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Panos Konstantinidis, "JavaOne day three - Interview James Gosling", 08-May-2008, The Java Blog
Thursday May 8, JavaOne
Here are the few highlights from the talks that I attended today:
TS-5428 Java Technology Meets the Real World: Intelligence Everywhere.
This talk is about pervasive computing (a.k.a ubiquitous computing) with products from Sentilla. There was an interesting demo about humidity sensor detecting changes and sending a message to a host. The "motes" run CLDC 1.1 VM (+ proprietary profile for motes). These motes have ports for sensors and actuators and some built-in sensor. There were many interesting suggestions for embedded programming for such small devices (don't allocate in inner loops and there by leading to to GC kick-in, avoid too many static fields, avoid threads whenever possible and so on).
TS-7575 Using Java Technology-Based Class Loaders to design and implementing a Java platform, Micro Edition
The basic idea is to run JavaME applications (developed for different configurations/profiles/subsets of optional packages) on top of JavaSE. The extended JavaSE classes and packages not available in specific profile or optional package set [implemented by a specific phone] should not be made available to JavaME apps targeted. i.e., only the classes available to a specific phone model should be available. If the JavaME app tries to access any other class, it should receive ClassNotFoundException. The speakers explained how to achieve such "containers" by class loader based isolation. The problem is that they seem to solve only the class access. What about extended methods and fields? For example, platform core classes on JavaSE have superset of methods [more methods on the same class available on JavaME - eg. java.util.Hashtable has more methods on JavaSE). The application classes have to bytecode analyzed and instrumented to take care of field/method accces. It seems that their current product that does not address this yet.
PAN-5542 Developing Semantic Web Applications on the Java Platform.
The discussion started with some nice demos. There was a demo with AllegroGraph RDF store, Twine, a demo with using GRDDL and getting RDF triples by a proxy server. i.e., a proxy serves does the GRDDL transformations to get RDF triples from sites [which could be stored/analyzed with RDF stores subsequently] and a demo with FOAF files. Interesting take aways from the discussion include:
- We don't have to wait for SEMANTIC WEB with full fledged reasoners and so on. Instead, add little semantic bits to existing web (say using RDFa, GRDDL etc.) in your current web projects/pages.
- There are many Java tools. There is need to standard Java APIs for triple store access etc. Right now, we have to write for Jena, Sesame etc. It was also felt that APIs will need to wait for more usage scenarios.
- There are tools to expose your existing databases as virtual RDF stores -- for example: D2RQ. Probably, most of the RDF triples could come from existing data.
- Privacy, security of the information is very important. Work needs to be done in this area.
- Natural language processing and getting triples out of it is very hard. You may want to refer to systems like DBpedia.
Wednesday May 7, JavaOne
Today Bill, Chihiro, Jaya and I talked on Blu-ray. The talk was centered around the open source project @ http://hdcookbook.dev.java.net - a library and a set of tools to build Blu-ray discs. If you haven't checked out code/docs, you may want to checkout and play with the code. All you need is a laptop with blu-ray drive and a BD-RE disc. Optionally, for added fun you may want to have a hardware bluray player such as PS3 -- so that you can see the output on your TV rather than on a laptop. Other than the session, we also had a very informal BOF on blu-ray, OCAP etc. during the evening. It is good to meet experts in respective technologies in one place!
Other than the the blu-ray stuff, I did attend other talks/BOF. Just after Blu-ray session, I attended "TS-6000 Improving Application Performance with Monitoring and Profiling Tools" talk. This talk was about OS specific tools, JDK tools and third-party tools for profiling and monitoring. Gregg Sporar and Jaroslav Bachorik (NetBeans Profiler team) presented very well. There were many interesting questions/discussions as well. If you haven't done so already, you may want to download VisualVM. If you want bit more fun doing monitoring/profiling, you may want to check out the sources from http://visualvm.dev.java.net and build it yourself. You can build BTrace VisualVM plugin using the command:
c:\visualvm\plugins>ant build
assuming you have checked out VisualVM sources under "c:\visualvm". If you have already checked out BTrace sources under some other directory, say "c:\btrace", you can use
c:\visualvm\plugins>ant -Dbtrace.home=c:\btrace build
To run VisualVM with all the plugins that you built, you can use the following command:
c:\visualvm\plugins>ant -Dbtrace.home=c:\btrace run
Please let us know what features you'd like to see with BTrace and/or BTrace VisualVM plugin.
