Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...

Java EE 6 and 7 at JUGICE, Iceland, JFokus 2012, and Umeå JUG, Sweden

2012-02-06T16:50:06+00:00

After an easy January month, the conference circuit is starting with a tour of the Nordics.

What ? Java EE 6 hands-on workshop
Date ? Saturday, Feb 11, 2012
Time ? 9am - 1pm
Where ? Reykjavik University, Fönix (m-105)
Register ? jugice-ag2012-eorg.eventbrite.com
Prep work: Download and Install NetBeans 7.0.1 or later ("All" version) from netbeans.org, JDK 6 latest update from oracle.com/javase.
Twitter: @JUGICE

What ? Java EE 6 hands-on workshop (Feb 13, 9am), PaaSing a Java EE Application (Feb 15, 9am), Java EE 7: Developing for the Cloud (Feb 15, 1pm)
Date ? Monday - Wednesday, Feb 13 - 15, 2012
Time ? All Day
Where ? Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center, Sweden
Register ? jfokus.com (almost sold out, register quick)
Prep work: (For hands-on workshop only) Download and Install NetBeans 7.0.1 or later ("All" version) from netbeans.org, JDK 6 latest update from oracle.com/javase.
Website: jfokus.com
Twitter: @jfokus

Check out my reports from JFokus 2011.

What ? Java EE 6 hands-on workshop
Date ? Thursday, Feb 16, 2012
Time ? 6pm
Where ? Umeå University (Triple-Helix), Umeå, Sweden
Register ? Just show up
Prep work: Download and Install NetBeans 7.0.1 or later ("All" version) from netbeans.org, JDK 6 latest update from oracle.com/javase.
Website: umejug.blogspot.com

Where will I meet or run with you ? :)

Java EE 6 pulled crowd at Austin JUG

2012-02-02T01:29:27+00:00

I delivered a NetBeans-driven Java EE 6 session to about 80+ attendees at the Austin JUG yesterday. The session built a typical three-tier Web application using the new/updated technologies in the Java EE 6 platform. I was told this is one of the largest attendance seen at the JUG in recent months. Java EE 6 is indeed a crowd puller ;-)

Rob Ratcliff, the JUG leader, started with a great overview of "Whats new in Java" covering recent JDK update releases, Java FX 2.1 Developer Preview for Mac and Linux, Java EE 6 and WebLogic 12c, NetBeans 7.1 and other stuff. His complete slides are available here. I was fortunate to speak at the JUG because an informal survey of the attendees showed that nobody attends (or plan to attend) a conference in the coming months.

During my session, the highly interactive attendees learned about NetBeans wizard-driven Java EE 6 application development. Here are some of the features that were demonstrated in the talk:

Improvements in Java Persistence API
"web.xml"-free and annotation-driven Servlets
Simplified packaging of EJBs in a WAR file, no-interface and single file definition of EJB
Session preservation across redeploys
Facelets (XHTML/CSS) as templating language for JavaServer Faes to achieve true MVC
Integration of Bean Validation with JPA and JSF
Typesafe dependency injection and Producer/Observer of events using CDI
RESTful resources using JAX-RS

The application was built using NetBeans and deployed on GlassFish. This same application can be easily deployed on WebLogic 12c as well since it is full Java EE 6-compliant as well now. The complete instructions for NetBeans/GlassFish are available here and same instructions for NetBeans/WebLogic will be made available shortly as well.

The session ran almost 45 minutes beyond the scheduled time with most of the attendees staying late and asking questions. The feedback from the attendees was very positive. One of them was even starting a new project using NetBeans + Java EE 6 + GlassFish next week so this talk was directly relevant. Also found another attendee using GlassFish for development and WebLogic for deployment for their Java EE 6 application. Rob used GlassFish for an internal US Military project and has been deployed for more than 2 years with nearly zero maintenance.

Check out some pictures from the JUG visit ...

A tweet like the one below definitely make the quick trip worth it ...

The formal JUG session was followed by a beer-a-thon (lemonade-a-thon for me ;-) at BJs.

Some interesting facts about Austin ...

Michael Dell (chairman and CEO of Dell) lives in Austin, Dell worldwide headquarters are in Austin.
Lance Armstrong is from Austin.
Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, and Brad Pitt has homes in Austin.
Whole Foods chain started and headquartered in Austin. I was lucky enough to squeeze time out for a lunch with a colleague at one of their stores in this less-than-24-hour visit to Austin.
Keep Austin Weird

Download the NetBeans/GlassFish instructions and let us know how you are using Java EE 6.

Next stop is Reykjavik (Iceland), Stockholm (Sweden) and Umeå (Sweden), more on that later ...

Java EE 6 samples in the SDK

2012-01-31T13:00:00+00:00

GlassFish can be downloaded in different forms and shape. Here are some of the main websites that provide a pre-packaged bundle:

GlassFish Open Source Edition: glassfish.org
Oracle GlassFish Server: oracle.com/goto/glassfish
Java EE 6 SDK: oracle.com/javaee
Bundled with NetBeans: netbeans.org/downloads
Bundled with Eclipse: oracle.com/goto/oepe
Bundled with JDK: oracle.com/javase

And then all the deveoper JARs are checked in to Maven and of course you can check out and build the workspace. GlassFish Server Open Source Edition is used for bundling with NetBeans, Eclipse, and JDK. The diagram below shows the main difference between the open source and the commercial edition. The GlassFish For Business blog explains the benefits for commercial edition over open source and this particular blog highlights the difference between the two.

The diagram below highlights the difference between Oracle GlassFish Server and Java EE 6 SDK from the packaging perspective.

The Java EE 6 SDK provides API docs, tutorial and even has a JDK co-bundle. One of the hidden nuggets of the SDK is a comprehensive list of the Java EE 6 samples. The complete list is inlined here:

Sample Application	Description
Enterprise Java Beans
EJB 3.1 WAR-based Application	An EJB application that shows the use of WAR-based packaging , the no-interface Local view, Singleton session beans, and startup/shutdown callbacks.
EJB 3.1 Embeddable API	A very simple EJB Stateless Session Bean with a no-interface view and a POJO Entity that demonstrates EJB 3.1 Embeddable API usage.
EJB 3.1 Automatic Timer	An EJB Stateless Session Bean with a Remote business interface and a POJO Entity that demonstrates EJB 3.1 automatic timer feature.
Servlet 3.0
Servlet 3.0 Annotations Application	A Servlet 3.0 application using annotations for servlet, filter, and content listener.
Servlet 3.0 Asynchronous Application	A Servlet 3.0 application using asychronous API.
Servlet 3.0 Dynamic Registration of Servlets and Filters Application	A Servlet 3.0 application that features the dynamic registration of Servlets and Filters from a ServletContextListener.
Servlet 3.0 Multipart Application	A Servlet 3.0 application that demonstrates multipart (a.k.a. file upload) support.
Servlet 3.0 Absolute Ordering Web Fragments Sample	A Servlet 3.0 application that demonstrates web fragments with absolute ordering.
Access JAR-Bundled JSP Resource Sample	An application that demonstrates how dynamic and static resources bundled inside the `META-INF/resources` directory of a JAR file inside the application's `WEB-INF/lib` directory may be accessed in the same way as if they had been placed in the application's document root.
Servlet 3.0 ServletContainerInitializer Sample	An application that demonstrates how the ServletContainerInitializer feature can be used by libraries to register interest in certain types of applications and take whatever action as the library sees fit.
Programmatic Configuration of HTTP Session Cookies Sample	An application that demonstrates the new programmatic configuration support for session cookies available with Servlet 3.0.
Web Services
Hello JAXWS Application	An that application demonstrates how JAXWS 2.2 can generate artifacts dynamically and no use of wsgen is required when bundling and packing the artifacts.
EJB 3.1 Singleton Web Services Application	An application that demonstrates a singleton EJB web service. It shows how easy it is to annotate a web service with @Singleton and develop clients for it.
Hello-WebServiceRef Application	A JAX-WS Web Services sample that demonstrates the injecton of Web Service Client by the container through the use of @WebServiceRef and configuring WebService features like MTOM, addressing on such injected resource.
Java API for RESTful Web Services
Message Board Application	An application that demonstrates the possibility to use no-interface EJB session beans as RESTful resource classes deployed as a servlet.
Managed Beans Application	An application that demonstrates the possibility to annotate REST resource class with ManagedBean annotation, thus REST resource can be Managed Bean as well.
JSF 2.0
Basic AJAX Application	A series of simple programs intended to illustrate some of the new Ajax features that are contained in JSF 2.0.
Ajax Basic Composite Component Application	A series of simple programs intended to illustrate some of the new Composite Component features that are contained in JSF 2.0.
Ajax Complete Application	A series of simple programs intended to illustrate some of the new Ajax features that are contained in JSF 2.0.
Contexts & Dependency Injection (CDI)
JSF 2.0 Weld Application	An application that demonstrates the use of CDI with JSF 2.0.
Weld Servlet Application	An application that illustrates the injection of Weld into a servlet.
CDI Interceptors Application	An application that illustrates CDI Interceptors to intercept and log method calls.
CDI Events Application	An application that illustrates CDI events using producer and consumer EJBs.
Security
Programmatic Login Application	A web application that demonstrates the programmatic security (login/logout) feature in Servlets 3.0.
HTTP Method Omissions Application	A web application that demonstrates the use of http-method-omission feature of Servlet 3.0 to restrict the set of supported HTTP methods to just GET and POST.
Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6
MailConnector Resource Adapter Sample Application	An application using the mail-connector resource-adapter to retrieve e-mails. Demonstrates how to use new annotations introduced in Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 specification. The mail connector resource adapter is completely built by specifying annotations. No deployment descriptor is used.
Java Persistence API 2.0
JPA Pessimistic Locking Application	An application that demonstrates the use of locking with Java Persistence APIs.
JPA Advanced Mapping Sample	An application that demonstrates the use of Derived Identities and Maps.
JPA Criteria Query Sample	An application that demonstrates the use of Criteria Queries.
Container Features
Custom Valve Application	An application that demonstrates the custom valve facilities available in GlassFish v3.
mod_jk Sample	A sample that demonstrates running GlassFish v3 with Apache httpd.
Session Persistence
clusterjsp	Simple JSP web application to demonstrate session persistence.

