Sun Developer Days 2006

Few words about Sun’s Developer day’s event: big thanks to everybody who was involved organizing event – very much appreciated. It was also nice to see many old friends and coworkers. Here is Manfred’s blog with more details:

I found following bits of information interesting ( Slides are available from here ):

• There are 1.5 billion Java enabled phones.
• Mac has a faster and more efficient GUI, swing flies on it unlike on Linux where it’s too slow. This is apparently has to do with X.
• Check out OpenSolaris.org for Sun’s source code.
• dev.java.net is just like sourceforge.net but for java projects only.
• eBay has 4 million of lines of java code. (Vista for example has 40)
• JavaCreator best suited for developing Web apps. It has full “round trip” editing for the generated code.
• BlueJ is and IDE for kids and for learning programming.
• Today, JVM is preinstalled by most vendors with JNLP and such.
• James Goslings has mentioned an interesting book: Computer Architecture by Patterson & Hennessy 2006
• According to James Sun’s new 8 core * 4 Hardware Threads architecture is like 32 ways SMP machines in terms of performance.
• SwingX is a next generation of Swing
• Netbeans platform Framework is very small; everything in Netbeans is a plug-in just like in Eclipse.
• Try SVG and Java2D mobile for mobile devices! Very cool demos.
• https://glassfish.dev.java.net/ is a free application server – it uses JavaDB (AKA Apache Derby).
• Check out Java blueprints – there are examples an AJAX
• Webstart is nicely integrates with Netbeans
• Check out JavaDB performance, it seems like it’s a lot faster then most people think.: 600 trx/s in memory & 60 trx/s on disk