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• TS-4928 - Creating Simple to Advanced Swing and SWT Layouts Easily with MiGLayout
  • Presentation Description: MiGLayout^? makes complex layouts easy and normal layouts one-liners. This technical session shows how incredibly easy it is to create beautiful, platform-appropriate layouts. MiGLayout^? is probably the only layout manager you’ll need: It directly replaces almost all other layout managers with its vast feature set, which resembles CSS. The presentation starts with the simplest of layouts, which needs almost no layout constraints, and moves quickly toward more-advanced layout techniques. Where appropriate, it includes a comparison with other layout managers, such as Karsten Lentsch’s JGoodies FormLayout^?. You will learn how to enable resolution independence in your applications today, leveraging MiG^? Layout’s automatic support for HiDPI^? displays. The speaker promises that when you are leaving this session, you will rather reimplement a panel by using MiG^? Layout than edit a single GridBagConstraint^?.
  • Date and Time: TBD
  • Room: TBD
  • Presented by: Mikael Grev

• TS-6385 - Integration Profile for GlassFish^?™ Project v3
  • Presentation Description: The landscape of traditional application development is littered with applications designed and implemented to run on an island and be deployed into an operational environment requiring coordinated management and communication among multiple applications. Two significant architectural trends have emerged to address this problem: modularity and service-oriented architecture. Generally speaking, modularity provides a clean way to address dependency concerns for an application while providing a level of isolation between application modules. SOA provides a blueprint for the description of service contracts and a communication contract between a service consumer and a provider. Taken together, these two technologies provide a strong foundation for an application integration platform.
    
    This session examines the use of GlassFish^?™ project v3 and Java™ Business Integration (JBI) as a modular SOA platform for application integration. The module system at the core of v3 serves as a lightweight kernel for hosting applications and application containers. The JBI implementation in GlassFish^? project v3 can be used from within these application containers to facilitate interapplication and intercontainer communication in an interoperable manner. Composite application developers are free to choose the domain language and technology to fit their specific problems.
  • Date and Time: TBD
  • Room: TBD
  • Presented by Keith Babo and Andreas Egloff

• HOL-6998 - JavaFX Applications: Rich Client Applications with Cool Effects
  • Track: Hands-On Labs; Rich Media and Content
  • JavaFX^?™ technology has taken the Java™ technology world by storm, because its declarative style and compositional programming behavior made it ideal for designing richer GUIs than was possible for a traditional programmer on the Java platform using different layout managers, callbacks, and so on. Because the JavaFX^? programming language is evolving, this Hands-on Lab starts with a quick overview of the language, looks at some of the changes since last year, and covers the newer deployment features. It also looks at how to design some really rich applications by using scenegraphs, animation, media, and other effects and then Java OpenGL^? (JOGL), the Java 3D API, and other libraries on the Java platform. After attending this lab, attendees will be able to walk away with a very good idea of how to use JavaFX^? technology for designing compelling rich client applications that incorporate graphics and other effects such as media and animation.
  • Date/Time: TBD
  • Presented By: Sridhar Reddy and Raghavan Srinivas

• LAB-3410, Metro: Try Out Simple and Interoperable Web Services
  • Track: Hands-On Labs; Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
  • Presentation Description: Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack. You can use it for every type of web service, from simple to reliable, secured, and transacted web services that interoperate with .NET services. Metro bundles stable versions of the JAX-WS (Java™ API for XML Web Services) reference implementation and WSIT (Web Services Interoperability Technology).JAX-WS is a fundamental technology for developing SOAP-based and RESTful Java technology-based web services. WSIT enables secure, reliable interoperability between Java technology-based web services and Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation. This Hands-on Lab starts by developing a simple Metro web service and showing how to enhance this web service with Metro features such as reliability and security. The next part of the lab enables a web service client with Metro security features and has it interoperate with the previously built service. The lab shows the ease of development the NetBeans^?™ 6.0 release provides for achieving this. The lab uses the NetBeans^? 6.0 release to modify and configure both the web service and the client, using Sun’s GlassFish^?™ project application server as the container. The lab uses WS-Reliability and WS-Security as examples of Metro’s secure, reliable features.
  • Date and Time: TBD
  • Presented by: Carol McDonald^? and Fabian Ritzmann

• BOF-6620 - Robot Fusion: Mobile Robots and Sun™ SPOTs Collaborate to Hunt Humans
  • Description: In the demonstration task, a robot swarm moving in a networked array of Sun SPOT sensors detects a moving warm-bodied object and pelts it with soft foam disks. This presentation shows some of the details of the foam disk gun, the robot platform, and the system architecture. (More details here)*
  • Date and Time:
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  • Presented by: Bruce Boyes (Systronix) and Jim Wright (RoboWright^?)