The Java EE 6 SDK can be downloaded from oracle.com/javaee. I recently added two CDI samples and will continue to add more. Let us know if you'd like to contribute your Java EE 6 samples here.

And if you find any samples broken then send us feedback or file bugs (use "sample_app" category).

Java EE 6 Hands-on lab at Austin JUG Tomorrow

2012-01-30T17:15:58+00:00

Want to learn how Java EE 6 drastically reduces the amount of code to be written and still improves your productivity for build a Web application ?

Simple, ease-of-use, extensible, light-weight are some of the terms very commonly associated with Java EE 6. In a two hour interactive session at Austin JUG tomorrow, learn how NetBeans, GlassFish, and MySQL provide a killer threesome for building your enterprise and Web applications.

When ? Jan 31, 2012, 6:30 - 9pm
Where ? Li'l Tex Auditorium, Commons Building (#137), University of Texas J. J. Pickle Research Campus

Be there at 6:30pm for the pizza as the session will start promptly at 7pm. And I'd like to share all the goodness with you.

And let me know if you'll be interested in running together on Wednesday morning.

JavaOne Tokyo, Moscow, and India 2012 - Save the Date

2012-01-25T18:15:21+00:00

JavaOne Tokyo (Japan)
Date: April 4-5, 2012
Location: Academy Hills, 49F, Roppongi Tokyo
Website: Japanese, English

JavaOne Moscow (Russia)
Date: April 17-18, 2012
Location: Crocus Expo, International Exhibition Center
Website: TBD

JavaOne Hyderabad (India)
Date: May 3-4, 2012
Location: Hyderabad International Convention Center
Website: TBD

In the meanwhile, you can watch keynotes and interviews from JavaOne San Francisco, download PDFs of technical sessions or watch select sessions and birds-of-feather sessions on parleys.com.

And JavaOne San Francisco 2012 is scheduled for Sep 30 - Oct 4, 2012. Register now before March 30th for a $600 savings.

JPA 2.1 Early Draft Explained - Java EE 7 making progress

2012-01-23T17:00:00+00:00

Java Persistence API 2.1 Early Draft has been available for about a month now. JPA2 was one of the first JSRs to be filed as part of Java EE 7. Several other specifications in Java EE 7 have released early drafts as well (JavaServer Faces 2.0, JAX-RS 2.0, CDI 1.1, more coming as well) and I'll cover them in later blogs.

Here are the main highlights of JPA 2.1:

Support for Stored Procedures: Added support for the invocation of predefined database functions and user-defined database functions to the Java Persistence query language.

There are different variants of EntityManager.createXXXStoredProcedureQuery methods that return a StoredProcedureQuery for executing a stored procedure. Just liked @NamedQuery, there is @NamedStoredProcedureQuery that specifies and names a stored procedure, its parameters, and its result type. This annotation can be specified on an entity or mapped superclass. The name specified in the annotation is then used in EntityManager.createNamedStoredProcedureQuery. The IN, OUT, and INOUT parameters can be set and used to retrieve values passed back from the procedure. For example:

@Entity @NamedStoredProcedureQuery(name="topGiftsStoredProcedure", procedureName="Top10Gifts") public class Product { . . . }

// In your client

StoredProcedreQuery query = EntityManager.createNamedStoredProcedureQuery("topGiftsStoredProcedure"); query.registerStoredProcedureParameter(1, String.class, ParameterMode.INOUT); query.setParameter(1, "top10"); query.registerStoredProcedureParameter(2, Integer.class, ParameterMode.IN); query.setParameter(2, 100); // there are other setParameter methods for defining the temporal type of a parameter . . . query.execute(); String response = query.getOutputParameterValue(1);

The section 3.8.6 provide more details.
Bul update/delete using Criteria: Added CriteriaUpdate, CriteriaDelete, CommonAbstractQuery interfaces, refactored AbstractQuery interface.

Here is a sample for CriteriaUpdate from section 6.5.15:

CriteriaUpdate<Customer> q = cb.createCriteriaUpdate(Customer.class); Root<Customer> c = q.from(Customer.class); q.set(c.get(Customer_.status), "outstanding") .where(cb.lt(c.get(Customer_.balance), 10000));

with the equivalent JPQL of:

UPDATE Customer c SET c.status = 'outstanding' WHERE c.balance < 10000

This query can then be executed as:

@PersistenceContext EntityManager em; Query query = em.createQuery(q); query.executeUpdate();

Here is a sample for CriteriaDelete from section 6.5.15:

CriteriaDelete<Customer> q = cb.createCriteriaDelete(Customer.class); Root<Customer> c = q.from(Customer.class); q.where(cb.equal(c.get(Customer_.status), "inactive"), cb.isEmpty(c.get(Customer_.orders)));

with the equivalent JPQL of:

DELETE FROM Customer c WHERE c.status = 'inactive' AND c.orders IS EMPTY

This query can then be executed in similar way as earlier:

@PersistenceContext EntityManager em; Query query = em.createQuery(q); query.executeUpdate();
New reserved keywords: Added the following to Java Persistence query language reserved identifiers: FUNCTION, ON, TREAT.

Pre-defined and user-defined functions using FUNCTION: JPQL provide several in-built functions which may be used in the SELECT, WHERE or HAVING clause of a query such as CONCAT, SUBSTRING, TRIM, LENGTH, ABS, SQRT, and CURRENT_DATE. The section 4.6.17.3 define invocation of predefined and user-defined database functions using the FUNCTION operator. The FUNCTION is used to invoke predefined database functions or user-defined database functions. An example from the section is:

SELECT c FROM Customer c WHERE FUNCTION(‘hasGoodCredit’, c.balance, c.creditLimit)
Downcasting using TREAT: TREAT is supported for downcasting within path expressions in the FROM and WHERE clauses. Use of the TREAT operator allows access to subclass-specific state. An example from section 4.4.9 is:
SELECT b.name, b.ISBN FROM Order o JOIN TREAT(o.product AS Book) b

In this example, the join is performed between Order and Product but name and ISBN are attributes of the Book class which is a subclass of the Product class. Another example is:

SELECT e FROM Employee e WHERE TREAT(e AS Exempt).vacationDays > 10 OR TREAT(e AS Contractor).hours > 100

Here again vacationDays are attributes for Exempt employees only and hours only for Contractor.
Join condition using ON: The ON clause in SQL is used to specify the relationship between the tables. It is different from the WHERE clause which specifies the criteria for the rows to be picked. An example from the section 4.4.5.2 shows the JPQL as:

SELECT s.name, COUNT(p) FROM Suppliers s LEFT JOIN s.products p ON p.status = 'inStock' GROUP BY s.name

The mapped SQL for this will be:

SELECT s.name, COUNT(p.id) FROM Suppliers s LEFT JOIN Products p ON s.id = p.supplierId AND p.status = 'inStock' GROUP BY s.name

The s.id = p.supplierId condition is generated becase of the LEFT JOIN. The additional JOIN condition of p.status = 'inStock' is also added to the generated SQL because of the ON clause in the JPQL. The result of this query will include all suppliers (with possibly NULL values). This is different from the query below:
SELECT s.name, COUNT(p) FROM Suppliers s LEFT JOIN s.products p WHERE p.status = 'inStock' GROUP BY s.name

The result of this query will not include suppliers that have no products in stock.

Additional methods are also added to Fetch, Join, CollectionJoin, SetJoin, ListJoin, and MapJoin interfaces to support the ON clause.

Entity listeners using CDI: Entity Listeners allow to handle cross-cutting lifecycle events in a non-persistent listener class. In JPA 2.1, entity listeners will support dependency injection through CDI. The usual lifecycle callback methods of @PrePersist, @PostPersist, @PreUpdate, and @PreRemove can be used for entities. The entity listeners can also be annotated with @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy for their own lifecycle. The section 3.5.1 provides more details on this.

