Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

You want to know more about the framework behind CATS, the soccer betting tool which just won the W-Jax developer challenge? Take a look on a video which presents the advantages of Canoo’s RIA technology in a nutshell:

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This is just a quick note about the WJAX Java developer conference that take place last week in Munich.

The conference program was quite balanced and beside the main stream topics about SOA (ServiceOrientedArchitektur – represented by the SOACon conference), Spring, Application Security and OSGi there was a huge number of different topics, which were addressed by several talks.

Most interesting from my point of view were following sessions:

• Keynote from Jonas Jacobi: Re-architecting the Web with HTML 5 Communication.
• Talk from Karsten Lentzsch: Efficient design of swing UI’s.
• Talk from Angelika Langer: Java programming in the age of multicore.
• Talk from Dierk Koenig: RESTful JEE with Grails.

Canoo was exhibiting on a booth, which gave the great opportunity to present and talk about our products UltraLightClient (ULC), the just released language application for the IPhone (using canoo.net), our demo for the new JavaFX platform and fancy UltraLightClient / Swing rich client applications. In addition Canoo members used the presence to keep in touch with existing costumers, contact new ones or presented the company to potential new staff members.

Canoo Online Quiz

All the visitors on the booth and all other interested software developers had and still have the possibility to join an online quiz. Its possible to win an iPod touch or one of ten ‘Groovy in Action’ books. The quiz can be found at www.canoo.com/quiz and will end at the 30.11.2008.

Dierk König, Canoo fellow and author of the ‘Groovy in Action’ book, was holding a groovy workshop and was giving a talk about RESTful JEE with Grails.

Here are the slides of the recent W-JAX workshop “Von Java zu Groovy” by Dierk König, Johannes Link, and Tammo Freese. The slides are in German:

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I just heard via Dierk that Daniel Adelhardt of Sun Germany mentioned Canoo’s Java FX sample app Music Pinboard in one of his sessions.

Cool!

Groovy is this year’s Java shooting star. At JAX 2007 the open source project was awarded the JAX innovation award. See also our blog entry.

At the time, Sebastian Meyen interviewed Canoo’s senior software engineer and Groovy committer, Dierk König. The video is now available (in German):

Link: sevenload.com

Attending W-JAX 2007?
Dierk König will be holding a keynote at the upcoming W-JAX 2007.

See the Canoo event page for details.

We just updated the Canoo events page and I would like to point to Dierk König’s impressive Autumn 07 schedule at: http://www.canoo.com/events.html

Dierk will be speaking at:

• iX Workshop in Zurich, Munich and Frankfurt.
• Grails eXchange 2007.
• W-JAX in Munich.

If you’re attending any of these events, stop by and say hello to Dierk…

He recently wrote a series of articles on Grails for iX magazine (in German).