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JavaOne LATIN AMERICA

2011 NEWS ROUNDUP

PROMISES DELIVERED At the Java strategy keynote on the first day of JavaOne Latin America, Oracle executives stepped through Oracle’s Java technology roadmap for Java SE, Java EE, Java ME, and JavaFX. “Last year at JavaOne Latin America, Oracle was full of promises,” said Georges Saab, vice president of development, Java Platform Group. “This year we can say Oracle delivered on those promises: Java SE 7, JavaFX 2.0, and increasing transparency in the JCP [Java Community Process].” Nandini Ramani, vice president of development, Java client platform, announced the release of JavaFX 2.0.2. She explained that starting with JavaFX 2.0.2, JavaFX is available under the same license and business model as Java SE. This includes the ability to distribute the JavaFX runtime (or Software Development Kit) for third-party developers with their application(s), subject to the terms and conditions of the license. (Developers can follow and join the JavaFX open source project at OpenJFX.) The technical keynotes on the second day provided more details on each of these technologies.

JAVA IN ACTION JAVA TECH

Arun Gupta
Stephen Chin
Georges Saab
JavaOne Latin America 2011
was held in São Paulo, Brazil,
December 6–8, 2011. The regional
JavaOne conference included great
keynotes, deep technical sessions,
engaging hands-on labs, a bustling
Oracle Technology Network lounge,
booth swag (Duke T-shirts!),
wonderful conversations, and even
a maté tasting.

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FOCUS ON JAVAFX

There was lots of buzz around JavaFX. At the technical keynote, the JavaFX demos generated the most interest, especially the JavaFX game running on a desktop and two different tablets. The other demo that sparked a lot of interest was the Henley Sales Dashboard, a client/server application for a fictional global automobile company. The front end was developed with JavaFX, displaying real-time sales data via MySQL and deployed on Oracle GlassFish Server. At the standing-room-only session “XML-Free Programming: Java Server and Client,” Stephen Chin, chief agile methodologist at GXS and Java Champion, and Arun Gupta, Java evangelist at Oracle, discussed how to build Web apps with a JavaFX client and a Java EE server.