Read more details on jsr338-experts alias archive and users@jpa-spec.
Synchronization of persistence contexts: In JPA 2, the persistence context is synchronized with the underlying resource manager. Any updates made to the persistence context are propagated to the resource manager. JPA 2.1 introduces the concept of unsynchronized persistence contenxt. Here is how you can create a container-managed unsynchronized persistence context:

@PersistenceContext(synchronization=SynchronizationType.UNSYNCHRONIZED) EntityManager em;

The section 7.6.1 provide more details.
Several clarifications in text and javadocs

The Appendix in the specification provide a comprehensive list of changes in this version of the specification. And there are change bars through out as well allowing you to see what has changed since JPA 2.

Here are some final set of references for you:

And of course, it'll all be delivered as part of GlassFish 4.0!

Java EE 6 using WebLogic 12c, NetBeans, and MySQL (Screencast #39)

2012-01-04T03:00:00+00:00

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is now available and comes with a zip installer.

This video shows how to develop and deploy a Java EE 6 application on WebLogic 12c using NetBeans. It builds a simple application using Java Persistence API 2.0, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, Servlets 3.0, Java API for RESTful Web Services 1.1, Java Server Faces 2.0, and Contexts & Dependency Injection 1.0. The video also explains how to configure MySQL database in NetBeans and use it for accessing the database tables in the Java EE 6 applications.

Enjoy!

You can also check out the sample code built in this application from here.

What kind of Java EE 6 applications are you deploying on WebLogic ?

What else would you like to see on this blog relating to Java EE 6 and WebLogic ?

Follow the complete series here.

WebLogic 12c and Coherence: OTN Virtual Developer Day in Jan/Feb 2012

2011-12-21T18:42:47+00:00

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is now available for about 2 weeks. Do you know it comes with an easy-to-use zip installer ? Have you downloaded and tried it ?

An OTN Virtual Developer Day is coming to talk about the latest and greatest features in WebLogic Server 12c. This is your chance to immerse yourself in learning how WebLogic Server 12c supportes the Java EE 6 standards how Maven support is enhanced and made much more feature-rich, extensive integration with NetBeans and Eclipse will be practised using hands-on lab sessions, and there will be opportunity to learn about Coherence as well.

The complete agenda and session abstract is available here.

When ?
Americas, Jan 24, 2012
Europe/Russia: Feb 7th, 2012
Asia Pacific (English): Feb 9, 2012
Asia Pacific (Chinese): Feb 21, 2012

Just register online here!

Also check out the following useful links:

Replay from online launch event + developer deep dive
WebLogic Blog
Online Documentation
WebLogic Server Data Sheet

Also check out the social presence of WebLogic by clicking on the image below:

All the information about WebLogic Server is available from oracle.com/weblogic!

JavaOne Latin America 2011: A Great combination of Geeky + Fun

2011-12-13T03:00:00+00:00

JavaOne Latin America concluded last week. The Java EE team delivered the technical keynote, several sessions, a hands-on lab, dinner with the Java EE hornblowers, attended good booth traffic, and had numerous hallway conversations.

The keynote on the first day sharing the overall stratategy for Java SE, Java EE, Java ME, and Java FX. The technical keynotes on the second day provided more details on each of these technologies with extensive product demonstrations for each one of them. Check out Geertjan's blog explaining an end-to-end demonstration using Java FX -> Java EE -> GlassFish -> MySQL.

The community keynote on the third day was organized by Bruno Souza and Fabiane Nardon. There were very little slides and mostly demos and interaction with other community folks. A complete replay of the community keynote is available here. I was fortunate to be included as part of this fun keynote. Vinicius demonstrated how jHome (a Duke's Choice Award winner) can be used to open up a website driven by my heart beat. Watch the video below (in Portuguese):

jHome certainly has very far-reaching implications. Imagine a doctor being able to monitor your heartbeat remotely or use it for beer mashing ;) Their next stop is JFokus, Feb 14, 2012.

The Brazilian chapter of jDuchess was also launched by Yara, Ana Abrantes, and Loiane Groner as part of the keynote. Follow @jDuchessBR or like facebook.com/jDuchessBR for more details.

Another fun part when the Odwalla bars left over from the Geek Bike Ride were distributed during the keynote, proud to be an Odwalla ambassador!

An earlier blog on the Geek Bike Ride provide more details about a fun bike ride with several local Java geeks. The Java Spotlight Podcast episode #60 also covers an interview with Yara and Vinicius Senger on Global Code's 10th anniversary.

There is definitely a strong interest for Java EE in Latin America as all the sessions were completely packed. The JAX-RS 2.0 session was even moved to a much bigger room. The complete set of Java EE slides presented by Oracle speakers are given below:

Adam, John, and I also delivered a hands-on lab on "Develop, Deploy, and Monitor a Java EE 6 Application with Clustered GlassFish 3.1". The packed room with about 40 attendees learned:

Walk through and deploy a typical Java EE 6 application using NetBeans and GlassFish.
Create a two-instance GlassFish cluster and front end with a Web server and a load balancer.
Demonstrate session replication when one of the instances fails.
Use the extensible monitoring infrastructure to generate application-specific monitoring data.

Most of the attendees were able to complete the lab. The complete lab instructions are available.

Also check out a video with Fabiane Nardon talking about zero downtime with Java EE and amazing performance using GlassFish:

Check out some pictures from the last day ...

And check out the complete album ...

More pictures from Loiane Groner and Marcleo Quinta.

And finally leaving you with some tweets seen on #javaonebrasil ...

Best java conference in Brazil!
JavaOne Latin America - Brazil is the most cool conference I ever attended! Great job Oracle, and thanks for everything!
#javaonebrasil foi MARAVILHOSO! A comunidade brasileira fechou o evento com chave de ouro! #fb (translated to " #javaonebrasil was WONDERFUL! The Brazilian community closed the event with a golden key! # fb"

Thank you Latin America for yet another wonderful JavaOne!

GlassFish Partner Showcase: Logicstyle talking about Java EE 6 and future - in English and Portuguese

2011-12-12T14:20:01+00:00

At the recently concluded JavaOne Latin America, I had the opportunity to talk with Juliano Viana from Logicstyle about Java EE 6 and their love for GlassFish. Watch the brief interview (in English) below:

And Loiane Groner graciously helped us record the same video in Portuguese as well:

Enjoy!

Get Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c - Using Zip Installer (TOTD #174)

2011-12-10T03:00:00+00:00

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is now available!

After you download the zip installer, here is how you get started on Mac OSX (the commands are highlighted in bold) ...

mkdir 12c
cd 12c
unzip ~/Downloads/wls1211_dev.zip
   creating: modules/
   creating: modules/endorsed/
   creating: modules/features/
. . .
inflating: wlserver/server/bin/setWLSEnv.sh
inflating: wlserver/server/bin/startNodeManager.sh
inflating: wlserver/server/lib/unix/nodemanager.sh
export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home
export USER_MEM_ARGS="-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"
export MW_HOME=`pwd`
./configure.sh
**************************************************
WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.1.0) Zip Configuration

MW_HOME:   /Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c
JAVA_HOME: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home
**************************************************

Please wait while      771 jars are unpacked ...
...Unpacking done                                                                            0 to go

CLASSPATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/lib/tools.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/lib/weblogic_sp.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/lib/weblogic.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/features/weblogic.server.modules_12.1.1.0.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/lib/webservices.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/lib/ant-all.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/net.sf.antcontrib_1.1.0.0_1-0b2/lib/ant-contrib.jar:

PATH=/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/bin:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/jre/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Developer/usr/bin

Your environment has been set.
Configuring WLS...

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
. $MW_HOME/wlserver/server/bin/setWLSEnv.sh
CLASSPATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/lib/tools.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/lib/weblogic_sp.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/lib/weblogic.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/features/weblogic.server.modules_12.1.1.0.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/lib/webservices.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/lib/ant-all.jar:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/net.sf.antcontrib_1.1.0.0_1-0b2/lib/ant-contrib.jar:

PATH=/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/wlserver/server/bin:/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/12c/modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/jre/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Developer/usr/bin

Your environment has been set.
cd ..
mkdir mydomain
cd mydomain
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java $JAVA_OPTIONS -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m weblogic.Server
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:22 PM PST> <Info> <Security> <BEA-090905> <Disabling CryptoJ JCE Provider self-integrity check for better startup performance. To enable this check, specify -Dweblogic.security.allowCryptoJDefaultJCEVerification=true>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:22 PM PST> <Info> <Security> <BEA-090906> <Changing the default Random Number Generator in RSA CryptoJ from ECDRBG to FIPS186PRNG. To disable this change, specify -Dweblogic.security.allowCryptoJDefaultPRNG=true>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:23 PM PST> <Info> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000377> <Starting WebLogic Server with Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM Version 20.1-b02-383 from Apple Inc..>

/Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/mydomain/config not found

No config.xml was found.
Would you like the server to create a default configuration and boot? (y/n): y
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:25 PM PST> <Info> <Management> <BEA-140013> </Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/mydomain/config not found>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:26 PM PST> <Info> <Security> <BEA-090065> <Getting boot identity from user.>
Enter username to boot WebLogic server:admin
Enter password to boot WebLogic server: <Enter the password as "admin007" - MUST have minimum of 8 characters and an alphabet and a numeral>
For confirmation, please re-enter password required to boot WebLogic server:
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:33 PM PST> <Info> <Management> <BEA-141254> <Generating new domain directory in /Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/mydomain.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:40 PM PST> <Info> <Management> <BEA-141255> <Domain generation completed in 7,234 milliseconds.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:40 PM PST> <Info> <Management> <BEA-141107> <Version: WebLogic Server 12.1.1.0 Wed Dec 7 08:40:57 PST 2011 1445491 >
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:42 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STARTING.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:42 PM PST> <Info> <WorkManager> <BEA-002900> <Initializing self-tuning thread pool.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:42 PM PST> <Notice> <Log Management> <BEA-170019> <The server log file /Users/arungup/tools/weblogic/mydomain/servers/myserver/logs/myserver.log is opened. All server side log events will be written to this file.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:45 PM PST> <Notice> <Security> <BEA-090082> <Security initializing using security realm myrealm.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:46 PM PST> <Warning> <Store> <BEA-280109> <Unable to load the native wlfileio library for the persistent file store "_WLS_myserver". The store will use buffered I/O. The store is still operating in a transactionally safe synchronous mode. See store open log messages for the requested and final write policies.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:49 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STANDBY.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:49 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to STARTING.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:50 PM PST> <Notice> <Log Management> <BEA-170027> <The server has successfully established a connection with the Domain level Diagnostic Service.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:50 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to ADMIN.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to RESUMING.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Error> <Server> <BEA-002606> <The server is unable to create a server socket for listening on channel "Default[2]". The address fe80:0:0:0:2acf:daff:fee4:f11a%0 might be incorrect or another process is using port 7001: java.net.BindException: Can't assign requested address>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Error> <Server> <BEA-002606> <The server is unable to create a server socket for listening on channel "Default[1]". The address fe80:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 might be incorrect or another process is using port 7001: java.net.BindException: Can't assign requested address>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <Server> <BEA-002613> <Channel "Default" is now listening on 192.168.1.13:7001 for protocols iiop, t3, ldap, snmp, http.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <Server> <BEA-002613> <Channel "Default[3]" is now listening on 127.0.0.1:7001 for protocols iiop, t3, ldap, snmp, http.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <Server> <BEA-002613> <Channel "Default[4]" is now listening on 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:7001 for protocols iiop, t3, ldap, snmp, http.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000331> <Started the WebLogic Server Administration Server "myserver" for domain "mydomain" running in development mode.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Warning> <Server> <BEA-002611> <The hostname "localhost", maps to multiple IP addresses: 127.0.0.1, 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1, fe80:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%1.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to RUNNING.>
<Dec 9, 2011 3:35:51 PM PST> <Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000360> <The server started in RUNNING mode.>

And the server is now finally started!

The administration console is accessible at localhost:7001/console and looks like:

And logging in with the username "admin" and password "admin007" shows the following page:

Are you with me so far ?

Follow the complete series here.

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c - Now Available, With Zip Installer! (TOTD #173)

2011-12-09T17:43:17+00:00

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is now available for download!

What are the main themes of this new release ?

Java EE 6 and Developer Productivity
Simplified Deployment and Management with Virtualization
Integrated Traffic Management
Enhanced Availability and Disaster Recovery
Much Higher Performance
Seamless Upgrade

Go get your zip installer now ...

Get a quick preview of the key features in this interview with Mike Lehmann at Oracle Open World/JavaOne Latin America 2011:

Also check out the following useful links:

Replay from online launch event + developer deep dive
Online Documentation
WebLogic Server Data Sheet

All the information is available from oracle.com/weblogic!

JavaOne Latin America 2011 Pictures

2011-12-08T11:12:55+00:00

More coming later ...

In the mean while, check out the album ...

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Preview at Oracle Open World/JavaOne Latin America 2011 + Launch Playback

2011-12-07T14:28:41+00:00

Get a quick preview of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c from Mike Lehmann (Sr Director, Product Management, Fusion Middleware at Oracle) at Oracle Open World/JavaOne Latin America 2011.

What are the main themes of this new release ?

Java EE 6 and Developer Productivity
Simplified Deployment and Management with Virtualization
Integrated Traffic Management
Enhanced Availability and Disaster Recovery
Much Higher Performance
Seamless Upgrade

And if you want to learn more about WebLogic 12c then a replay of the online launch event from last week is now available here. It covers 1-hour executive overview by Hasan Rizvi and 1-hour developer deep dive, with several demos, by Will Lyons.

Bits coming soon ...

Java Geek Bike Ride, Sao Paulo - JavaOne Latin America 2011

2011-12-05T09:02:40+00:00

The City of Sao Paulo marks one lane exclusively for bikers (the pedal ones ;) on Sundays and national holidays. The 45 km route through the city is served by tons of volunteers providing directions and safety with the traffic in other lanes. The lanes are well marked and is a way to make to promote healthy lifestyle in the city. The ride is mostly flat with one small hill towards the end. Check out CicloFaixa for more details.

Fabiane Nardon and gang used this opportunity to arrange a Geek Bike Ride for the local community to meet JavaOne speakers in an informal setting. Our bike angels Fabiane, Claudio, and Fernando did a fabulous job of keeping the riders together. Claudio not only completed 4000 km on his bike yesterday but is also one of the best know agile speakers in Brazil. I had the opportunity to work with Fernando on the release of the largest local guide deployment in Brazil and he is a sharp guy. And everybody knows Fabiane, a Java Champion, Duke Choice Award winner, entrepreneur, java.net Tools Community Manager, and a lot more.

There were no technology discussions, just pure fun, laughter, and a great workout!

I shared a bunch of Odwalla bars with all the bikers and they were well appreciated. Check out the picture below for the riders getting powered by an Odwalla bar before the ride:

Check out the bike route:

And some pictures ...

Check out lot more pictures at:

Thank you bike angels Fabiane, Claudio, and Fernando for guiding us through the wonderful bike ride. JavaOne San Francisco 2011 had its first community run and now this fun bike ride. Lets see where it goes next :-)

Now, JavaOne Latin America starts tomorrow. There is tons of exciting content there and looking forward to lots of nerdgasms there!

Java EE 7: Key features, Specifications, Projects, Mailing List Archives, ...

2011-12-03T12:07:17+00:00

An update and summary of the key features of different specifications in the Java EE 7 platform ...

Java EE 7 (JSR 342)

The main theme is to easily run applications on private or public clouds
The platform will define application metadata descriptor to describe PaaS execution environment such as multi-tenancy, resources sharing, quality-of-service, and dependencies between applications
Embrace latest standards like HTML5, WebSocket, JSON and have a standards-based API for each one of them
Remove inconsistencies between Managed Beans, EJB, Servlets, JSF, CDI, and JAX-RS
Possible inclusion of JAX-RS 2.0 in the Web Profile, revised JMS 2.0 API
Technology Refresh for several existing technologies (more on this below) and possible inclusion of Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR 236) and JCache (JSR 107)
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Linda DeMichiel, Bill Shannon (Oracle)
Project: javaee-spec.java.net
Mailing Lists Archive: jsr342-expert@javaee-spec.java.net, users@javaee-spec.java.net

JPA 2.1 (JSR 338)

Support for multi-tenancy
Support for stored procedures and vendor function
Update and Delete Critieria queries
Support for schema generation
Persistence Context synchronization
CDI injection into listeners
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Linda DeMichiel (Oracle)
Project: jpa-spec.java.net
Mailing Lists Archive: jsr338-experts@jpa-spec.java.net, users@jpa-sepc.java.net.

