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Once again, I got a blogging pass to JavaOne—my fifth year as the intrepid reporter at JavaOne. I'll be reporting what I find interesting and surprising, and I'll obnoxiously point out when something turned out the way I predicted in prior years as intrepid JavaOne reporter. Here are some initial impressions from the pre-conference day.

Java EE 6 has three different ways of defining “beans” that are “managed” in one way or another. In this blog, I go over them and ask if we really need @javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean or should just use @javax.inject.Named.

The latest version of Alice, now in beta, can be programmed in Java. In this blog, I describe the process that I use for producing Alice assignments for my CS1 class. Students program in Java using Netbeans, and instead of seeing boring console output, they bring the Alice characters to life.