Eddú Meléndez

JavaOne 2014

This year I had the opportunity to attend at JavaOne 2014 in San Francisco, California. It has been a really good experience to me.

In the JavaHub, I could take a look about:

  • Mission Control.
  • 3D Modeling and Printing, using Java FX.
  • New features in Netbeans, which allow us to migrate from older java versions to java 8 and use Streams.
  • Internet of Things, using Java Embedded and Raspberry Pi.
  • Hackergarten, the place where you can contribute in open source projects talking with the experts.

Some companies were present in this event such as: Cloudbees, GitHub, Gradleware, Hazelcast, JetBrains, JFrog, Liferay, O'Reilly, Pivotal, RedHat, Sonatype, Vaadin, Zeroturnaround.

Also, had the chance to meet:

  • Anton Arhipov - @antonarhipov, JRebel and XRebel Product Manager at Zeroturnaround.
  • Arun Gupta - @arungupta, Director of Developer Advocacy at Red Hat and Author of Java EE 7 Essentials.
  • Benjamin Muschko - @bmuschko, Principal Engineer at Gradleware and Author of Gradle in Action.
  • John Ferguson - @wakaleo, Author of Java Power Tools, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide and BDD in Action.
  • Josh Long - @starbuxman, Spring Developer Advocate.
  • Phill Weeb - @phillip_webb, Spring Framework committer and co-lead of Spring Boot.

Below, are the sessions I found most interesting:

Sunday

  • Introduction to Java 8: JVM, Language, and Platform.
  • Starting a JUGgernaut: How to Start and Rapidly Grow Your JUG.
  • Java Strategy and Technical Keynotes.

Monday

  • Hadoop for Java Developers. http://goo.gl/f2CwNz
  • Next Step in Automation: Elastic Build Environment.
  • Programming with Streams in Java 8.

Tuesday

  • Devoxx4Kids for Parents.
  • Functional UIs with Java 8 and Vaadin.
  • Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins.

Wednesday

  • Continuous Delivery and Zero Downtime: What Your Architecture Needs to Succeed.
  • Apache TomEE, Java EE Web Profile, and More on Tomcat.
  • REST Assured: Hypermedia APIs with Spring MVC.

Tuesday

  • The Deploy Factory: Open Source Tools for Java Deployment.
  • Run Java Applications with Docker on the Raspberry Pi and Other Platforms.

Java 8 was the main topic during this party, everyone talked about it. As a Venkat Subramaniam said in his talk:

Java arrived later with lambdas but arrived with the desserts (Streams)

MVC 1.0 part of JEE 8 had place at JavaOne… in my opinion looks like Spring MVC but good to know that good things have been adopted.

JavaOne is the best place to meet people, authors, learn new things, get stuff like raspberry pi, books and t-shirts and drink a beer.

Duke and me

Keynote

Duke

Duke Awards

Josh Long and me

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