Summary Day1 
Pieter’s day 1 at JavaOne 2009 summary(0)
Tuesday June 2
General session
The setting for the general session was impressive.
General sessions are held in halls B-C, which are gigantic.In the front: a giant stage with 2 big screens, I also saw 2 or 3 camera crews, and when we entered house music was playing (which was excellent by the way).
So the session started off, [...]
A complete tour of the JavaServer Faces 2.0 platform
This session presented a comprehensive tour of all the new features in the JavaServer Faces 2.0 platform. For me, this was the most interesting session of JavaPolis day 1.Probably because I’m currently involved in a project that heavily uses the JSF framework.
To start with, JSF 2.0 has color coded java docs: green-orange-red (what’s new - [...]
JavaOne techincal session: EJB 3.1
My first technical session @ JavaOne … EJB 3.1. A session from which I had high expectations.
The speaker gave an overview of what was new and better in EJB 3.1.
Simplified packaging, ears will be a part of the past.
EJB 3.1 light version. You will be able to use a subset of the EJB features in [...]
The Java Store announced at the JavaOne 2009 keynote
My first day @ JavaOne … It was overwhelming!
After having breakfast in a gigantic hall, the JavaOne general keynote started in an even bigger hall. Jonathan Schwartz gave an overview of the what java has become in over 14 years and what we can expect in the future. Basically most of these things we already [...]