtualization + Shark JavaFX + Java TV – Sun box-)– Sun India CEO speech– James Gosling talking about the evolution of Java (java is used every where) [NetBeans 6.5 what’s new ?] Angela Caiceda – Internal File versionning control– Refactor preview– Fix import– Help used to find some menu used– Database management– Code completion formating– Code– Import from eclipse project [Glasfish & the future of Java EE] Arun Gupta – Application server– Open source version– Commercial version (Monitoring tools)– Sun Communication server (demo of 2 phones calling each other)– Project deployement– Clustes management– Version 2 coming with Netbeans 6.5 [Netbeans with Php development – HOL] Justin Bolter – Debug step by step as a client side language– code completion– code template– Objects view,etc.– Drag and drop html elements ______________________________________________________________________Day 2 : Thursday 19th [New way of working with Swing] Lee Chuck – “Bind”– Splash screen– Nimbus for the design aspect (you don’t have to know how Swing works)– Display on different screen (class Graphics to help you identify the device)– User experience (java icon,Field getting focus onload of the application,pressing enter to validate as form,build an application with a tray icon,undecorated window to display any kind of window (a cat walking on the screen),etc.) [UML Modelling with Netbeans] Ashwin Rao – Design Pattern– For more efficiency, some elements have been removed (unused UML diagrams)– Synchronous manual (Code generated and diagrams generated) [Get involved in Open source projects] [Restful HOL -Hands On Lab-]– Glassfish (application server basically but can do more than that)– Webservice [Java Mobile]– JavaFX :with his magick bind method. The bind method basically allows you to change the value of one variable dynamically. Ex: if i bind x to y and if y is changing (on drag of an image for example) i don’t need to worry about coding to update x.– More classes to make the programming easier [Mobile and Embedded Java Update]– Magic pen piano (a demo where the piano keys were drwan on a paper and with a pen the person was able to play the notes awesome).– Java Sun Spot (used for robots, chip)– Golf swing measurement (using the Java sunspot)– Java Phone (LWUIK) [Personnal impression] {Pros – things to remember}– demo must show new interresting things– the way people were presenting– HOL are available for people after the event (because it is quite impossible to finish them and ask questions if you are new to the technology)– You can ask questions on the author blog– Importance of local teams in open source project (the maintain the group when you are gone :-))– The place and decoration is better than the website of the event 🙂 {Cons}– Marketing of “NetBeans”– JavaFX is for animation but the environment is not yet as easy for designers (compare to Flash); its more for java developpers who want to do animation.– Eclipse has already many of the “new features” (many plugins) . So you can choose Net Beans or whatever tool you want but don’t become slave of the tool or … ;-D– You can’t ask questions in the room (i guess because of the busy schedule and so many people willing to ask more and more questions …). I was a cool event anyway, new environnement, new people especially for a guy like me who is not java java :-D. Ressources:http://java.sun.com/www.netbeans.orghttp://javafx.com/https://glassfish.dev.java.net/http://community.java.net/mobileandembedded/