Today the keynote started with a trailer of the movie we're going to watch tonight: Beowulf. If you like the genre it's probably a great movie, and since I do like the genre I'm really looking forward to it. After the trailer Bruce Eckel and James Ward did the same they did Monday, talking about, and showing how to code Flex. It was actually fun to see it again a bit shorter. Bruce really know what an audience wants and makes a great team with James. I'll probably watch it on Parleys again. More about that when you read further. Bruce and James did show some new things which they did not showed before. A cool demo with an opensource component that allowed you to watch a book and flip through transparent pages. For example an overlay of organs over a sheet of the human body. It looked really slick. Something I did not know before, was the fact Flex can use multiple cores when rendering. It really speeds things up on multicore machines.
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Day three of JavaPolis, the first conference day. A long keynote and one hour sessions afterwards.
The keynote started with a welcome of Stephan Janssen, the organizer of JavaPolis. Bruce Eckel told a bit about Open Space, and the rest of the keynote it was mostly James Gosling. James presented some statistics and figures of Java users and downloads, and encouraged everyone to visit dev.java.net more often. When talking about mobile devices James said something quite funny:
You can even use COBOL on a mobile device, but you you're probably pretty sick when you do that. But hey, we're in Belgium, right?
Another point of interest is NetBeans 6.0. I have been playing around with it a couple of days now, but apparently today is the official release. It has a lot of improvements and works a lot smoother. Also it has support for a lot of languages out of the box.
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The second day of JavaPolis is packed with interesting sessions again. I choose to attend two desktop/ria university sessions. One about Flex, and one about JavaFX. I never played around with both, but I knew Flex is much more mature than JavaFX.
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Today JavaPolis really started. The first and second day are filled with university sessions and tools in action sessions. University sessions are 3 hours with a small break, so there's time for two. At the end of the day there is time for two tools in action sessions, which take about half an hour each. The first session started at 9.30, which gave us the ability to get a good night of sleep.
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JavaPolis is probably the biggest Java conference in Europe. Last year I was unable to attend, so I was quite looking forward to it this year. Traveling from Groningen to Antwerpen with stops in Assen and Lemmer (not geographically logical) we arrived at the hotel around 22.00. We had a couple of Belgium beers and went to bed early to get some sleep for the real event.The coming days I will post some information on the sessions I attend.
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