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Blogs
All JavaOne and CommunityOne 2008 blogs written by Sun employees.
OpenJDK and IcedTea, A view from the Fedora side
Last week, on the first day of JavaOne , I was serendipitously able to grab Tom Fitzsimmons , (the owner of Iced Tea ) Patrick Macdonald (Tom ' s boss) and Karsten Wade (community contact for OpenJDK ) from Red Hat for a podcast. We sat down and talked about the journey to get OpenJDK into Fedora that began in earnest last JavaOne.
BTW today just happens to be the launch of Fedora 9 . Congratulations to the whole Fedora community!
My Talk with Tom, Patrick and Karsten (23:43) Listen ( Mp3) Listen (ogg) 
Patrick, Tom (kneeling) and Karsten -- helping to put the "Open " in Java.
Some of the topics we tackle: - Attacking the "remaining 4% " to get OpenJDK into Fedora ASAP (leveraging GNUClasspath components)
- FOSDEM 2007 -- building bridges with the Sun crew
- Trademark issues and the birth of "IcedTea "(Fitz really did go back to his hotel room and hack rpms last JavaOne after OpenJDK was announced)
- IcedTea - > OpenJDK in Fedora 9.
- OpenJDK now available for RHEL5 and CentOS5 via EPEL and getting it ready to being moved into RHEL5 proper
- NetBeans coming soon to a Fedora 9 update
Pau for now...
OpenJDK in Fedora 9
Fedora 9 (Sulphur)
was released earlier today, complete with a set of OpenJDK 6
packages . Dead-simple installation instructions can be found here .
As an added bonus these packages have also been contributed into the EPEL project, a community-run
effort to make Fedora packages available to users of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5, CentOS 5, and other RHEL 5 derivatives.
Neither these packages nor the Ubuntu packages
would ’ve been possible without the continued efforts of many folks at Red Hat,
so thanks again to Lillian Angel , Tom Fitzsimmons , Andrew Haley , Francis Kung , Keith Seitz, Joshua Sumali , and Karsten Wade .
A good start
First Ubuntu , now
Fedora 9, RHEL, and friends —I ’d say we ’re off to a pretty good start in
our campaign to get OpenJDK 6 into every major Linux distribution.
Start reving those competitive engines, kids
We ' ve got a contest to tell you about. (I got clued in to this one thanks to Dr. Chhandomay Mandal of Reviews Interactive fame) The target demographic (as we like to say in the biz) for this one is students. So if you can type as fast w/your thumbs on a phone as you type w/your fingers on a keyboard, you ' re a good candidate for this one. :-) It ' s all about OpenSolaris and Netbeans. We want to know what you think. And thoughtful, useful reviews can win up to $250 in Visa Debit cards! Here ' s what you ' ve got to do to play (along): 1. Download
OpenSolaris 2008.5 OS and/or NetBeans IDE 6.1.
2. Test the product and post a review!
3. Submit the URL of the review.
4. Do it before June 6, 2008.
There are more details in Chhandomay ' s blog and also in the main student reviews page. Fun, fun, fun! Mary
JavaOne Labs
 Ok, so for all of you that missed it (and shame on you for missing JavaOne!) all the content for all the hands on labs is on-line. Freely downloadable. Even the Sun SPOT Hands On Lab. YOu can ' t download the hardware, of course, but you can do the whole thing in the Emulator!
Go get it all here . I hope you have a lot of spare time, because there were a lot of Labs this year!
[ If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
-- Norm Schryer ]
Propeller
Being a picture of one, with some other things.
It ’ s a window. Some of the people and things are reflected in it, others
seen through it. Honestly I don ’ t know which is which. If you ’ re from Vancouver and the
propeller rings a bell, you ’ ve probably walked by it down on Granville Island.
JavaOne 2008 Wrapup
JavaOne 2008 is finally over ... 9th consecutive one for me and
extremely busy as always!
And now let me talk about my formal speaking engagements (including the
slides):
- JavaU Bonus
Evening Course on GlassFish Application Server - Shreedhar
and I delivered a Bonus
Evening Course on GlassFish in JavaU. We talked about
GlassFish in depth - general overview, concepts, Metro Web services ,
dynamic
languages support , high availability/clustering and lots of
other details. The slides for the course are available here .
Read more details in Shreedhar ' s
Writeup .
- GlassFish
Unconference - Vivek
and I led the " Scripting in GlassFish " session @ GlassFish
Unconference
and then I led the " Web services " session. It was very free-form forum,
basically answering questions/clarifications from the participants and
seeking feedback on our direction.
It was great to know that people love Metro support in NetBeans and are some
are using the IDE for that reason only.
- Scripting in
GlassFish (BOF 5111) - Vivek
and I presented on " Scripting in GlassFish " and explained the support
for different dynamic languages such as Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails,
Python/Django on GlassFish. This preso showed bunch of demos including
GlassFish v3 gem installation and deployment (screencast coming soon),
GlassFish v3 Update Center, Rails Development/Deployment options,
Groovy/Grails and Python/Django deployment. The slides are available here .
You can find the latest information about support for different dynamic
languages on glassfish-scripting.dev.java.net .
- Lab 4530:
Building Rich Web Applications with jMaki - Doris
and I delivered Lab
4530: Building Rich Web Applications with jMaki . If you could
not attend JavaOne, then you can follow the instructions
at your own pace and download
the entire lab .
The complete material for all JavaOne 2008 Hands-on-Labs is
available here .
The material is pretty comprehensive and of high quality. I highly
recommend refering to this material for sharpening your skills.
- Tic Tac Tac @
General Session Keynote - I
presented " Tic Tac Toe Demo " at General Session Keynote on Tuesday
afternoon. This demo was a multi-player game developed in multiple
scripting languages (Ruby, Groovy and Python) and their associated Web
frameworks (Rails, Grails and Django) and all deployed on GlassFish v3
TP2. The main idea was to showcase multi-lingual support on GlassFish
v3 and still able to use GlassFish features such as GlassFish Comet
to push the events to browser. The entire source code for the demo will
be released shortly and I ' ll announce the availability.
You can watch the entire video here
(starting at approx 1:10 into it). Hope you enjoy the War Games -esque
look-and-feel. It was a keynote demo Hat-trick
for me ( jMaki/Phobos
@ 2007 , .NET
Interoperability @ 2006 . I ' m happy to be labeled as
" GlassFish Guy " :)
And
then of course I met lots of others at the booth, in
hallway/sessions/parties and elsewhere. I ' ve taken few action items for
generating new blogs/screencasts and they ' ll appear shortly on this
blog.
I took lots of pictures through out the event and posted them
regularly. They are all available here .
A consolidated album is inlined:
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