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Day 4

December 15th, 2006 Mario Hochreiter

Day 4 started with a keynote held by Marc Fleury inventor of JBoss. This was the craziest presentation so far and more like an Eminem show than the normal “technical” style of presentation. Afterwards Erich Gamma spoke about the Process they are using developing Eclipse in a highly distributed environment. Our project could learn a lot from these techniques because we are facing very similar problems. He also showed IBM’s upcoming team development tool called “JAZZ”.

Next to the keynotes I attended the talk about Grail hold by the inventor of Grails Graeme Rocher. Once again it was very interesting to see a dynamic language environment in action. Grails can be seen as kind of a façade for frameworks like EJB, Hibernate, Spring … which is written in Groovy. The goal is to provide Java newbie’s an easy start into the complex world of Java where you do not have to touch one single XML file to build for example a web application.

After lunch I first attended the talk about JSR-277 Java-Module-System by Stanley M. Ho leader of JSR-277. The goal of this JSR is to eliminate the problems that come with the JAR deployment (e.g. CLASSPATH hell, JAR hell). There this JSR describes a new packaging format as well as a new language feature which is coped in JSR-294. Afterwards I attended the talk called “Dynamic Applications with Faces and Ajax” by Roger Kitain the lead architect of JSF at SUN. This talk was about the possibility to ajaxify the JSF components today and how to integrate this into the upcoming JSF 2.0 standard where this point will be a major one.

Neal Gafter’s talk about Closures for Java was besides Brian Goetz’s talks one of the most fascainating one. Those guys really know how to talk about a very complex  topic in a very clear way so that  almost everyone  can understand it.

I was closing the day with Ted Newards talk about Interoperability between Java and .NET. This was one of the funniest talk. Ted is a very funny guy but he also has a lot of very deep knowledge in the field of both frameworks. I think his day must have more than 24 hours.

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