JAX-RS 2.0 (JSR 339)

Client API - low level using builder pattern and possibly a higher level on top of that
Hypermedia - easily create and process links associated with resources
Form or Query parameter validation using Bean Validation
Closer integration with @Inject, etc
Server-side asynchronous request processing
Server-side content negotiation using "qs"
Status

Approved by the JCP, Early Draft Available, Draft Javadocs
Spec lead: Santiago Pericas-Geersten, Marek Potociar (Oracle)
Project: jaxrs-spec.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr339-experts@jax-rs-spec.java.net, users@jax-rs-spec.java.net

Servlets 3.1 (JSR 340)

Optimize the PaaS model for Web applications
Multi tenancy for security, session, resources, etc.
Asynchronous IO based on NIO2
Simplfiied asynchronous Servlets
Utilize Java EE concurrency utilities
Enable support for WebSockets
Status:

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Shing-Wai Chan, Rajiv Mordani (Oracle)
Project: servlet-spec.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr340-experts@servlet-spec.java.net, users@servlet-spec.java.net

Expression Language 3.0 (JSR 341)

Separate ELContext into parsing and evaluation contexts
Customizable EL coercion rules
Reference static methods and members directly in EL expressions
Adding operators like equality, string concatenation, and sizeof etc.
Integration with CDI such as generating events before/during/after the expressions are evaluated
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Kin-man Chung (Oracle)
Project: el-spec.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr-341-experts@el-spec.java.net, users@el-spec.java.net

Java Message Server 2.0 (JSR 343)

Ease of development - changes to the JMS programming model to make the application development simpler and easier
Remove/Clarify ambiguities in the existing specification
Integration with CDI
Clarification of the relationship between JMS and other Java EE specs
A new mandatory API to allow any JMS provider to be integrated with any Java EE container
Multi-tenancy and other cloud-related features from the platform
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Nigel Deakin (Oracle)
Project: jms-spec.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr-343-experts@jms-spec.java.net, users@jms-spec.java.net

Java Server Faces 2.2 (JSR 344)

Ease of Development - making configuration options dynamic, make cc:interface in composite components optional, shorthand URLs for Facelet tag libraries, integration with CDI, OSGi support for JSF artifacts
Support implementation of Portlet Bridge 2.0 (JSR 329)
Support for HTML5 features like HTML5 Forms, Metadata, Heading and Section content model
Flow management, Listener for page navigation events, and new components like FileUpload and BackButton
Status

Approved by the JCP, Early Draft Available
Spec lead: Ed Burns (Oracle)
Project: javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr344-experts@javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net, users@javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net

EJB 3.2 (JSR 345)

Enhancements to the EJB architecture to enable PaaS, such as multi-tenancy
Factorization of container-managed transactions to use outside EJB
Further use of annotations
Alilgnment and integration with other specifications in the platform
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Marina Vatkina (Oracle)
Project: ejb-spec.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr-345-experts@ejb-spec.java.net, users@ejb-spec.java.net

CDI 1.1 (JSR 346, more details)

Global ordering of interceptors and decorators
API for managing built-in contexts
Embedded mode to allow startup outside Java EE container
Declarative control over which packages/beans are scanned in an archive
Injection for static members such as loggers
Send Servlet events as CDI event
Status

Approved by the JCP, Early Draft Available
Spec lead: Pete Muir (RedHat)
Project: CDI 1.1 Development
Mailing List Archive: cdi-dev, @jsr346

Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR 349)

Integration with other Java EE specs
- JAX-RS: Validate parameters and return values on HTTP calls
- JAXB: Convert constraints into XML schema descriptor
Method level validation
Apply constraints on group collection
Extend the model to support AND and OR style composition
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Emmanuel Bernard (RedHat)
Project: beanvalidation.org
Mailing List Archive: beanvalidation-dev

JCache (JSR 107)

API and semantics for temporary, in-memory caching of Java objects, including object creation, shared access, spooling, invalidation, and consistency across JVMs
Package: javax.cache
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Yannis Cosmadopoulos, Cameron Purdy (Oracle) and Gregory Luck (Software AG)
Project page: jsr107spec
Mailing List Archive: jsr107@googlegroups.com

State Management (JSR 350)

API that can be used by applications and Java EE containers to offload the responsibility of statement management into third party providers with different QoS characteristics
Java SE-based callers can access the state data by querying the state providers
Providers with different QoS can be added and API callers can query to meet their criteria
Package: javax.state and javax.state.provider
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Mitch Upton (Oracle)
Project page: java-state-management.java.net
Mailing List Archive: jsr-350-experts@java-state-management.java.net, jsr-350-users@java-state-management.java.net

Batch Application for the Java Platform (JSR 352)

Programming model for batch applications and a runtime for scheduling and executing jobs
Defines Batch Job, Batch Job Step, Batch Application, Batch Executor, and Batch Job Manager for the standard programming model
Package: javax.batch
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Chris Vignola (IBM)
Project page: jbatch.java.net
Mailing List Archive: issues@jbatch.java.net

Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR 236)

Provides a clean, simple, independent API by building on JSR 166, making it appropriate for use within any Java EE contianer.
Package: javax.util.concurrent
Status

Approved by the JCP
Spec lead: Anthony Lai, Naresh Revanuru (Oracle)
Project page:
Mailing List Archive:

Java API for JSON Processing (JSR 353)

Produce and consume JSON text in a streaming fashion(similar to StAX API for XML)
Build a Java object model for JSON text using API classes(similar to DOM API for XML)
Status

Under JCP Review
Spec lead: Jitendra Kotamraju
Project Page: json-processing-spec
Mailing List Archive: jsr353-experts@json-processing-spec.java.net, users@json-processing-spec.java.net

The Expert Groups for most of the JSRs have already been formed but you can still participate by joining the publicly visible aliases and reviewing the drafts. All the JSRs following JCP 2.8 are run more transparently and some of the highlights on that front are:

Names of the EG members are publicly visible
EG business reported on publicly readable alias
Schedule is public, current and updated regularly
Public can read/write to a wiki to discuss the status so far
Discussion board on jcp.org
Public read-only issue tracker

And you know all of this will be integrated in GlassFish - the Reference Implementation for Java EE 7!

Check out some early work at glassfish.org/javaone2011.

JavaOne Latin America 2011: Keynotes, Sessions, Hands-on Lab, Geek Bike Ride, etc.

2011-11-30T04:00:00+00:00

After a very successful JavaOne San Francisco, the first JavaOne on the road for 2011 is heading to Latin America next week. There are 59 sessions delivered by several rock star speakers and with 60% sessions delivered by the local community. There are strategy, technical and community keynotes. The community keynote on Thursday will particularly be lot of fun with appearances from Java Champions, JUG leaders, jHome, and several others. Also check out the Exhibitor Floor Plan and don't forget to Register!

The complete session schedule gives an overview for the list of technical sessions and hands-on lab. There are several Java EE, GlassFish, and WebLogic sessions and are highlighted below:

Tuesday, Dec 6

Oracle WebLogic Server
XML-Free Programming: Java Server and Client Development without <>
Java EE Application in Production: Tips and Tricks to achieve zero downtime
Web Applications and Wicket Scala on GlassFish and Java EE 6
REST and Java best practices, issues and solutions for the Enterprise
Building a RESTful Web Application with JAX-RS and Ext JS 4

Wednesday, Dec 7

Oracle GlassFish Server in the Virtual World
JAX-RS 2.0: What's in JSR 339 ?
JSF 343: What's coming in Java Message Service 2.0 ?
The Great News of JSF 2.0!

Thursday, Dec 8

Servlet 3.1 Update
Develop, Deploy, and Monitor a Java EE 6 Application with Clustered GlassFish 3.1
Migrating from EJB/SOAP to REST with JAX-RS: The Case of the Central Bank of Brazil
GlassFish REST Administration Back End: An Insider look at a real REST Application
Scripting and Agile Java EE Applications with Jython

And this is Brazil so a fun element is important. There are the usual Caiprihinas, Churrascaria, late night social dinners, community engagement, and multiple other fun activities. Fabiane Nardon and SOUJava gang are also organizing a Geek Bike Ride on the Sunday (Dec 4th) before JavaOne. The 20k ride (map) starts at 7am and goes through the streets of Sao Paulo. This is an opportunity to meet some of the JavaOne speakers and attendees outside the conference. They've even designed a t-shirt and 32 geeks have signed up so far.

I'm glad my discussion with Fabiane during FISL early this year for arranging this bike ride is finally taking shape! I'm definitely looking forward to it and will be bringing nice fruity Odwalla bars for all the riders. Be there to ride with me and many others :-)

Stay updated by following @oracledobrasil and @javaoneconf.

I'll be there, will you ?

Don't wait and register now!

And in case you are interested in reading about the experience from last year ... it was lot of fun! Just check out a collage of pictures yourself ...

And the complete album at:

NetBeans 7.1 RC1 now available - JavaFX 2, Enhanced Java Editor, Improved JavaEE, WebLogic 12 support

2011-11-29T04:00:00+00:00

NetBeans 7.1 RC1 is now available!

What's new in NetBeans 7.1 ?

Support for JavaFX 2

Full compile/debug/profile development cycle
Many editor enhancements
Deployment tools
Customized UI controls using CSS3

Enhanced Java editor

Upgrade projects completely to JDK 7
Import statement organizer
Rectangular block selection
Getters/Setters included in refactoring

Java EE

50+ CDI improvements
RichFaces4 and ICEFaces2 component libraries
EJB Timer creation wizard
Code completion for table, column, and PU names

CSS3, GUI Builder, Git, Maven3, and several other features listed at New and Noteworthy

Download and give us your feedback using NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing by Dec 7th.

Check out the latest tutorials.

To me the best part was creating a Java EE 6 application, deploying on GlassFish, and then re-deploying the same application by changing the target to Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (internal build). And now see the same application deployed to both the servers:

Don't miss the Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Launch Event on Dec 1.

You can provide additional feedback about NetBeans on mailing lists and forums, file reports, and contact us via Twitter. The final release of NetBeans IDE 7.1 is planned for December.