• Session-S297127 - TrackBot™, Greenfoot, and Sun™ SPOT: Simulated and Physical Robots for Education from Upper Grade School to University Level
  • * This session presents the work the speaker and his colleagues are doing to combine a small, affordable, mobile robot (TrackBot) and an easy-to-use Java IDE and simulation environment usable even by grade school students (Greenfoot) and a small wireless Java™ technology-based controller with sensors (Sun™ SPOT [Small Programmable Object Technology], www.sunspotworld.com).*
  • Date and Time: Monday May 05
  • Room:
  • Presented by: Bruce Boyes (Systronix) and Shawn Silverman?

• • Hands-On Labs; Rich Media and Content
  • JavaFX™ technology has taken the Java™ technology world by storm, because its declarative style and compositional programming behavior made it ideal for designing richer GUIs than was possible for a traditional programmer on the Java platform using different layout managers, callbacks, and so on. Because the JavaFX^? programming language is evolving, this Hands-on Lab starts with a quick overview of the language, looks at some of the changes since last year, and covers the newer deployment features. It also looks at how to design some really rich applications by using scenegraphs, animation, media, and other effects and then Java OpenGL^? (JOGL), the Java 3D API, and other libraries on the Java platform. After attending this lab, attendees will be able to walk away with a very good idea of how to use JavaFX^? technology for designing compelling rich client applications that incorporate graphics and other effects such as media and animation.
  • Date/Time: TBD
  • * Sridhar Reddy and Raghavan Srinivas*

• • Track:Hands-On Labs; Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
  • Presentation Description:Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack. You can use it for every type of web service, from simple to reliable, secured, and transacted web services that interoperate with .NET services. Metro bundles stable versions of the JAX-WS (Java™ API for XML Web Services) reference implementation and WSIT (Web Services Interoperability Technology).JAX-WS is a fundamental technology for developing SOAP-based and RESTful Java technology-based web services. WSIT enables secure, reliable interoperability between Java technology-based web services and Microsoft’s Windows Communication Foundation. This Hands-on Lab starts by developing a simple Metro web service and showing how to enhance this web service with Metro features such as reliability and security. The next part of the lab enables a web service client with Metro security features and has it interoperate with the previously built service. The lab shows the ease of development the NetBeans^?™ 6.0 release provides for achieving this. The lab uses the NetBeans^? 6.0 release to modify and configure both the web service and the client, using Sun’s GlassFish^?™ project application server as the container. The lab uses WS-Reliability and WS-Security as examples of Metro’s secure, reliable features.
  • Date and Time:TBD
  • Presented by Carol McDonald^? and Fabian Ritzmann

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• TS-4721 - Implementing Java EE Applications, Using Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3 Technology: Real-World Tips, Tricks, and New Design Patterns
  • Presentation Description: The new Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3 specification makes enterprise applications development easier, cleaner, and faster. As with any other new technology, however, there are always new tricks to be learned and pitfalls to be avoided. This session presents the speakers’ experience with building real-world applications using EJB 3 technology. The session uses the lessons learned in this experience to show techniques, tools, tips, and tricks to make good use of session-beans-, entity-beans-, and message-driven-beans-compliant objects, discussing the problems and pitfalls encountered. It presents a series of refactoring actions you can perform to better use new features in EJB 3 technology, with real-world examples. The session also presents a revision of the traditional EJB technology design patterns, showing the role they played when release 3 was being developed and presenting new design patterns that arose with this new version. The goal of this session is to share the results of this experience with other developers, discussing the outcome of using EJB 3 technology, the benefits, the drawbacks, and the techniques for building a successful EJB 3 technology-based application.
  • Date and Time: 08-MAY-07 10:50
  • Room: Hall E - 134
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  • Date and Time: 11-MAY-07 13:30
  • Room: Room 105
  • Presented by Fabiane Bizinella Nardon (JavaTools Community) and Edgar Silva (Project Greenbox/JavaTools Community)

