Java One 2011 last day (6th of October)

1. Java Community Keynote
Video is available here.

2. Java EE Cluster Management Strategies by Chris Kasso (Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle) and Jennifer Chou (Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle) and Thomas Mueller (Principal Member of Technical Staff Oracle)
GlassFish development team members explained the main challenges while building Java EE cluster. Interesting talk. Could not find the slides.
Main topics and quotes:

Cluster management life cycle challenges:
- Configuration
- Monitoring
- Failures

Management strategies:
Centralized configuration management - data replication, highly available storage, operation replication (deploy,update). Server is NOT processing user requests.
Standalone instances - User or the 3rd party system do the work. Additional work vs freedom.
Distributed management - Master + "Standby masters". All servers are processing requests (Resin).

Instance management :
Centralized per-host controller talk to OS to start/stop services.

3. CDI Today and Tomorrow (open panel)
Panel was lead by Arun Gupta from GlassFish team. Panel members:
Pete Muir, RedHat, Spec Lead for CDI 1.1
Sivakumar Thyagarajan, GlassFish team
Davis Blevins, Apache OpenWebBeans
Reza Rahman, CanDI

Nothing really new. JBoss Weld will be taken as a reference implementation for the CDI 1.1

Quotes:
All existing CDI implementations already have a JavaSE mode
But CDI won't be in JDK
CDI 1.1 would have SE mode specified

4. Serialization: Tips, Traps, and Techniques by Steve Poole (Software Engineer IBM)
Steven is a JDK team member. A good metaphor was used to explain serialization tips - human teleportation.
Still looking for the slides :(
I'll pay more attention to this topics later on.

5. Java EE and Spring/MVC Shoot-out by Reza Rahman and Rohit Kelapure (IBM)
The drums of war thunder once again. From the other way around a good summary of JavaEE vs Spring features in one presentation. So it's up to you to decide which one is better for your particular problem. But I still don't understand why JSF is better than any of the Spring MVC presentation. You are free to have  your own opinion.

Slides are here.

 

That above is the last part of my JavaOne 2011 review posts, please contact me with your feedback.