Remarkably, I got convinced of using (or at least try out) a Google product…
Yes! Maybe unbelievable that the above sentence comes from my hands. But GWT IS REALLY COOL!
(Read further for a summary )
Servlet Spec 3.0
One of the other interesting things on devoxx is the presentation of the coming JCP release for Servlet Spec 3.0.
A short list of changes.
A great addition to Servlets is modularization. Not everything needs to be defined in one web.xml file. But different modules/parts of an application can now have different fragmented
web.xml. In the same time there will be support for Annotations that can define stuff you would normally define the in web.xml file.
e.g.
@WebServlet (value=”/shoppingcart”)
JavaFX in Practice
I just attended ‘JavaFX in practice’ by Richard Bair, Jasper Potts and Martin Brehovsky
at Devoxx’09. JavaFX is a new technology that just came out the 4th of December (let’s say the 1.0 release came out).
JavaFX is in my opinion Sun counterattacking Adobe Flex/Flash. In this way that you can achieve the same thing with Flex/Flash as with JavaFX only it’s much easier for a Java Developer to start with it.
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