Andres Almiray is a Sun Certified Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer with more than 8 years of experience in software design and development, currently working for Oracle as a Principal Software Engineer. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include software architecture, developer testing, Groovy, Spring and swing hacks. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib and EZMorph among others). Andres maintains a blog at http://jroller.com/aalmiray.
This is my third JavaOne. Many topics were discussed, friendships were made,
new partnerships were started. I must say things have changed a lot and
stayed the same yet again, here are my thoughts in no particular order, bear
in mind that they do not represent the opinion of my current employer nor the
open source teams I am member of.
Photo: Arun Gupta
So where do we start? oh yes the main keynote, though we saw some impressive
(and crashing demos) I believe the quantity has been decreasing, is JavaFX
the only thing worth showcasing the first day? the next general session
showed Glassfish v3 in action, mad props to the Glassfish team, they have
literally changed my opinion on JEE/App Servers, I mean GV3 is so small you
can even embed it in mobile devices (which I believ... (more)
Andres Almiray is a Sun Certified Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer with more than 8 years of experience in software design and development, currently working for Oracle as a Principal Software Engineer. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include software architecture, developer testing, Groovy, Spring and swing hacks. He is a true believer in open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib and EZMorph among others). Andres maintains a blog at http://jroller.com/aalmiray.
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