JavaOne - May 5 - May 9th
JavaOne 2008
Without actually thinking anyone would read this, I've been trying to spend a little more time writing in my blog. But work and life in general seem to get in the way.
Good News is on the horizon! I'm about to close on a new home with my squeeze, Lisa, and I'm off to JavaOne this week. I know, can't get much better than that! It's been since 05, the last time I went to San Fran to visit Duke and the city by the bay, so I'm going to try to make the most of it. Major changes to Java and other languages based on the JVM have arrived so the goal is to check some of those languages out (Grails, JRuby). Also I want to get more information on JSR 296. I've started a development in that area and I'm curious to see what is going on with that. I will for sure check out some Spring session as it's moving to 2.5 release, so I'm sure there is valuable information there. As I'll need that because I've been messing with the new Spring Web Flow 2.0.0 RC1 release. I also have a session on jMaki, not to sure what to expect, but it should be interesting as I haven't been messing much with the Ajax stuff, so this seem like a good time to check it out of some hot clam chowder. Other notables are a session on JXTA which I haven't seen nor heard much from in years (I did my thesis using this technology). I'm quite interested to see if anything changed there (Wait as I'm getting the link, I see there is a new version 2.5 that has been released in November 07).
So as I prepare for my trip, I'm looking forward to all the information I can cram into my brain for the week and feel comfortable knowing that all the paperwork is in place for the new pad, for when I return, we can have a smooth transition from our current location to the new one. (Let's hope these damn gas prices give)
