Ok, so the title of this post says it all. I wish I was at JavaOne.
There is an absolute smorgasbord of presentations that I would want to attend. My interests are in, as you may guess, in J2ME and this years JavaOne is chock-a-block full of interesting appetizers, entrées and main meals.
The next best thing to being there? Nothing really. I am on the other side of world (down under actually)...
I am a little ambivalent about using the new mobility pack from Netbeans. The visual mobile designer for creating MIDlets is an interesting concept and looks darn good. But my hesitation stems from my previous forays with drag and drop visual editors for creating desktop applications and I dislike the amount of extra code that these editors put in. You know the ones, where the comments include a...
I recently noticed JSR 209 that promises to migrate Swing UI set to MIDlets, amongst other things. The API is in public review and the last date for the review is 18th July 2005.
Personally, I don’t think I will use it. It seems to me to be a huge package which doesn’t add much in terms of functionality. MIDlet UI’s need to be simple and effective and making them Swing enabled is well, tad...
The finalists in Javamasters 2005 were announced yesterday. There are two categories, Student and Business. A team of experts from Sun and Siemens narrowed the entries to the top 10 in each category.
You now have the chance to pick this years winner in each category. There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs just for voting. Voting ends on July 15th. Vote now!
