Devoxx 2009: Keynotes 18/11/2009: Parleys.com, Oracle, Sun (JEE6) and Adobe

Stephan Janssen: Devoxx organizer,Parleys.com founder

• presented his new Parleys v3
  • support for 'spaces' and channels in spaces → propose parleys.com as a platform
  • monetize:
    • subscription for impatient viewers (i.e. for immediate access to the talks); talks with free access are provided within a year
    • give private spaces to companies for education purposes
  • still presented in the over-Flashy way
  • I hope they'll get the podcast feed – finally – fixed.

Oracle slot

• mostly boring management talk, with lots of empty words
• WebLogic DM:
  • heavily based on OSGI
    • 'Profiles' group technical bundles
    • 'Bundles' are the application-specific modules
  • possibility to run on a “bare-metal” hypervisor VMWare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor– new concept to me

Sun:

• JEE6
  • final release scheduled for 10/12/2009
  • → enterprise development made simpler
  • basic contents (a.o.)
    • new stuff:
      • JAX-RS: annotation-based RESTfull API
      • Bean validation, used in the full stack (JSF and JPA)
      • Dependency Injection (DI) 1.0
    • updates:
      • EJB 3.1
      • Servlet 3.0
      • JSF 2.0
      • …
  • support for technical profiles: set of basic, but quite complete JEE components.
    • e.g. WebProfile: Servlet 3.0, JSF, EJB 3.1 lite, DI
  • pluggable, modular web applications
    • web.xml is now optional
    • web-fragment.xml
    • annotations:
      • @WebServlet
      • @WebFilter
    • resource jars → finally a standard way to package static resources
    • programmable registration API
  • Dependency Injection 1.0:
    • @Resource
    • @Inject → Guice-like standard solution
    • Inject metamodel
  • EJB3.1
    • @Singleton
    • @Startup
    • @Asynchronous
    • EJBContainer API, useable in Java SE (for testing)
    • EJB's, directly useable in webapps
  • JSF 2.0
    • standard facelets
    • autodiscovery of component libraries
    • Ajax & partial view loading
    • JavaScript API
    • composite components
• Glassfish demo
  • Eclipse & NetBeans support
  • not sure how Oracle will handle the GlassFish versus WebLogic proposal
    
  • great programmers' experience:
    • fast startup
    • incremental deploys applied to a running application without restarting → JRebel-like feature.

Adobe stuff

• skipped this one – too much flash for me :-)