Java.net’s Java
Tools Community
The Java Tools
Community is one
of the most active
communities on Java.net. Led by
Fabiane Bizinella Nardon, Anton
(Toni) Epple, and Daniel López
Janáriz, the community supports
the development of open source
Java development tools on Java
.net, offering guidance and feed-
back to Java Tools project leaders
and visibility to their projects.
Key projects associated with
the Java Tools Community
include VisualVM (a tool that
visually integrates command-line JDK tools and lightweight
profiling capabilities); Hudson
CI (a continuous integration [CI]
tool); Jailer (a tool that provides
data exportation of referentially
intact row sets); ThreadLogic (a
graphical interface for analyzing Java thread dumps); Java
Application Bundler (a tool that
packages a Java application as
a Mac application bundle); and
JTHarness (a fully featured test
framework that facilitates comprehensive unit testing).
If you have an idea for an open
source Java tool, consider hosting
your project on Java.net and joining the Java Tools Community.
JAVA IN ACTION
JAVA TECH
JAVAONE INDIA 2012
ABOUT US
More than 2,000 people attended JavaOne
India, held May 3–4 in Hyderabad. This
regional JavaOne conference included
informative keynote and technical sessions,
hands-on labs, and an Oracle Technology
Network room for community-related
presentations.
The Java Strategy keynote reminded the
Indian Java community of the power and
strength of Java and reaffirmed Oracle’s
commitment to Java. Oracle Java engineer-
ing executives Nandini Ramani and Anil Gaur
provided an overview of the technology road-
map for Java, including plans for Java SE 8,
the focus on the cloud for Java EE 7, and the
Java SE and ME/embedded convergence.
“Oracle has aggressive plans for Java over
the next few years, and we are continuing
to drive technical advancements across the
platform,” Gaur said.
At the Nokia keynote, Gerard J. Rego, head
of ecosystem and developer experience at
Nokia, provided an overview of the state of
mobile technology. The keynote included a
video about a cool mobile application called
Nano Ganesh that controls water pumps via
mobile phone, a boon for Indian farmers
so they don’t have to walk to their pumps
at night. The developer, Santosh Ostwal,
came on stage to discuss his application and
encouraged developers to use their creativ-
ity to solve problems. “Don’t think of it as
a phone; think of it as a low-cost wireless
device,” he said. See Nano Ganesh in action.