Build Open JDK 7 on Mac OSX (TOTD #172)

2011-11-28T11:41:35+00:00

The complete requirements, pre-requisites, and steps to build OpenJDK 7 port on Mac OSX are described here. The steps are very clearly explained and here are the exact ones I followed on my MacBook Pro 10.7.2:

Confirm the version of pre-installed Java as:

> java -version
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03-383-11A511c)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.1-b02-383, mixed mode)

Download and install Mercurial from mercurial.berkwood.com (zip bundle for 10.7 is here). It gets installed in the /usr/local/bin directory.
Get the source code as (commands highlighted in bold):

hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port
destination directory: macosx-port
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 437 changesets with 364 changes to 33 files
updating to branch default
31 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
cd macosx-port
chmod 7555 get_source.sh
./get_source.sh
# Repos: corba jaxp jaxws langtools jdk hotspot
Starting on corba
Starting on jaxp
Starting on jaxws
Starting on langtools
Starting on jdk
Starting on hotspot
# hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port/corba corba
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 396 changesets with 3275 changes to 1379 files

. . .

# exit code 0
# cd ./corba && hg pull -u
pulling from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port/corba
searching for changes
no changes found
# exit code 0
# cd ./jaxp && hg pull -u
pulling from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port/jaxp
searching for changes
no changes found
# exit code 0
Install Xcode from the App Store. Include /Developer/usr/bin in PATH.

Note: JDK 1.6.0_26 ame pre-installed on my laptop and I installed Xode after that. The compilation went fine and there was no need to re-install the Java for Mac OS X as mentioned in the original steps.

Build the code as:

make ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true SA_APPLE_BOOT_JAVA=true
ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA=true ALT_BOOTDIR=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v
1.6` HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`

The final output is shown as:

>>>Finished making images @ Sat Nov 19 00:59:04 WET 2011 ...
>>>Finished making images @ Sat Nov 19 00:59:04 WET 2011 ...
########################################################################
##### Leaving jdk for target(s) sanity all docs images #####
########################################################################
##### Build time 00:17:42 jdk for target(s) sanity all docs images #####
########################################################################

## Build times ##########
Target all_product_build
Start 2011-11-19 00:32:40
End 2011-11-19 00:59:04
00:01:46 corba
00:04:07 hotspot
00:00:51 jaxp
00:01:21 jaxws
00:17:42 jdk
00:00:37 langtools
00:26:24 TOTAL
#########################

Change the directory and verify the version:

>cd build/macosx-universal/j2sdk-image/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin
>./java -version
openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-arungup_2011_11_19_00_32-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

Now go fix some bugs, file new bugs, or discuss at the macosx-port-dev mailing list.

Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Launch Event - Dec 1, 2011, 10am PT

2011-11-23T03:00:00+00:00

Calling all IT managers, architects, and developers, to find out how the new release of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is:

Designed to help you seamlessly move into the public or private cloud with an open, standards-based platform
Built to drive higher value for your current infrastructure and significantly reduce development time and cost
Optimized to run your solutions for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE); Oracle Fusion Middleware; and Oracle Fusion
Enhanced with transformational platforms and technologies such as Java EE 6, Oracle’s Active GridLink for RAC, Oracle Traffic Director, and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

When ? Dec 1, 2011, 10am - 12pm PT
Where ? Register online!

Here are some other links for you to follow:

Almost ready to unwrap the ribbons, pop open the cork, at the start line ... or whatever fits your analogy :-)

And in case you are wondering ... here is a snapshot of WebLogic 12c administration console:

Devoxx 2011 Trip Report + Pictures

2011-11-22T03:00:00+00:00

3350 attendees from 40 countries lived in "paradise" for 5 days last week. This paradise had 170+ rock star speakers delivering 200+ hours of technical content in about 150 sessions. And it truly was a paradise with a clear differentiation from other Java conferences.

There were several Oracle speakers at the paradise covering the entire gamut of Java platform. I delivered a Java EE 6 hands-on lab (new content), showcased Java EE 7 and GlassFish 4.0 early work at the keynote, and participated in a panel to talk about Contexts and Dependency Injection.

The demo in the keynote showed how to deploy a Java EE application in a managed environment. The demo showed a Conference Planner application that can be used by conference organizers to display sessions, tracks, and speaker information. This same application can be deployed and display data from JavaOne 2011 or Devoxx 2011 based upon the SQL chosen for database initialization.

If javaone-sf-2011.sql is chosen for datbase initialization then the application looks like as shown:

If devoxx-2011.sql is chosen then the application looks like as shown:

And of course, clicking on Tracks, Speakers, Sessions shows you information from the respective conference.

The complete source code for the application and detailed instructions are availaable at glassfish.org/javaone2011. In short:

Download the sample app and unzip
Download GlassFish build b05.
Download platform-specific Load Balancer template
Run "bin/install.sh" to configure GlassFish
Pick javaone-sf-2011.sql or devoxx-2011.sql for database initialization

You can also watch the application in action in this video:

A breaking news shared at the conference was that Devoxx France is coming from April 18- 20 and 75% of the talks will be in French. Stay tuned for more details on that. I'm sure Antonio and gang will put up a great show out there!

Just a tip for the first timers to Devoxx ...

A bus leaves from Brussels airport to Antwerp city center between 4am - 11pm at the top of every hour, takes about 45 minutes, and costs 10 euros (only cash).
Take a tram #6 (going towards Luchtbal) from Astrid station (next to the city center) and get off at the last station for Metropolis. It takes about 15 minutes. Purchase a day pass at the station using kiosks (much cheaper) or you can buy in the bus as well (about double the price). Either way, cash only.

Here are a few pictures captured from the event:

And the complete album here:

Thank you Stephan for giving me an opportunity to speak at my first Devoxx. I hope to be back next year, just in time for Java EE 7 going final!

It happens only at Devoxx ...

2011-11-21T04:00:00+00:00

After attending several Java conferences world wide, this was my very first time at Devoxx. Here are some items I found that happens only at Devoxx ...

Pioneers of theater-style seating - This not only provides comfortable seating for each attendee but the screens are very clearly visible to everybody in the room.
Intellectual level of attendees is very high - Read more explanation on the Java EE 6 lab blog. In short, a lab, 1/3 of the content delivered at Devoxx 2011, could not be completed at other developer days in more than 1/3 the time.
Snack box for lunches - Even though this suits well to the healthy lifestyle of multiple-snacks-during-a-day style but leaves attendees hungry sooner in the day. The longer breaks before the next snack in the evening does not help at all. Fortunately, Azure cupcakes and Android ice creams turned out to be handy. I finally carried my own apple :-)
Wrist band instead of lanyard - The good part about this is that once tied to your hand then you are less likely to forget in your room. But OTOH you are a pretty much a branded conference attendee all through out the city. It was cost effective as it costed 20c as opposed to 1 euro for the lanyard.
Live streaming from theater #8 (the biggest room) on parleys.com
All talks recorded and released on parleys.com over next year. This allows attendees to not to miss any session and watch replay at their own leisure. Stephan promised to start sharing the sessions by mid December this year.
No need to pre-register for a session - This is true for most of the conferences but bigger rooms (+ overflow room for key sessions) provide sufficient space for all those who want to attend the session. And of course all sessions are available on parleys.com anyway!
Community votes on whiteboard - Devoxx attendees gets a chance to vote on topics ranging from their favorite non-Java language, operating system, or love from Oracle. Captured pictures at the end of Day 2 are shown below.
Movie on the last but one night - This year it was The Adventures of Tintin and was lots of fun.
Fries with mayo - This is a typical Belgian thing.
Guys going in ladies room to avoid the long queues ... wow!
Tweet wall everywhere and I mean literally everywhere, in rooms, hallways, front desk, and other places. The tweet picking algorithm was not very clear as I never saw my tweet appear on the wall ;-) You can also watch it at wall.devoxx.com.
Cozy speaker dinner with great food and wine
List of parallel and upcoming sessions displayed on the screen - This makes the information more explicit with the attendees.
REST API with multiple mobile clients - This API is also used by some other conferences as well. And there always is iphone.devoxx.com.
Steering committee members were recognized multiple times. The committee members were clearly identifiable wearing red hoodies.
The wireless SSID was intuitive "Devoxx" but hidden to avoid some crap from Microsoft Windows. All of 9000 addresses were used up most of the times with each attendee having multiple devices. A 1 GB fibre optic cable was stretched to Metropolis to support the required network bandwidth. Stephan is already planning to upgrade the equipment and have a better infrastructure next year.
Free water, soda, juice in a cooler
Kinect connected to TV screens so that attendees can use their hands to browse through the list of sesssions.
#devoxxblog, #devoxxwomen, #devoxxfrance, #devoxxgreat, #devoxxsuggestions
And Devoxx attendees are called Devoxxians ... how cool is that ? :-)

What other things do you think happen only at Devoxx ?