I attended and liked the "Class Loader Rearchitected (BOF-6180)" BOF. If you have ever written class loaders, chances are that you have faced mysterious deadlocks or ClassCastException that said "ClassCastException: Foo cannot be cast to Foo" or having to decide between overriding loadClass and findclass, you probably should have attended this talk and gave your opinions/suggestions/ideas 
If I understood properly, I think there was a suggestion to add class loader info. to the ClassCastException (something like class-loader-class-name@identity-HashCode style string?) so that one can quickly see it is a class loader issue. Also, there were many questions on loading classes from jar files. Looks like there will be changes to class loader API and class loading in VM for JDK 7.
Tuesday May 6, JavaOne
JRuby: Why, What, How... Do It Now
This talk is a good introduction to (J)Ruby the language and important applications of (J)Ruby. And many pointers to related (J)Ruby sessions. Nice summary!
JavaScript programming language: The Language Everybody Loves to Hate
great talk by Roberto Chinnici. Nice summary of functional and prototype-based object orientation aspects of JavaScript. You can easily impress your friends will some neat snippets of JavaScript
You may want to continue the fun by reading Doug Crockford's pages, if you have not do already!
At 7.30 PM, we (I and Kannan) talked about BTrace. There were many interesting questions/discussions -- both during and after the BOF! Today (Wed May 7) will be a Blu-ray day -- it starts with TS-5449 Java Technology for Blu-ray and TV: Creating your own Blu-ray Java Discs session. It is about the open source project @ http://hdcookbook.dev.java.net. Meet you all there!
JVM Languages @ JavaOne 2008
In JavaOne 2008, there are many intesting sessions on "other" JVM languages covering both dynamically typed languages (JavaScript, Groovy, JRuby) and statically typed languages (JavaFX, Scala). As usual, there are many sessions covering application aspects -- like using scripting on Glassfish, Grials (Groovy), Rails (JRuby) and so on. But, my interest is mostly on the programming language aspects and JVM implementation issues. Here is a table of sessions covering those:
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Session Type |
Speakers and Company |
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TS-5152 |
Overview of the JavaFX™ Script Programming Language |
Technical Session |
Christopher Oliver, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Tuesday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-5416 |
JRuby: Why, What, How...Do It Now |
Technical Session |
Thomas Enebo, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ; Charles Nutter, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Tuesday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-4794 |
A JavaFX™ Script Programming Language Tutorial |
Technical Session |
James Weaver, LAT |
Tuesday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-4986 |
JavaScript™ Programming Language: The Language Everybody Loves to Hate |
Technical Session |
Roberto Chinnici, Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Tuesday |
Moscone Center - |
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PAN-5435 |
The Script Bowl: A Rapid-Fire Comparison of Scripting Languages |
Panel Session |
Guillaume Laforge, G2One, Inc.; Charles Nutter, Sun Microsystems, Inc. ; Jorge Ortiz, Stanford; Raghavan Srinivas, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Frank Wierzbicki, Sun Microsystems |
Wednesday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-5572 |
Groovy, the Red Pill: Metaprogramming--How to Blow the Mind of Developers on the Java™ Platform |
Technical Session |
Scott Davis, Davisworld Consulting, Inc. |
Wednesday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-5165 |
Programming with Functional Objects in Scala |
Technical Session |
Martin Odersky, EPFL |
Thursday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-5693 |
Writing Your Own JSR-Compliant, Domain-Specific Scripting Language |
Technical Session |
John Colosi, VeriSign, Inc.; David Smith, VeriSign Inc. |
Thursday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-6050 |
Comparing JRuby and Groovy |
Technical Session |
Neal Ford, ThoughtWorks Inc. |
Friday |
Moscone Center - |
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TS-6039 |
Jython - Implementing Dynamic Language Features for the Java™ Platform Ecosystem |
Technical Session |
Jim Baker, Zyasoft; Tobias Ivarsson, Neo Technology |
Friday |
Moscone Center - |
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BTrace BOF @ JavaOne 2008
The details of the BOF is as below. Please visit and let us discuss on dynamic tracing for Java.