• TS-7497, Dynamic Local Minigrids
  • Presentation Description: Java technology can make sure you benefit from the company you keep. Someone sits next to you at this conference and pops open a laptop, and suddenly your application starts working faster. You head to lunch and want to show your friends the presentation you are working on. They don't have to gather around your laptop. All they have to do is open up theirs, and as you move to the next slide, their view of the presentation changes as well. What technology should you be paying attention to? You can find out immediately from your social network of developers. Find out which APIs developers working on similar project like to leverage. Even when you aren't on the Internet, you can take advantage of the machines around you. In this session, you learn how to program dynamic minigrids for your desktop Java technology-based applications by using zero-configuration networking. Code examples demonstrate how to add the coolness factor of ad hoc grids to your application. The presentation covers advertising, discovering, and connecting to services.

• • Date and Time: TBD
  • Presented by Daniel Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking

• TS-1916, Open-Source Java Projects: Meet the Sausage Makers Panel

• • Date and Time: TBD
  • Presented by Daniel Steinberg, Dim Sum Thinking

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• LAB-7230, Project Sun SPOT, Robots, and Java Technology
  • Track: Cool Stuff, Java ME
  • Presentation Description: The possibilities and potential applications of wireless embedded devices are limited only by one's imagination. Environmental monitoring, asset tracking, proactive health care, intelligent agriculture, and military surveillance are just a handful of applications that can be revolutionized by the use of such devices. However, the current state of the art makes developing for these platforms a tedious chore--it often involves learning unfamiliar languages and tools, and there is little or no debugging support.

    Sun Labs researchers working on Project Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) have created a small, wireless battery-powered device that provides a versatile, Java technology-based platform for developing embedded applications. This commercially available platform comes equipped with a 32-bit ARM processor and an IEEE 802.15.4 radio. Stackable boards include application-specific sensors and actuators such as accelerometers, light detectors, temperature sensors, LEDs, push buttons, and general I/O pins. These devices can be duty-cycled to run for months on a single charge of their rechargeable battery. By supporting application development and debugging via standard tools and IDEs, this platform opens up the world of embedded programming to a much broader class of developers.

    This hands-on lab is an extended version of a very popular lab from last year. This year the people giving the lab have partnered with Systronix to make it even more fun and interesting. Systronix has developed a rugged, affordable chassis for Sun SPOTs. A SPOT just clips into the base, and you now have a mobile SPOT robot. The chassis uses rubber tracks (like a bulldozer), so it can turn in its own radius and easily climb over typical obstacles such as power cords. The platform includes sites for additional sensors and local controllers. The latter provide for "digital reflexes": if the robot is about to collide with an object, it can stop in response to local sensor data without a command from the robot brain. Cockroaches have similar capabilities: sensors wired directly to their legs provide quick response for avoiding predators.

    This lab teaches participants how to write applications using the Sun SPOT platform and the robot chassis. You learn how to work with various sensors, use the radio to communicate between multiple SPOTs, and create an autonomous vehicle. Each participant has access to two Sun SPOT devices and a robot chassis throughout the session. The participants must be familiar with the Java programming language, but prior hardware experience is not required.