And now the pictures from the community whiteboard:

And a more complete album (including bigger pics of community votes) is available below:

Devoxx 2011: Java EE 6 Hands-on Lab Delivered

2011-11-18T05:32:14+00:00

I, along with Alexis's help, delivered a Java EE 6 hands-on lab to a packed room of about 40+ attendees at Devoxx 2011. The lab was derived from the OTN Developer Days 2012 version but added lot more content to showcase several Java EE 6 technologies. The problem statement from the lab document states:

This hands-on lab builds a typical 3-tier Java EE 6 Web application that retrieves customer information from a database and displays it in a Web page. The application also allows new customers to be added to the database as well. The string-based and type-safe queries are used to query and add rows to the database. Each row in the database table is published as a RESTful resource and is then accessed programmatically. Typical design patterns required by a Web application like validation, caching, observer, partial page rendering, and cross-cutting concerns like logging are explained and implemented using different Java EE 6 technologies.

The lab covered Java Persistence API 2, Servlet 3, Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, JavaServer Faces 2, Java API for RESTful Web Services 1.1, Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.0, and Bean Validation 1.0 over 47 pages of detailed self-paced instructions.

Here is the complete Table of Contents:

The lab can be downloaded from here and requires only NetBeans IDE "All" or "Java EE" version, which includes GlassFish anyway. All the feedback received from the lab has been incorporated in the instructions and bugs filed (Updated 49559, 205232, 205248, 205256).

80% of the attendees could easily complete the lab and some even completed in much less than 3 hours. That indicates that either more content needs to be added to the lab or the intellectual level of the attendees at the conference was pretty high. I think the lab has enough content for 3 hours but we moved at a much more faster pace so I conclude on the latter. Truly a joy to conduct a lab to 40 Devoxxians!

Another related lab that might be handy for folks is "Develop, Deploy, and Monitor your Java EE 6 applications using GlassFish 3.1 Cluster". It explains how:

Create a 2-instance GlassFish cluster
Front-end with a Web server and a load balancer
Demonstrate session replication and fail over
Monitor the application using JavaScript

The complete lab instructions and source code are available and you can try them.

I plan to continue evolving the contents for the Java EE 6 hands-on lab to cover more technologies and features and will announce them on this blog. Let me know on what else would you like to see in the future versions.

Oredev 2011 Trip Report

2011-11-11T10:00:06+00:00

Oredev had its seventh annual conference in the city of Malmo, Sweden last week. The name "Oredev" signifies to the part that Malmo is connected with Copenhagen with Oresund bridge.

There were about 1000 attendees with several speakers from all over the world. The first two days were hands-on workshops and the next three days were sessions. There were different tracks such as Java, Windows 8, .NET, Smart Phones, Architecture, Collaboration, and Entrepreneurship. And then there was Xtra(ck) which had interesting sessions not directly related to technology.

I gave two slide-free talks in the Java track. The first one showed how to build an end-to-end Java EE 6 application using NetBeans and GlassFish. The complete instructions to build the application are explained in detail here. This 3-tier application used Java Persistence API, Enterprsie Java Beans, Servlet, Contexts and Dependency Injection, JavaServer Faces, and Java API for RESTful Services. The source code built during the application can be downloaded here (LINK TBD).

The second session, slide-free again, showed how to take a Java EE 6 application into production using GlassFish cluster. It explained:

Create a 2-instance GlassFish cluster
Front-end with a Web server and a load balancer
Demonstrate session replication and fail over
Monitor the application using JavaScript

The complete instructions for this session are available here.

Oredev has an interesting way of collecting attendee feedback. The attendees drop a green, yellow, or red card in a bucket as they walk out of the session. Not everybody votes but most do. Other than the instantaneous feedback provided on twitter, this mechanism provides a more coarse grained feedback loop as well. The first talk had about 67 attendees (with 23 green and 7 yellow) and the second one had 22 (11 green and 11 yellow).

The speakers' dinner is a good highlight of the conference. It is arranged in the historic city hall and the mayor welcomed all the speakers. As you can see in the pictures, it is a very royal building with lots of history behind it. Fortunately the dinner was a buffet with a much better variety unlike last year where only black soup and geese were served, which was quite cultural BTW ;-)

The sauna in 85F, skinny dipping in 35F ocean and alternating between them at Kallbadhus is always very Swedish. Also spent a short evening at a friend's house socializing with other speaker/attendees, drinking Glogg, and eating Pepperkakor. The welcome packet at the hotel also included cinnamon rolls, recommended to drink with cold milk, for a little more taste of Swedish culture.

Something different at this conference was how artists from Image Think were visually capturing all the keynote speakers using images on whiteboards. Here are the images captured for Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder and now running Hipmunk):

Unfortunately I could not spend much time engaging with other speakers or attendees because was busy preparing a new hands-on lab material. But was able to spend some time with Matthew Mccullough, Micahel Tiberg, Magnus Martensson, Mattias Karlsson, Corey Haines, Patrick Kua, Charles Nutter, Tushara, Pradeep, Shmuel, and several other folks.

Here are a few pictures captured from the event:

And the complete album here:

Thank you Matthias, Emily, and Kathy for putting up a great show and giving me an opportunity to speak at Oredev. I hope to be back next year with a more vibrant representation of Java - the language and the ecosystem!

JFall 2011 Trip Report

2011-11-06T05:26:17+00:00

JFall is an annual conference organized by NLJUG, the Dutch Java Users Group.

The very first conference organized by NLJUG was JFall 2004. At that time, 7 years back, Simon Phipps talk about Java 5 and Adam Bien talking about Service Oriented Architectures with Beehive. Its amazing to see that the slides are linked from the web page and, more interestingly, still accessible :-) This is the case for all the subsequent years as well starting with 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. They've also organized JSpring for some years in between.

The conference is free for NLJUG members after they've paid their annual subscription of 37.50 Euros. The membership also pays for several workshops and events across the country through out the year, a quarterly Java magazine, and a chance to schmooze with the best of Java in Netherlands.

This year, Oracle was the main sponsor and the conference had 2 keynotes, 30 sessions, 4 hands-on labs, 42 speakers, and 1000+ attendees. As in the previous years, the attendance had to be capped at 1000 so that the members are not charged to attend the conference. But NLJUG may have to reasses it with the rapidly expanding Java ecosystem. The growing number of conferences in Europe (Devoxx, JFokus, Java2Days, 33rd Degree, JAX London, W-JAX, Oredev, GOTO, Scandinavian Developer Conference) and with most of them going packed, going commercial will allow JFall to move to a bigger venue and accommodate more attendees as well. But that's always a delicate balance :-)

Half of the sessions from the conference are recorded and will be published on parleys.com later this month.

I gave a talk on "The Java EE 7 Platform: Developing for the Cloud" providing details on how Java EE will provide a standards-based PaaS platform. The talk had about 500 attendees and the slides are available:

Java EE 7 at JAX London 2011 and JFall 2011

The talk showed how to deploy a Java EE 6 application using GlassFish 4.0 early builds. The demo can also be seen at:

Complete instructions to reproduce the demo are available here.

One of my favorite talk from the conference was "Migrating Spring to Java EE 6" by Paul Bakker. The talk was very real with pragmatic approach on how to migrate your Spring applications to Java EE 6. Like others, this talk was recorded and will be released on parleys.com. Other than that the speakers' dinner with Bert Ertman, Bert Breeman, Klaasjan Tukker, Michael Heutterman, Stephan Janssen, Steve Wilson, Tomas Nilsson, Michael Heinrichs, and others was fun.

Klaasjan, finally, showed me speaker evaluations from 2009 and was happy to see that the overall scores were the second highest for me. Its always nice to know that attendees like the structure and technical depth of the presentation. Looking forward to evaluations for this year now!

The conference venue was in Regardz Van Ampt, Nijkerk with nice biking and running trails all around. I just could not miss this chance and ran a quick about-5 miler:

Bert Ertman also hooked me up with HAN University, Arnhem. I gave a code-driven Java EE 6 workshop using NetBeans and GlassFish to about 50 Computer Science students and several faculty members. The students are about to start a 6 month project and hopefully some of them will use Java EE 6. The audience was very interactive making the overall delivery very interesting. The instructions to reproduce the code are available here.

Arnhem has Sonsbeek Park which had beautiful fall colors and has great running trails too. Fortunately, the park was very close to the hotel and so I managed to sneek another run:

Here are a few pictures captured from the event and related visits:

And the complete album here:

Thank you NLJUG for giving me an opportunity to speak to Dutch audience, looking forward to my presentation next year!

Next stop is Oredev, back home for a close wedding, Devoxx, OTN Developer Days in Portugal, and final stop JavaOne Brazil for this year!

JAX London 2011 Fall Trip Report

2011-11-05T18:28:58+00:00

JAX conferences are organized by Software & Support Media which also organize a whole bunch of other conferences. The JAX London Fall 2011, with 3 power workshops, 4 keynotes, 57 speakers, 63 sessions, and 400+ attendees was the biggest JAX London ever.

Sebastien Meyen, the main guy behind these conferences, demonstrated high passion about Java by making the statement "We love this industry and ecosystem around it" and "Oracle has proven Java to be innovative". This time they added an Agile Day because that's the way they believe things work.

