JavaOne and Oracle Develop 2012, Hyderabad, India
Posted on: May 8, 2012
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Like every year this year too, Java One and Oracle Develop 2012 was organised at Hyderabad International Convention Center. This was the first time I attended such a big event. The event was huge success, spanning over two days with over 2000 attendees! This year’s JavaOne event promised a wealth of content not only in terms of technology, but also in terms of tools, resources and best practices. In fact all of the floors of HICC was full of sessions and hand on labs. There were even sessions in the 2nd floor and halls inside Novotel
Day 1
The event began on May 3rd, with JavaOne keynote by Nandini Ramani, VP of Engineering at Oracle Corporation and Anil Gaur, VP, Software Development at Oracle Corporation, both of them talking about Oracle’s commitment to Java and its future. Anil Gaur spoke about the project Avatar which involved HTML5 as well. David Holmes from presented the fork/join parallelism framework who later on gave a session on Project Lambda as well.
The sessions spanned over numerous technologies such as J2EE, J2ME, JavaFX, Java Card, Project Coin, Project Jigsaw, Project Lambda, GlassFish and several topics on Data Parallelism with Fork/Join framework, Persistenve API, Cloud, Java API for JSON, etc and tools such as NetBeans, JDeveloper, Java Mission Control, etc.
In the evening the OTN night was quite entertaining with performances from standup comedian Vipul Goyal, Singer Vasundhara Das and top Indian Idol singer Meiyang Chang.
Day 2
Day 2 began with panel discussion session with Arun Gupta, and other JavaFx experts. David Peake delivered the Oracle Develop keynote and stressed on Oracle Public Cloud. Next was probably the most interesting session of the event. Stephen Chin and Kevin Nelson discussed why HTML5 and JavaFx are not alternatives, it was the best session of JavaOne 2012. Rich web application leveraging the capabilities of both the technology. More can be found at Steve’s blog.
This was followed by yet another interesting session on JSON API on JDK. The final session I attended was Home Automation using JavaEE by Yara Senger and Vinicius Senger from Brazil. Their home automation session using JavaEE was one of the best session in JavaOne 2012. They gave demo on how to control the home equipments using JavaEE and their jHome API.
JUGNagpur leader, Tushar Joshi, also presented session at the JavaOne event on the second day on ‘Creating Rich Client Platform Desktop Applications’.
The second day ended with Pool Side Party, hosted by Arun Gupta famously known as The GlassFish Guy. Not everybody was invited to the GlassFish & Friends party though, as you had to earn your place by asking Arun a question about Java.
JUGNagpur made its presence felt at the event showing the enthusiasm and the passion of the members towards Java. As stated by Arun Gupta on his blog – “The Nagpur JUG had the biggest presence at the party and they are a charged up bunch of folks. I really wish other cities have similar amount of passion and energy as well”. Go JUGNagpur!
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