  • Date and Time: Wednesday May 09 9:35 AM - 11:35 AM
  • Presented by Eric Arseneau, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Derek White, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• BOF-4834 - Designing Self-Evolving and Self-Configuring Java EE Applications
  • Presentation Description: Deploying a Java EE application should be as easy as copying your ear or war file to your application server deployment folder. In the real world, however, the deployment of an enterprise application usually becomes a daunting task, with several error-prone manual steps like installing additional libraries, dealing with physical paths, running database creation scripts, etc. This scenario becomes even more complicated when upgrading an enterprise application, since it is necessary to identify the current deployed version and update libraries, upgrade the database, and so on. Self-evolving and self-configuring applications are applications that are prepared to detect the external environment and automatically evolve and configure themselves, executing automatically the steps that would be necessary to either perform an initial installation or to upgrade from any arbitrary version to any other arbitrary version. This session will present the tools and techniques that can be used to design a self-evolving and self-configuring Java EE application. It will cover how to automatically upgrade the database schema and data, how to enforce new integrity constraints created for a new version, how to deal with physical paths, how to automatically install external libraries, and how to solve other common problems. The goal of this session is to share the lessons learned when deploying real world Java EE applications in complex environments, aiming to share the techniques that can make the deployment process easier and automated, eliminating the room for human error.
  • Date and Time: 10-MAY-07 20:55
  • Room: Hall E - 134
  • Presented by: Fabiane Bizinella Nardon (JavaTools Community) and Daniel López (JavaTools Community)

• BOF-3487 - @Plugin World:Creating your Own Lightweight OSGi-based Framework for Building and Managing Pluggable Swing Applications
  • Presentation Description: This BOF session explores the concept of developing and managing pluggable desktop Swing applications driven by a different OSGi-based framework. It showcases a straightforward approach for developing your own lightweight solution on top of an OSGi implementation: the Knopflerfish project. This provides an alternative to the heavyweight approach used by the RCP-like solutions (Eclipse and NetBeans^?). JSR 175 (A Metadata Facility for the Java™ Programming Language) is used to simplify the construction of Java desktop service-oriented applications. For instance, a simple @Plugin annotation creates a plugin. With a lightweight approach you can create robust, service-oriented desktop applications without needing specific tools like those that Eclipse and NetBeans^? provide for building on top of their respective platforms. This BOF is an opportunity to understand the OSGi specification and how to benefit from it in the Java desktop development world. Attendees will learn practical techniques and tips on how to implement their own plugin development environment for making the best use of the OSGi. To get the maximum benefit from this session, participants should have experience with Java development.
  • Date and Time: TBD
  • Presented by: Fabiano Cruz and Marcelo Mayworm

• BOF-5945 - Mobile & Embedded Applicaton Developers Fishbowl
  • Presentation Description: You use a lot of open-source software every day. For most developers on the Java platform, this open-source software is critical to you, your job, and your organization. But what can you do to ensure a long life for this software that you need and love? The participants in this panel discussion draw from their experience on high-visibility projects, company payrolls, and communities. These developers have all taken part in, led, and/or benefited from open-source projects related to Java technology. If you are a project lead who has open sourced or is considering open sourcing your project, the panel will help you understand how others have integrated OS projects into their workflow, including mistakes they have made and surprises they have discovered.
  • Date and Time:
  • Presented by: Roger Brinkley, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• BOF-1891 - SPOTBot: Turning a SunSPOT^? into a Rugged and Affordable Mobile Robot
  • Presentation Description: Sun SPOTs are small, battery-operated wireless sensors (see http://www.sunspotworld.com). SPOTs provide the basics needed by a mobile robot, lacking only a suitable chassis and some additional sensors. Designed with an I/O expansion connector, they include an 802.15.4 radio, so they can communicate with each other as well as with the growing family of compatible 802.15.4 devices. This BOF session, which shows you how a SPOT can be made into a rugged, affordable mobile robot, builds on the open-source projects in the java.net robotics community, at https://robotics.dev.java.net/.

    There are low-cost, fragile mobile robots that get tripped up by such common obstacles as rugs and power cords. There are also expensive mobile robots that can deal with common household or office obstacles. But there are virtually no low-cost rugged robots. The SPOTBot targets this market niche.

    It starts with an available tracked (that is, caterpillar-drive) robot chassis about 130 millimeters wide, 175 millimeters long, and 50 millimeters high. The sturdy plastic chassis includes two DC motors with gear reduction, durable rubber tracks, and a holder for 6 AA batteries (the SPOTBot uses NiMH^? rechargeables). A tracked platform has several advantages over a typical three-wheel caster system. This tracked chassis easily climbs steep inclines; crawls over power cords and computer cables; and can handle high-pile carpet, doorway thresholds, transitions between hard-surface and carpeted areas, and similar obstacles. Differential steering is simple and allows the robot to turn within its own length.