I could stay for one day only because of other commitments. I gave a talk on "The Java EE 7 Platform: Developing for the Cloud" providing details on how Java EE will provide a standards-based PaaS platform. The talk had about 40+ attendees and the slides are available:

Java EE 7 at JAX London 2011 and JFall 2011

The talk showed how to deploy a Java EE 6 application using GlassFish 4.0 early builds. The demo can also be seen at:

Complete instructions to reproduce the demo are available here.

There were good interactions with Martijn Verburg, Ben Evans, John Stevenson, and Eberhard Wolff at the speakers' dinner. Mark Little's keynote was interesting as he emphasized the importance of JVM and standards-based platform for middleware applications. I heard great comments about Adam Bien's all-day long Java EE workshop, nothing unusual there ;-) I also spent some time at Oracle booth as well.

Sebastien and gang are already planning to bring JAX Conf back to San Francisco, so very excited for that!

Here are a few pictures captured from the event:

And the complete album here:

Thank you JAX for giving me an opportunity to speak at JAX London!

GlassFish Customer Stories from JavaOne 2011

2011-11-03T05:18:52+00:00

Several GlassFish customers presented at the GlassFish Community Event at JavaOne 2011. Their slides + videos are now available:

Enjoy!

Migrating Spring to Java EE 6 Article Series

2011-11-02T10:57:57+00:00

Java EE 6 with its light-weight, easy-to-use, and simplified yet powerful functionality is very compelling. This is the only standards-based enterprise Java platform supported by multiple vendors including, but not limited to, Oracle, IBM, Apache, Caucho, and others.

To highlight some advantages of the Java EE 6 platform (and brush up some ;-) ...

How do you write an EJB ?

@Stateless
public class MyEJB {
    public doTransaction() {
        . . .
    }
}

And package it in a WAR, no deployment descriptor or special packaging. Don't keep blowing the J2EE 1.3/1.4 horn guys!

How do you inject a bean or multiple implementations of service in another class ?

@Inject [@SomeQualifier] MyEJB

Yes, Contexts and Dependency Injection provide lot more rich functionality in the platform.

How do you schedule a timed task ? - Just add

@Schedule

on a public method of an EJB>

How do you expose a POJO as a RESTful entity ?

@Path
public class MyResource {
    @GET
 @Produces("application/xml")
    public String myGet() {
        . . . 
    }
}

JSF 2 now uses Facelets-based templating language, allow composite components to be written very easily, truly enforce MVC-based pattern, and lot more benefits.

What does a Servlet look like ?

@WebServlet
public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        . . .
    }
}

And no "web.xml" here as well.

With a wide variety of development (NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ) and deployment options (GlassFish, JBoss, Caucho, TomEE, ...) and no vendor lock-in, Java EE 6 is the only platform you need to build your enterprise applications. Read more benefits of the platform by the actual users here.

With all these benefits of Java EE 6, here is a very timely multi-part article by David Heffelfinger showing how to migrate your applications from Spring -> Java EE 6. Don't wait, you can deploy Java EE 6 applications on GlassFish (along with commercial support from Oracle) today!

Part 1 is now available.

Let us know what you think!

JAX London, JFall, Oredev, Devoxx, OTN Developer Day (Lisbon), JavaOne Latin America: Java EE and GlassFish coming closer to you

2011-10-26T10:50:51+00:00

The conference circuit starts this Sunday with London, and then goes to Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Portugal, and concluding with Latin America later this year. Yes, I'll be home for a few days in between ;-)

Check out the complete Java EE day at JAX London on Nov 1:

Clean Code and Java EE 6 by Adam Bien
Apache TomEE - Java EE Web Profile on Tomcat by Jonathan Gallimore
Lightning fast developers are only as fast as their tools by Simon Maple
Java EE 7: Developing for the Cloud by Arun Gupta
Modular EJBs for Enterprise OSGi by Tim Ward

JFall is the annual conference organized by NLJUG and here is the list of Oracle sessions:

Keynote - Java 7 Directors Cut by Tomas Nilsson
The Java EE 7 Platform: Developing for the Cloud by Arun Gupta
Introduction to Java FX 2.0 by Michael Heinrichs

Stephen Chin is also giving three back-to-back Java FX 2.0 hands-on lab sessions for a total immersion.

Most of the sessions are in Dutch and Migrating Spring to Java EE 6 by Paul Bakker would be an interesting one.

Here are the sessions that I'll be giving at Oredev (Nov 7 - 11):

And the keynotes and evening activities are certainly very exciting!

A whole bunch of Oracle sessions at Devoxx 2011(Nov 14-18):

Monday

GlassFish: Application versioning and high-availability rolling upgrade (by Marian Muller from Serli)

Tuesday

Building an end-to-end application Java EE 6 and NetBeans by Arun Gupta and Alexis MP
Java Rich Clients with Java FX 2.0 with Richard Blair and Jasper Potts
What's in your toolbox for JDK 7 ? by Geertjan Wielenga
Jackpot 3.0 - Large scale custom refactorings made easy by Jan Lahoda and Anton Chechel
Fireside Chat with James Gosling, Ben Forta, Tim Bray, and Cameron Purdy
The OpenJDK Community BoF by Dalibor Topic

Wednesday

Java SE Keynote by Henrik Stahl
Java EE Keynote by Cameron Purdy
JavaFX Under the Hood by Richard Blair
Complete guide to writing custom bindings in Java FX 2.0 by Michael Heinrichs
JavaFX Properties and Bindings for Experts by Michael Heinrichs
JDK 7, 8 and 9 by Mark Reinhold
The Heads and Tails of Project Coin by Joe Darcy and Maurizio Cimadamore
The File System API in JDK 7 by Alan Bateman
Language/Library Co-Evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz
JavaFX Open Mic by Richard Blair and Jasper Potts
Java EE Gathering by Alexis MP, Pete Muir, Dan Allen, Nigel Deakin, Emmanuel Bernard, and Werner Keil
Lessons from the java.net Migration: Managing an Open Source Community through Major Change by Sonya Barry
JAX-RS 2.0: RESTful Java on Steroids by Marek Potociar

Thursday

Practical Experience Building JavaFX Rich Clients by Richard Blair and Jaspter Potts
Whats coming in Java Message Service 2.0 by Nigel Deakin and Masoud Kalali
Java FX 2.0 Hands On by Richard Blair and Jasper Potts
GlassFish, 2 years into Java EE 6 at Oracle (real world use-cases included) by Alexis MP
Pragmatic Cloud and PaaS with Java EE 7 (and GlassFish) by Jerome Dochez
Animation: Bringin Your User Interfaces to Life by Michael Heinrichs and John Yoon
JDK 8 BOF by Brian Goetz, Mark Reinhold, and Neil Richards
Jigsaw: Putting It Together by Mark Reinhold
JPA Multi-tenancy and Extensibility: Blazing the Trail to JPA 2.0 in EclipseLink by Shaun Smith

Friday

Technical Discussion Panel by Joshua Bloch, Brian Goetz, Ben Evans, Mark Reinhold, Dion Almaer. Brian H. Prince

It took 10 years for Devoxx to let me participate ... thank you Stephan ;-)

OTN Developer Day Enterprise Java (Nov 18) is coming to Lisbon, Portugal with Java EE 6 and Java EE 7, NetBeans, GlassFish and everything around standards-based enterprise Java. Agenda is still a work on progress but strap your seatbelts as we will share tons of exciting content with you.

JavaOne Latin America (Dec 6-8) will have four conference tracks:

The exact schedule is still being worked upon JavaOne Latin America is going to be bigger and better based upon the list of submissions and the changes that are coming. Stay tuned ...

Where will I see or run with you ?

Oracle Public Cloud - Java, Database, Social Network, Fusion CRM, Fusion HCM

2011-10-20T18:10:00+00:00

The Oracle Public Cloud is a suite of Oracle Applications, Middleware and Database offerings delivered in a self-service, subscription-based, elastically scalable, reliable, highly available and secure manner. Oracle provides hosting, management, software updates, and world-class support for these offerings.

The Oracle Public Cloud includes the following services:

Why Oracle Public Cloud is a better offering than others ?

It can be used for enterprise business applications because of the complete (applications, database, middleware), open (based on standards), and flexible (cloud and on-premise deployment with the ability to move applications back-and-forth)
Applications are fully integrated and ready to use
New applications can be built using standards like Java EE and SQL without locking you into a framework
Based upon Exalogic and Exadata offering superior reliability, peformance, and elastic capacity

Read more details at Why Oracle ?.

Watch an interesting set of short introductory videos recorded on some of the services. The first one is an introduction on Oracle Public Cloud:

The next one explains the Oracle Java Cloud Service:

Read more about the Java Service at Reza's blog. See a live demo of the Java Service below:

Then the Oracle Database Cloud Service:

And finally the Oracle Social Network Cloud Service:

Read more details about Oracle Social Network Service. How do you get started ?

Sign up at cloud.oracle.com to be notified of when the service is made available.
Follow @OracleCloudZone for latest updates

Here are some more links for you:

The service will be offered from the US-based data centers and then expanding to EMEA and APAC based upon demand.