This general session concentrated major news about JDK (desktop?), Java EE, and Java for Mobile and Embedded. Mark Reinhold basically explained the roadmap for JDK releases, which will follow Plan B. This means that there will be a release in 2011 with the features that are ready, and another release in 2012 with the features […]
Live from JavaOne: Identity for Services in the Cloud
The next talk was about Identity for Services in the Cloud, by Jiandong Guo and Symon Chang. Their focus was to promote their favorite solution, which has been around for a while, and whose objective is to clearly separate authentication from authorization using standards. Their scheme is quite classical: The client gets a SAML token […]
Live from JavaOne: Web Widgets and MSA
I continue my buzzword morning. After RESTful, I am getting information about Web Widgets for Java ME. The idea is to introduce a new application model for Java ME for Web applications. What exists today is LWUIT XHTML component, and JSR 290, which is at the final draft stage (more at keynote, according to the […]
Live from JavaOne: RESTful identity services
That one sounded very good at first, mixing two buzzwords that I wanted to learn about. Well, that was a half disappointment. I got a good introduction about RESTful services, but most of the presentations actually focused on mapping a contacts (information about people) service into a REST interface. It was useful to me because […]
Almost live from JavaOne: Trends for Mobile Java
I attended three more sessions that I didn’t cover in specific posts today. One of them, by Terence Barr, about rich applications and services for the mobile masses; an advertising session from Blackberry about their developer offer, and of course, the opening keynote from Thomas Kurian (EVP from Oracle, in charge of Java?). These sessions […]
Live from JavaOne: The Next Big Language on the JVM
In a very varied day, I continued with a little geek recreation, in a session from OpenGamma‘s Stephen Colebourne, wondering what language may take on Java in the coming years as future for the JVM. This presentation was actually very good, and made even better by the fact that it was not delivered by an […]
Live from JavaOne: Making the Business Case for Security
This session is about selling security internally. This was my first session from Oracle OpenWorld, by Oracle people, and I expected it to be from the database’s point of view. It was true, but the part I liked most was in fact from a business guy, with no relationship to databases. The database view was […]
Live from JavaOne: Nokia’s UI for SMS services
So, here we are; I am in San Francisco, sitting on the first JavaOne organized by Oracle. It is actually organized together with the Oracle Develop and OracleWorld . The event is huge, occupying alll the major hotels around Moscone Center and Union Square. And of course, this means that there is an opportunity to […]
Twitter and the Security Imbalance
The problems of Twitter with their OAuth implementation have made the headlines, and a full analysis can be found on Ars Technica. The (very) basic idea of the first issue highlighted in this article is as follows: Twitter provides “secret keys” (more like API keys) to developers. When a key is compromised, it is revoked, […]
I Hate Loving Google
Fundamentally, Google is not very lovable company for me. In particular, they make their money from exploiting a model of interactions between consumers and vendors that does not really correspond to my ideals. However, in many aspects, Google has been a trendsetter in a very positive way. Two examples came very recently. First, Google decided […]