JavaOne: Parleys.com, Spring Vs. Java EE and HTML5 tooling
- by delabassee
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