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The second keynote of the day – this day from Thomas Volmering of SAP. It was announced as one of more practical keynotes with real world examples. How was it really?
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Guillaume Laforge is my next stop in the JAX presentation route. He talks about “Practical Domain-Specific Languages with Groovy”. I’m a huge fan and supporter of DSLs believing them to be the next big thing in truly enhancing developer productivity. Since I also believe that we are just scratching on the surface of what we can achieve with DSLs I was curious about what Guillaume would have to show, especially since Groovy seems to be a pretty natural fit for many types of DSLs.
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Dr. Klaus Alfter präsentiert eine Keynote zum Thema “Wie gehen wir mit der stark wachsenden Zahl von Cores in Systemen um, die sich gar nicht so leicht in Performance-Zuwächse ummünzen lassen”.
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I started my Java career as developer and architect for a project called “Informationssystem Lebensmittelüberwachung” (ILM for short, translated to English as “Information system for food surveillance”). I participated in that project from 1998 to 2000 and the main technology being used were Java Applets in order to implement an extremely feature rich and highly reactive user interface. Since then I somewhat have lost touch with Applets and browser based Java applications so I was very curious to finally get a glimpse of what JavaFX might offer to me during my JAX 2009 visit. So, what did I learn?
This afternoon we are heading of to JAX 2009, the first of two big yearly Java conferences in Germany.
Wow… Larry, you are a genius. Now it’s official. And I think it’s a brilliant move of Oracle.
Not only that they suddenly own Java, they now also have their own IDE (Netbeans), a hardware platform (Solaris) for distributing their high power applications and a lot more (even MySQL, LOL). At the weekend I joked about this, now it’s reality. I’m really curious what this will mean for IBM in the future. And I would love to see the face of the IBM manager responsible for the negotiations between IBM and Sun. He’s probably at some cliff right now and looking down… either out of free will or with his hands bound behind him.
Interesting times, really interesting times 
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