Java Goodies from SUN JUG Support

Thanks to SUN JUG Support for Java Goodies, we have just received them.
Our member are looking forward to next CongoJUG meeting.

CongoJUG is already in SUN's General community incubator

I am very happy to annonce you that, Congo Java User Groupe will soon be included officialy in SUN's Java User Group Community hosted on Java.net. We are already in SUN's General community incubator.

Bellow Eric's message.
Eric is an active member of JUG Comunity :

Hi Jean-Françcois,

I did already approve your project and place it in the General community incubator, as that follows our standard approval process
for new projects.

The next step is for the JUG Community Leaders to review the project for inclusion to the JUG Community, which is all
but a formality at this point considering the level of maturity your JUG already displays. When that occurs they will
move your project into the JUG Community space on java.net.

I would recommend that you log in to your project and begin to fill it with the content you'd like to share with your
fellow JUG members.

Best of fortune to you,

Eric Renaud

Oracle becomes Java platform owner !

Over my concerns about Oracle's intentions, I disagree with Dennis's article
Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe interpretation for three
reasons.
Oracle will be great opening to win the confidence of the people. I am not convinced that the situation would have been better with IBM or Google. Many Oracle's competitors like IBM, SAP, HP have several products based on Java technologies. Oracle may face engthy antitrust prosecution if they close and costly platform.
And Java is now under the GPL. Nothing prevents IBM, Google or any other company to take this code and to change the platform by themselves.
Finally, Oracle already have a JVM with BEA acquisition year ego and did not need to control more Java.
I think Oracle acquisition seem like an attack against competitor Dell or HP. Oracle is buying mainly servers and OS to complete his integration.
(Credit to my colleague Frédéric D.)

I have just create CongoJUG a Java User Group

Congo Java User Group is the community intented to bring together Java programmers, Java users in Brazzaville Congo, Africa.
We aim to meet other local Java developers to talk and share ideas, thoughts and best practices about code, architecture, and innovation.
We also create study group for Java certification, and articles geared towards Java beginners.

Both beginners and pros are welcome!

Subscribe : congojug@googlegroups.com (French and English)
Our site is in progress !!

Conversation with James Gosling, the founder of Java Technology

We told about my project to start a Java User Group in Congo (Africa).
Sorry for the sound output.

JavaOne 2008

It was my first JavaOne edition: great experience! I hope to come back one day again. The demo of JavaFX widgets from desktop to web was amazing. The most interest session was AJAX Push by Jean-François Arcand and Ted Goddard. I invited Jean-François in Quebec to presente us Ajax Push. I hope it will be possible.

We are curious to see how Ajax Push can support business process.

I describe my day-to-day and prefered sessions in my french blog : On route vers JavaOne 2008