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| Learning Curve Journal, Part 2: Declarative User Interfaces |
Updated July 2008 |
| Part 2 focuses on the declarative style of coding enabled by JavaFX Script. You'll see how this style can make the code for a graphical application simpler and more intuitive. |
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| Learning Curve Journal, Part 3: JavaFX Script Functions |
Updated July 2008 |
| Part 3 shows you how to use JavaFX Script functions to implement actions in a Java FX Script program. |
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| Using Scene Graph in JavaFX Script |
June 2008 |
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This article describes a demo that uses the scene graph features in JavaFX Script, enabling you to apply animation and translucency effects.
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Using Java Objects Within JavaFX Programs
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May 2008
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In this article, Sun software engineer Michael Heinrichs presents possible ways to create JavaFX objects and use them in Java code.
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Using UI Components in Compiled JavaFX Script Technology
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April 2008
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With this example program, learn how to use eight user interface (UI) components in JavaFX Script technology.
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Creating Rich Internet Applications With Compiled JavaFX Script Technology
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January 2008
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Learn to use JavaFX Script technology to create a compiled JavaFX program that contains user interface components and 2D graphics.
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Sun and MySQL: How It Stacks Up for Developers
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February 2008
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MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database, fills an important niche in Sun's software stack. With Sun's reach and resources, MySQL is poised for even wider adoption.
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Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students
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December 2008
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Eleven leading Java developers -- from Joshua Bloch to Tor Norbye to Chet Haase -- offer advice to students about how to become better developers.
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Meet Sun Software Engineering Manager Masood Mortazavi, Part 1:
Reflections on Computers, Technology, and Life
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December 2008
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Sun software engineering manager Masood Mortazavi reflects on the meaning of technology, the pitfalls of virtual reality, the nature of
open-source movements, and more.
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| Encode Once, Play Anywhere: An Interview With JavaFX Media Lead Engineer Tony Wyant |
December 2008 |
| In this interview, Tony Wyant, Sun's lead engineer for JavaFX Media, shares his vision of how JavaFX media technology will change the way rich Internet applications (RIAs) are built. |
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Charles Nutter Discusses JVM Language Summit
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November 2008
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JRuby core developer Charlie Nutter gives his views on the first annual JVM Language Summit.
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More Effective Java With Google's Joshua Bloch
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October 2008
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Joshua Bloch, Effective Java author and Google's chief Java architect, gives readers a peek into the revised edition of his popular book.
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Meet Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo, GlassFish Engineer at Sun Microsystems
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August 2008
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Sun GlassFish engineer Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo provides an update on GlassFish, discusses the Java EE portability checking tool he's writing, and offers insight into the benefits of working in an open-source community.
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Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C: A Conversation With Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud
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July 2008
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Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud discusses ways to integrate mobile devices into the computer science curriculum -- and incur the gratitude of students.
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Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine
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July 2008
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Java Champion and Java performance expert Kirk Pepperdine shares ways to identify and solve Java performance bottlenecks.
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Better Programming With Java EE: A Conversation With Java Champion Adam Bien
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April 2008
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Java Champion Adam Bien talks about the challenges and intricacies of Java EE, ways to conduct large-scale IT projects, and the joys of developing.
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From Java Platform Improvements to Better Teaching: A Conversation With Java Champion Cay Horstmann
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February 2008
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Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students.
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Meet Sun Software Engineering Manager Masood Mortazavi, Part 1: Reflections on Computers, Technology, and Life
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December 2008
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Sun software engineering manager Masood Mortazavi reflects on the meaning of technology, the pitfalls of virtual reality, the nature of
open-source movements, and more.
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Meet Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo, GlassFish Engineer at Sun Microsystems
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August 2008
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Sun GlassFish engineer Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo provides an update on GlassFish, discusses the Java EE portability checking tool he's writing, and offers insight into the benefits of working in an open-source community.
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How the Java Platform Plays With Scripting Languages
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June 2008
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Instead of hot debate, this article provides a comprehensive picture of how Java plays with scripting languages to leverage the advantages of both technologies.
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NetBeans, Solaris, GlassFish: The Ruby's Red Slippers Fit
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March 2008
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The Ruby landscape is turning into a gem, fueling the move to Web 2.0.
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Application Basics With Ants (Young Developer Series, Part 3)
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December 2008
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Learn about Java packages, variables, and ways that objects interact with each other through methods.
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Wombat Object Basics
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August 2008
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Part 2 of the Young Developers series teaches you where Java code is
written and saved, how classes relate to one another, and how to use the
Greenfoot code editor.
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Wombat Classes Basics
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August 2008
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Programming is not just for adults anymore! The Young Developer Series
teaches Java programming to anyone age 10 and up. In Part 1 of the
series, learn what Java objects are and how they interact with each other.
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2008 JavaOne Conference Wrap-Up: Wherever You Go, There You Are -- and So Is Java Technology
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, SDN staffer Laureen Hudson is pleased to report that this year's conference was ubiquitous in all worlds -- real, virtual (Second Life), and via webcast. Now, you CAN be in several places at the same (time-shifted) time.
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Rock Star Joshua Bloch
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May 2008
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Janice Heiss chats with Rock Star Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect and a former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
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Rock Star Raghavan Srinivas
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May 2008
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Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is the CTO of technology evangelism at Sun Microsystems, focused on new technology directions and trends.
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Rock Star Ben Galbraith
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May 2008
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In 2007, Galbraith sold two companies he founded: Ajaxian.com, a media property and related conference series, and Feature50, a high-end software consulting company. What's he up to now?
