Summary Day2 
Pieter’s day 2 at JavaOne 2009 summary(0)
Wednesday, June 03
Today was another great day @ JavaOne, let me give you a summary of the sessions I found the most interesting…
Getting Serious About Build Automation: Using Maven in the Real World 9:45 - 10:45
Maven 2 is becoming increasingly popular in larger organizations looking to standardize and industrialize their build processes as well as [...]
RIA enterprise applications using javaFX
In javaFx 1.2 there are several form elements added that you can use to create enterprise form.
Using Flamingo, you can directly access POJO service beans or managed beans defined in Seam or Spring.
Using a special factory class, a proxy is available on the javaFx client that redirects all calls to the server.
Flamingo also provides a [...]
The Modular Java Platform and Project Jigsaw @ JavaOne day 2
I was attending the session presented by Mark Reinhold about the modular Java platform and Jigsaw. Mark already gave a preview of the modularity of open JDK7 on ubuntu during the general session on day 1.
Mark already talked about why the JDK had to become a modular JDK. When Java started the JDK contained only [...]
Move your users: rules for animation in GUI
When adding animation to your gui we can learn a lot cartoon animation.
There are 12 basic rules (put up by Walt Disney) that really help doing animation correctly.
First we go over the rules and afterwards we will apply them to guis
Cartoon animation rules
Squash & Stretch
realistic animation
enhances the feeling of motion
makes the animation more fuid
Anticipation
short [...]