On the road to Bandol

The slides for the JavaOne conference are up on Sun’s developer connection site. Here is a small selection of presentations that are worth reading.

First, a few presentations about Java Card and smart cards:

• TS-5686. This is the presentation that I made with Sun about Bandol. High-level, but still informative about the upcoming spec.
• TS-5203. This is Gemalto’s presentation. The most advanced presentation describing the development of future Java Card applications, great for preparing for Bandol.
• TS-0285. The topic of the presentation is more related to authentication using smart cards, but the interesting part is that this is an open source Java Card application.
• TS-5147. This is the presentation about Bekoz, a money transfer scheme for poor countries that I covered already.
• TS-5642. This is a presentation on JSR-177, and more specifically on the APDU smart card interface on mobile phones. Not groundbreaking, except that one of the presenters is from Nokia.

Then, a few presentations are worth reading if you think about Bandol, because they talk about the technologies that we will be using, like AJAX, and mobile Internet:

• TS-5525. How to use AJAX on mobile phones, definitely an interesting topic for Bandol, since mobile phones will be some of our favorite targets.
• TS-6014. Very informative session about AJAX security. Since we don’t want our Bandol applications to have security issues, this is definitely a thing to think about.
• TS-5109. A nice presentation about optimization (mostly for size) of Java ME applications. Of course, since JAR files will also be used in Bandol, this topic becomes important for Java Card. Nothing revolutionary, but an interesting read if you have never given a thought to the topic.

Finally, here are a few presentations that I liked, for various reasons:

• TS-5184. A presentation from China Mobile, which is really nice because it really shows an operator’s strategy (and that particular operator is not small).
• TS-5711. A presentation about static and dynamic code analysis, used for improving the quality of applications. Of course, I love that topic, I strongly believe in its use; in addition, the examples are good, and it’s good to see that Sun uses these technologies for bug hunting.
• TS-5051. The liveliest session I have ever seen in JavaOne. Orange and Sun were trying to explain that developers shall try to produce a smaller number of versions of their applications. This sounds reasonable, but a few developers were strongly opposed to the theory, and repeatedly interrupted the speakers with angry remarks. Very entertaining for the audience, but it must have been very hard on the speakers.
• TS-7498. A very interesting session on Open Source business models by Simon Phipps. It is a bit sad that the slides are not perfectly rendered in the PDF.