JavaOne: What's Next in Server Side Technology
My final session of day one here at JavaOne was presented by Larry Cable, VP and Architect for WebLogic Server at BEA Systems (now part of Oracle). Larry deserves kudos for presenting a session that was a wide look at the concepts of Server Side java and the direction it is heading in, instead of using the hour as an opportunity to flog some WebLogic features and licenses. Maybe he knew better than to try that with the expectant crowd that packed the room!

He began be reviewing the history of server side programming, covering the pre-J2EE world of proprietary interfaces offered by CGI, ISAPI and CORBA, through DCOM and ASP to the first release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition. It seems odd to hear somebody recall the days of Containers being state of the art and the fact that POJO’s hadn’t been discovered at that point in time. He went on to say that one of the best things about J2EE at the time was the deployment and packaging model it brought to the world.
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CommunityOne 2008 Impressions (Day 0 of JavaOne)
The CommunityOne conference this year was on Monday, May 5, 2008, the day before JavaOne "proper". It's easy to think of CommunityOne as a "pre-JavaOne", or "JavaOne, Day 0" because, like JavaOne, it's sponsored by Sun Microsystems, it's at the same venue, and it is logistically managed as sort-of an extension of JavaOne (your JavaOne conference pass is used, but with an optional one-day add-on for CommunityOne). So why the distinct conference name and date? Aren't CommunityOne and JavaOne the same kind of conference sponsored by the same company?

Well, yes and no. They're "the same, but different". Both are developer conferences, but CommunityOne is geared toward allowing us to meet the actual open-source developers who are working on the latest upcoming releases of our favorite open-source software projects. CommunityOne's tagline is "Come in and learn a while" -- the sessions are presented by experts representing a wide range of open source projects; from chip design to operating systems to web servers and databases to scripting languages and tools.
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JavaOne Wednesday Morning Keynote: "Oracle Enterprise" - Oracle Corp.
Oracle believes Java is integral part of the upcoming transformation of the Enterprise to more Web-2.0-like -- to adopt the look and feel of Web 2.0 and fulfill the funtional expectations of the typical Web 2.0 user (creating informational mashups, creating new levels of integration between normally non-integrated modules of a web applicion, or at least data elements managed by those modules).
Presenter: Thomas Kurian, Senior VP Oracle

Oracle believes that in the Enterprise spaces, there are 4 trends:

• Service Oriented Architecture (AOA, to make your apps more modular)
• Business Event Architecture - once you make your apps more modular, you can make more flexible
• Rich Enterprise 2.0 (a.k.a. Enterprise 2.0, a.k.a. Web 2.0)
• Grid Computing Architecture

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