| BOF-5552 | Java™ Platform Observability by Bytecode Instrumentation | Kannan Balasubramainan, A. Sundararajan | Tuesday May 06 19:30 - 20:20 | Moscone Center - Esplanade 300 |
Other related talks/BOFs on dynamic tracing/observability include:
| TS-5716 | D-I-Y (Diagnose-It-Yourself): Adaptive Monitoring for Sun Java™ Real-Time System | Technical Session | Carlos Lucasius, Frederic Parain | Tuesday May 06 18:00 - 19:00 | Moscone Center - Hall E 133|
| TS-6000 | Improving Application Performance with Monitoring and Profiling Tools | Technical Session | Jaroslav Bachorik, Gregg Sporar | Wednesday May 07 10:50 - 11:50 | Moscone Center - Gateway 104 |
| LAB-9400 | Exposing the Depth of Your JDK™ Release 7.0 Applications with Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) | Hands-On Lab | Angelo Rajadurai, Raghavan Srinivas, | Wednesday May 07 18:30 - 20:30 | Moscone Center - Hall E 130/131 (LAB) |
| TS-6145 | Using DTrace with Java™ Technology-Based Applications: Bridging the Observability Gap | Technical Session | Jonathan Haslam, Simon Ritter | Thursday May 08 13:30 - 14:30 | Moscone Center - North Mtg-121/122/124/125 |
| BOF-4994 | End-to-End Tracing of Ajax/Java™ Technology-Based Applications, Using Dynamic Tracing (dTrace) | Birds-of-a-Feather Session (BOF) | Amit Hurvitz | Thursday May 08 18:30 - 19:20 | Moscone Center - Gateway 104 |
| BOF-5223 | VisualVM: Integrated and Extensible Troubleshooting Tool for the Java™ Platform | Birds-of-a-Feather Session (BOF) | Luis-Miguel Alventosa, Tomas Hurka | Thursday May 08 19:30 - 20:20 | Moscone Center - Gateway 104 |
| TS-6145 | Using DTrace with Java™ Technology-Based Applications: Bridging the Observability Gap | Technical Session | Jonathan Haslam, Simon Ritter | Friday May 09 14:50 - 15:50 | Moscone Center - North Mtg-121/122/124/125 |
| TS-6000 | Improving Application Performance with Monitoring and Profiling Tools | Technical Session | Jaroslav Bachorik, Gregg Sporar | Friday May 09 16:10 - 17:10 | Moscone Center - Hall E 133 |
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Bluray @ JavaOne 2008
If you want to learn more about Blu-ray disc and what Java has to do with it, you may want to attend the following talks/BOFs @ JavaOne 2008!
| Wednesday, May 07 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | TS-5449 | Java™ Technology for Blu-ray™ and TV: Creating your own Blu-ray Java Discs |
| Wednesday, May 07 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | TS-6464 | Blu-ray Disc Security |
| Wednesday, May 07 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM - 7:20 PM | BOF-5451 | Blu-ray and Java™ Technology Roundtable |
| Thursday May 08 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | TS-5638 | Writing Connected Device Configuration Applications for Resource-Constrained Devices |
| Thursday May 08 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | TS-5888 | Driving Innovation in Packaged Media (Blu-ray) User Experience |
From our group talk (TS-5449), we will be focusing on the open source project @ https://hdcookbook.dev.java.net. Meet you soon @ JavaOne !!