FISL is the most important event about free software in Brazil. People from different countries come to attend sessions about free software such as Linux, PHP and others. As Java is starting to get more attention from the open source and free software community, there will be some talks about it in the main track. Besides that, SouJava, the largest JUG in Brazil, which I am proud to help to...
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UPDATE: Brazilian Portuguese translation / tradução para o português do Brasil no JavaFree
To begin with, I must congratulate the JSR-220 EG for their braveness. I can't think of any spec in the JCP that has been changed in such a dramatic way as this one. Linda said during the last JavaOne she intended to kill deployment descriptors and to simplify the programming model as...