Parleys.com, a 2012 Duke's Choice Award winner, is an E-Learning platform that host content from different sources (conferences, JUGs meetings, etc.). There is a lot of technical content available for online but also offline consumption, including many sessions on Java EE. Parleys has just released, for free, all the Devoxx 2011 sessions (video and slides sync'ed!).
From a technical point of view, Parleys.com is interesting as they have switched from Spring to Java EE 6 to avoid being locked in a proprietary framework. During the GlassFish Community BoF, Stephan Janssen (Parleys.com and Devoxx founder) also presented how GlassFish is used to support 2000 concurrent Parleys users over a cluster of 2 GlassFish instances.
Talking about Java EE and/or Spring, Harshad Oak has posted an update on the 'Spring Vs. Java EE' panel discussion that took place on Tuesday. As Arun said standards such as Java EE does not necessarily refrain innovation: "JBoss Forge & Arquillian from RedHat are great examples of innovation in the JavaEE community. Standardization is important but innovation does continue even within that framework."
Simplicity, productivity along with HTML5 are the driving themes of Java EE 7. In terms of simplicity and productivity, the developer experience can also be improved by the tooling. Every NetBeans release comes with a large set of improvements, the just released NetBeans 7.3 beta is no exception.
The goal of ‘NB 7.3’s Project Easel’ is to improve HTML5 development, something that will be handy for Java EE 7 developers. Project Easel can, for example, communicate directly to Chrome's WebKit engine, this feature was shown during Sunday's Technical Keynote at the end of the Java EE section. In this beta release, Chrome and the embedded JavaFX browser are the only supported browsers but the NetBeans team plan to add support, over time, for other WebKit based browsers.
NetBans 7.3 beta
NetBeans 7.3 screenscasts
Today (i.e. Wednesday 3rd) is also the final exhibition day, so make sure to visit the Java EE and the GlassFish pods on the Java DEMOgrounds (Hilton Grand Ballroom, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm).
Finally, here are some Java EE and GlassFish related activities worth attending today if you are at JavaOne :
Wednesday October 3rd
Time
Title
Location
8:30-9:30am
What's New in Servlet 3.1: An Overview
Parc 55 Mission
8:30-9:30am
Bean Validation 1.1: What's New Under the Hood
Parc 55Cyril Magnin II/III
10:00-11:00am
JSR 353: Java API for JSON Processing
Parc 55 Mission
10:00-12:00pm
Tutorial : Integrating Your Service into the GlassFish PaaS Platform
Parc 55 Devisidero
11:30-12:30pm
What's New in JSF: A Complete Tour of JSF 2.2
Parc 55Cyril Magnin I
11:30-12:30pm
Best of Both Worlds: Java Persistence with NoSQL and SQL
Parc 55 Mission
1:00-2:00pm
Sharding Middleware to Achieve Elasticity and High Availability in the Cloud
Parc 55Market Street
1:00-2:00pm
Pimp My RESTful Java Applications
Parc 55Cyril Magnin I
3:00-4:00pm
Migrating Spring to Java EE
Parc 55Cyril Magnin II/III
4:30-5:30pm
JavaEE.Next(): Java EE 7, 8, and Beyond
Parc 55Cyril Magnin II/III
4:30-5:30pm
HTML5 WebSocket and Java
Parc 55Cyril Magnin I
4:30-5:30pm
Easy Middleware for Your Embedded Device
Nikko Ballroom II/III
