Interview with Java Champion Shaun Smith on JPA and EclipseLink.

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Show Notes

News

• Project Jigsaw: Late for the train: The Q&A
• JDK 8 Milestone schedule
• The Coming M2M Revolution: Critical Issues for End-to-End Software and Systems Development
• JSR 355 passed the JCP EC Final Approval Ballot on 13 August 2012
• Vote for GlassFish t-shirt design
• GlassFish on Openshift
• JFokus 2012 Call for Papers is open
• Who do you want to hear in the 100 JavaSpotlight feature interview

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Events

• Sep 3-6, Herbstcampus, Nuremberg, Germany
• Sep 10-15, IMTS 2012 Conference,  Chicago
• Sep 12,  The Coming M2M Revolution: Critical Issues for End-to-End Software and Systems Development,  Webinar
• Sep 30-Oct 4, JavaONE, San Francisco
• Oct 3-4, Java Embedded @ JavaONE, San Francisco
• Oct 15-17, JAX London
• Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara
• Oct 22-23, Freescale Technology Forum - Japan, Tokyo
• Nov 2-3, JMagreb, Morocco
• Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Belgium

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Feature Interview

Shaun Smith is a Principal Product Manager for Oracle TopLink and an active member of the Eclipse community. He's Ecosystem Development Lead for the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink) and a committer on the Eclipse EMF Teneo and Dali Java Persistence Tools projects. He’s currently involved with the development of JPA persistence for OSGi and Oracle TopLink Grid, which integrates Oracle Coherence with Oracle TopLink to provide JPA on the grid.

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Mail Bag

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What’s Cool

• James Gosling and GlassFish (youtube video)

• Every time I see a piece of C code I need to port, my heart dies a little. Then I port it to 1/4 as much Java, and feel better. Tweet by Charles Nutter

• #JavaFX 2.2 is really looking like a great alternative to Flex. SceneBuilder + NetBeans 7.2 = Flash Builder replacement. Tweet by Danny Kopping

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