Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Sun Tech Days Italy - Rome

Today I attended the Sun Tech Days Italy event in Rome. By a fast look at the agenda speeches seem to be pretty interesting but in general in this kind of events IMHO the quality is very poor, maybe also for the very short time available for every single talk.

I was wrong. The afternoon was flighted since all talks was very interesting! In the morning, instead, I was in the JUG stand along with Mara Marzocchi. JUG Roma staff is working for the next upcoming Java Day 2007 event in Rome as well.

Below the agenda I attended today:










Java Scripting: JavaFX Script and JRuby - Sridhar Reddy

Much more deeper than the talk listened at Jazoon '07. Today Sridhar talked about the JavaFX syntax language. JavaFX contains very interesting features. One for all the bind keyword that allow to listen changes in chain.
Java Persistence API: Simplifying Persistence - Sang Shin

Sang is a veteran speaker, nice and never predictable. What a shame for no one words about JDO specification!
Ajax and Web 2.0 Related Frameworks and Toolkits - Sang Shin

Sang explained in detail all kinds of Ajax frameworks (Dojo, DRW, GWT, etc.) with some slides and a working demo for every single one!

Building Rich Web Applications using jMaki and Phobos - Doris Chen

Doris fired me the interest for jMaki, what Jazoon's talk didn't! Very cool tool. I'd like to spend a little more time on investigating about the integration with Roma Meta Framework.


Here the full agenda: http://it.sun.com/sunnews/events/2007/sept/jc07

And in conclusion:
- I note down some improvements in Roma based on frameworks seen today.
- I forced me to give a chance to the NetBeans IDE. When? After the release of final 1.0 of Roma Framework, of course :-)

Friday, September 07, 2007

Preview of Release 1.0rc2

For most of you August is a "dead month". Roma staff, instead, worked hardly to complete the release of 1.0rc2. Now you can taste a preview by downloading it from the SVN repository.

Take care to read information about compatibilities issues and migration here:

http://romaframework.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/PreviewOfRelease10rc2