This will be my last post from JavaOne this year–I’m headed back home. But that doesn’t mean that the rest of the JBoss crew is. They’re here through Friday to bring you more packed mini-sessions at the Pavilion booth and a few more technical sessions.
Here’s the schedule for the rest of the week and another personal recommendation. » Read more
Gavin King’s packed Web Beans technical session
Monday’s CommunityOne crowd was manageable and pretty much what I expected. Tuesday’s crowd was larger, but I walked straight into the technical sessions without a problem. This morning I stepped outside for a few minutes, and when I came back in, there was a line stretching across the entire large hallway and down an adjacent narrow one. Then I realized that was the line I wanted to be in.
At the end of that long (but quickly moving) line, Gavin King from JBoss spoke to a standing-room-only crowd about the basics of Web Beans. The presentation included a lot of example code, stepping everyone through binding types, deployment types, producer methods, and more.
If you’re interested in hearing Gavin yourself, we have a video interview of him talking about Web Beans. » Read more
Today was the first official day of JavaOne. I visited a couple of non-JBoss sessions that sounded really interesting, and they were–so now I share them with you. The first is about an improved web recommendation system, and the second is for improving collaboration with your off-site coworkers.
But first, if you’re here with us…
Come visit us at the JBoss booth in the Pavilion. We’re straight back and on the right when you come through the door. Every day, we’re holding 15-minute mini-sessions in the booth on the hour. You can meet the core developers and ask your questions in person. We’ve also got JBoss t-shirts and free entitlements of JBoss Developer Studio.
Also, the JBoss technical sessions are all still ahead of us. So if you’re here at JavaOne, be sure to check them out. If you’re not, keep reading this week to hear more about what’s going on.
This week Red Hat Magazine is in San Francisco to bring you to JavaOne. (Or to join you if you’re here too!) I call it day -1 because JavaOne itself hasn’t officially started yet. Today things kicked off with CommunityOne, the “free and open developer conference,” featuring a good variety of sessions and representations from across the open source spectrum. It also included beanbags in front of Star Wars on continuous loop and human hamster balls–never let it be said that developers don’t like to have fun. » Read more
How did Mark Proctor get started on the Drools project and–more importantly–why? (To get caught up on what Drools is and find out who Mark is, see the first part of this video.) Hear about how an interest in artificial intelligence drew Proctor in and what sort of university developments and business uses keep him–and the project–going.
And if you enjoy this kind of access to smart developers speaking about the projects they’re passionate about, you’ll want to join us at the Red Hat Summit. Or catch some more of the highlights from JBoss World 2008. That’s where we filmed this piece, and so much more. Enjoy.
We hope you’ve enjoyed our videos from JBoss World–here’s one more. While we were in Orlando, we talked with Dr. Mark Little, technical development manager for the SOA (service-oriented architecture) platform at Red Hat. Little talks about these highly adaptable and agile environments, and the (government) customers that require them. He also details how MetaMatrix additions serve this project, and what kinds of tools and applications will be supported in the future.
Meet Bela Ban, a developer who began the JGroups and JBoss Cache projects. He’s now the technical lead of the JBoss clustering team, continuing the work he began as an college instructor.
Ban talks about the background of both projects, as well as upcoming developments, including increased throughput, persistence, security, remote accessibility, and other features. He also discusses the business needs that can be solved with these tools–just a small sample from his talk at JBoss World.
We got the chance to talk to a lot of developers at JBoss World, including Mark Proctor. In case you don’t know the name, he’s the leader of the Drools project, also known as JBoss Rules to the enterprise folks.
In this segment, we asked what it’s like to be a developer for a project that’s part of the Service Oriented Architecture: how it’s integrated with that philosophy, uses in the real world, and what the future of Drools/ JBoss Rules is.
