JavaOne 2008 Coverage - Day 3

May 9th, 2008 at 4:23 am by PSAR Arnhem Gerben Derksen

Third day of JavaOne and still going strong. I did not see much of the San Francisco city yet. There’s no time. Breakfast at JavaOne, lunch at JavaOne, sessions at JavaOne, a quick dinner and back to JavaOne to blog for a while. so this week is all about Java(One).

Intel opened the day. Intel? What has Intel to do with Java? Well they build platforms to run Java. And they do that by the tock-tick model. At the tock they launch new, better and faster hardware. At the tick they make it smaller and more power efficient. Intel also works together with SUN on projects to make software benefit from Intel’s hardware features. For example: They work on the next JVM to make it faster on Intel’s platform. At the moment they have reached a 68% performance increase. (I think for some parts of the JVM) A spinning globe (YES, Nasa World Wind!! :razz: ) visualized the performance increase.

Today’s sessions:

Advanced Web application security
This session was all about Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). The speakers (Jeremiah Grossman; Joe Walker) explained how to detect and reduce the change of an attack. Nowadays 90% of the sites are not well protected against CSRF or XSS attacks.

The third leg of SOA: Identity
The bottom line of this session was to decouple security from applications. (services) It’s better to dynamically decorate service request with security. SUN has a ‘METRO’ product that can help you do the trick.

Java Platform Performance: Case studies in Bottleneck Identification and removal
I have to admit, this session was so boring I couldn’t keep focusing. But, if you want to see this bad presentation then go get it from the JavaOne website. (after the conference has ended)

Designing Graphical Model-Driven Applications: Lego MindStorm
This session was one big demo that (almost) succeeded. After drawing an UML diagram a Domain Object Model was generated. This Domain object Model was coupled to temples and generated code in Netbeans. With the Visual Library of Netbeans an UI was made to write a program with the generated code. The graphical designed application was uploaded to a Lego Mindstorms robot. The robot walked and…. fell. Very cool techniques!!

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One Response to “JavaOne 2008 Coverage - Day 3”

  1. arjen van schie Says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    I also noted on Intels blog their emphasis on their performance improvements. But they seem to fail to back their statements up. Of course I can believe they made some improvements on some benchmarks, but which and how representative are those for the typical JEE application ?

    In other news I found this on Sun, where a new performance update is announced (just before JavaOne) and where they benchmarked it on an intel machine realizing a big improvement for that benchmark.

    http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/05/08/intel-keynote-at-javaone/
    http://blogs.sun.com/dagastine/entry/jdk_6_update_5_p
    http://blogs.sun.com/dagastine/entry/sun_java_on_intel_delivers1

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