Java Magazine - May/June 2012

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JAVA IN ACTION

Jim Weaver

JAVA TECH

Participants in Round Two of the Java Olympics showed laser focus during the competition, and then celebrated their achievements.

Stephen Chin

Jim Weaver and Stephen Chin—two recognized JavaFX technology luminaries and “rock star” speakers from the Java community—have joined Oracle’s Java evangelist team. Jim Weaver is a Java and JavaFX developer, author, and speaker with a passion for helping rich-client Java and JavaFX become preferred technologies for new application development. He is the author of Inside Java (New Riders Pub, 1997) and Beginning J2EE (Wrox Press, 2003). Stephen Chin is a Java technical expert specializing

ROUND TWO OF

in UI technologies, an open source hacker, and a seasoned conference speaker. Both Weaver and Chin are coauthors of Pro JavaFX Platform (Apress, 2009), the leading technical reference for JavaFX, and Pro JavaFX 2 (Apress, 2012). This is a win for the entire Java community.

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JAVA OLYMPICS

ENDS; FINALS LOOM

JavaSpotlight Podcast

Round Two of the 2011–2012 Java Olympics finished in March, with Round One’s top achievers (from 151 universities in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan) competing in 11 cities across the region. Each competitor was provided with a PC preloaded with Oracle JDK 1.7u2 and NetBeans 7.1 and was presented with six problems (designed by a team of 12 Russian engineers) to solve using Java. Alexander Belokrylov of Oracle St. Petersburg reports that although all six problems were successfully solved, no one individual competitor solved all the problems.

Participants submitted their solutions to a remote server, where a tweaked version of the Ejudge Contest Management System analyzed the solutions. The results were delivered in real time as the competition progressed. “I followed all the contests,” says Belokrylov. “It is a really exciting experience, like a horse race or football game!”

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