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Rock Star Tony Printezis
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May 2008
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Tony Printezis, a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, spends most of his time working on dynamic memory management for the Java platform, concentrating on performance, scalability, responsiveness, parallelism, and visualization of garbage collectors.
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Rock Star Tor Norbye
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May 2008
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Tor Norbye, principal engineer at Sun Microsystems and member of the Java Posse, talks about the NetBeans IDE, Java technology, and what every beginning developer should know.
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Rock Star Chet Haase
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May 2008
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Chet Haase, senior computer scientist on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, talks about graphics software, the importance of mathematics, the Timing Framework, and banana phones.
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JavaFX Platform - Sexy Interfaces for Mere Mortals
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May 2008
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JavaFX developer Joshua Smith provided a practical demonstration of JavaFX, what it can do, and the idioms required to build a compelling GUI in this example-intense session.
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Scripting Language Smack-Down
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May 2008
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Where at the JavaOne conference does "www" stand for "world-wide wrestling?" In session PAN-5435, that's where -- it's called the Script Bowl.
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Sentilla's Pervasive Computing -- The Universe Is the Computer
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May 2008
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Sentilla CTO Joe Polastre's session on Mote software and pervasive computing illustrated how we've moved from "The network is the computer" to "The universe is the computer."
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Motorola General Session -- Mobile Evolution, Innovation, and Opportunity
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May 2008
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Christy Wyatt, vice president of Software Platforms and Ecosystem at Motorola, Inc., explores current and future trends in the mobile market, how developers can best bring their innovations to market, and Motorola's many initiatives to provide an optimal road map for the mobile space.
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Gosling's Christmas-in-May Toy Show
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May 2008
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James Gosling's annual pick of extreme innovation in Java technology takes place at the 8:30 a.m. technical session at the 2008 JavaOne Conference. Mars surface maps, talking pens, massive super-colliders -- read all about it.
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The NetBeans Ruby IDE: You Thought Rails Development Was Fun Before
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, One of the powerful features added to NetBeans IDE 6.0 was support for Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails.
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Making JavaOne More Environmentally Responsible
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May 2008
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Find out what the 2008 JavaOne Conference Team did to make this year's conference environmentally friendly.
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Intel General Session -- Exploring Innovation Through Software
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May 2008
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In the Thursday, May 8, general session, Douglas W. Fisher, vice president and general manager of the System Software Division at Intel, shared insights on how hardware can most effectively meet software in an era of abstraction, open source, cloud computing, social networking, and mobile Internet.
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Mapping Mars
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, This year the focus went to an all important mapping system called Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS), a Java technology-based geospatial information system developed by the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University.
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Creating a Java EE Appliance With GlassFish Application Server on OpenSolaris
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, At the JavaOne conference Wednesday morning, Sun technical evangelists Peter Karlsson and Chuk-Munn Lee led a technical session on how to build a Java EE platform-based appliance with the GlassFish application server on OpenSolaris and offered many practical and insightful tips for developers and system administrators alike.
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AMD General Session -- A Different Perspective on Java Technology Evolution
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, In the Wednesday, May 7, general session, Leendert vanDoorn, senior AMD fellow, explored the role of the microprocessor in the evolution of Java technology -- how Java technology sets AMD free to innovate and how the Java community benefits from AMD's forward-thinking hardware and software initiatives.
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Mobility General Session - Java Wherever You Are
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May 2008
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This year the Mobility General Session has moved to the 'big-tent'. Find out what all the hoopla is about.
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Working With Java Technology in a Multicore World
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May 2008
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This 2008 JavaOne session discussed some of the advancements made in JSR 166, Concurrency Utilities, which was initiated by Java technology luminary Doug Lea, in light of the upcoming JDK 7 release.
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Visiting Virtual Worlds -- Project Wonderland
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, Virtual worlds are not a thing of the future -- they're here now and in full force.
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Java-Centricity -- Java Technology at the Hub of Your Digital Life
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May 2008
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In this general session, Sun Distinguished Engineer and chief technology officer for software, Bob Brewin, discusses the role Java technology plays in everyone's digital life.
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Learning Web 2.0 Technologies at Java University
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May 2008
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A program where developers can take courses on a variety of Java technologies and other technologies.
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Duke's Choice Awards Winners for 2008
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May 2008
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Each year, the Duke's Choice awards committee invites Java community members to nominate the best and most innovative use of Java technology for recognition. Here are the winners for 2008!
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General Session - JAVA + YOU
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May 2008
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Technology is no longer the domain of an elite priesthood, says Green. Digital consumers are choosing technology and producing content, both in their work and in their personal lives.
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An Overview and Demonstration of OpenSSO and Federation
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May 2008
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2008 JavaOne Conference, A late-afternoon session at CommunityOne focused on OpenSSO at opensso.org, Sun's open web access management project.
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| Welcome to the 2008 JavaOne Conference JAVA+YOU |
May 2008 |
| Rich Green, Sun Microsystems' Executive Vice President of Software, welcomes the Java Community to the 2008 JavaOne Conference and invites their participation. |
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| NetBeans Day at CommunityOne |
May 2008 |
| In only four years, the number of active NetBeans IDE users has increased steadily to 450,000. And an enthusiastic crowd of them attended NetBeans Day at CommunityOne. |
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| CommunityOne: Bringing Communities Together |
May 2008 |
| Last year saw the birth of CommunityOne, a free full-day event that preceded the 2007 JavaOne conference and set the tone for a full week of presentations, demonstrations, and knowledge sharing by and for the open-source community. Celebrating its second appearance, this year's CommunityOne was even bigger and better than last year's version. |