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Been There (Done That)



Finally, I been to Sun Techdays – here in Hyderabad. Now I can say.. "Been there".. done that!.. But it was an amazing experience, with more than 1500 people in HICC, Novatel, Hyderabad. Best of all, I was able to see James Gosling. Live. In Person.

They were very exhaustively educating 9 hrs. Although I was keen on Enterprise Track, I was able to sneak some time in JavaFX and Solaris Technologies too.

I stuck myself in:
  • Java EE 6 & GlassFish v3: Paving the path for the future.
  • Designing and Implementing Secure RESTful Web Services.
  • Hands On Lab: Build End-to-End RIA Applications Using JavaFX, Dojo, REST, JPA, and MySQL.
  • Glassfish and JEE 6 Features (Stall at the exhibition).
  • OpenSolaris Installation desk (Okay, I got OpenSolaris on  my vbox).
  • Enterprise Java Persistence with Oracle TopLink.
  • OSGi & Java EE in GlassFish.

I loved ArunGupta's talks about Glassfish. Especially, the OSGi one.

Overall, its was a fascinating experience. I will look forward to tomorrow's schedule. I am so tired, I can barely write this post. Ciao.

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