    The presentation shows the design of a circuit board for the robot that includes motor drive electronics and basic collision-avoidance and navigational sensors. These sensors include sonar and infrared range finders as well as human-body detection. Then it shows all the software needed, from the device driver level up to the abstract API level.

    Iff 11th-hour programming goes well, we will include a demonstration of a small swarm of SPOTBots exhibiting simple flocking behavior while avoiding obstacles and exploring their environment. It also shows SPOTBots seeking out human beings and attempting to follow them around.

    The SPOTBot is much more than a toy--it is capable of carrying a kilogram and can mount other sensors such as a color camera. With its advanced Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)/CLDC CPU and wireless radio, a SPOTBot is well suited to university-level educational and research use.

    This BOF session assumes that you have at least a year of experience with the Java programming language, along with basic knowledge of common robotic transducers such as brushed DC motors, sonar range finders, and infrared sensors.

    At the end of this session, you will know how to go about adding your own sensors and actuators to the base-level Sun SPOT module and how to write the code to utilize them. And you will have a good idea of the capabilities of the SPOTBot.

  • Date and Time: Tuesday May 08 9:00-9:50PM
  • Presented by: Bruce Boyes, Systronix Inc, and Arshan Poursohi, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• BOF-0904 - "Java SE Media: Take 2"
  • Presentation Description: "Your media hops from device to device, but why doesn’t the code that you use to work with that media do the same? Java Platform, Standard Edition (”Java SE”) should be the ideal language for working with media: it runs on devices large and small, and the language design is particularly well-suited to deal with intrinsically complex domains, like media. Yet other technologies dominate media production, distribution, and presentation. This BoF will lay out a comprehensive new vision for what Java media can be and should be, and how to get there from here. Starting out with what functionality is needed for media applications in the Web 2.0 era, the session will move on to consider why current libraries have failed to address the needs of media application developers, will identify specific traits that a forward-looking Java media library needs, and will explore the idea of who’s going to create this. The session is meant to kick off a lengthy Q&A with like-minded attendees."
  • Date and Time: TBD
  • Presented by: Chris Adamson

• BOF-2794 - A New Date and Time API for Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) * Presentation Description: For years, developers have been facing problems with java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar. Zero-index-based months; performance and thread-safety issues; unpredictability; the difficulty of specifying and changing DST rules; and the lack of representations for other top-level concepts such as non-time-zone dates or times, durations, periods, and intervals are just some of the complaints of the community since the day Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) was released. A new JSR has been submitted to provide a new and improved date and time API for the Java platform. Built on the lessons learned from the first two APIs, it will provide a more advanced and comprehensive model for date and time manipulation. This session examines this new API and its main concepts and features and shows code for handling common problems that are hard to solve with the existing classes. It also explains how code that uses the platform classes can be migrated and what impact this JSR will have on several other APIs. By the end of this talk, attendees will be able to understand the need for the new API, how to use it, and how it influences their current and future projects.
  • Date and Time: TBD
  • Presented by: Michael Santos, Summa Technologies do Brasil; Stephen Colebourne, Self-employed

• BOF-8601-SOA-A Real expeiance
  • Presentation Description: "I was part of building a large scale lending application on SOA. We have faced lots of challanges while designing, building and successfully delivering the application. In this session, I will provide a case study of building a real-time application that incorporates this emerging trend. Some of the hard design and development challenges we faced were related to modeling workflow interactions between services, managing change analysis, and contract specification. In completing the project, we have learned a lot, and the session includes a few tips on that".
  • Date and Time, Room: Esplanade 304/306 Date: 10-MAY-07 Start Time: 20:55
  • Presented by * Amitav Chakravartty, Tavant Technologies Inc

• BOF-1613 , Using Java Management Extensions (JMX) for Monitoring Widely Distributed Networks
  • Presentation Description: Distributed network services such as JXTA technology P2P^?, grids, and web services are notoriously difficult to monitor and diagnose, due to their widely distributed nature. This BOF session begins with a discussion of the speakers experiences with using Java Management Extensions (JMX) with JXTA and the tools and techniques they have used for monitoring distributed networks. The discussion will then expand the to include the experiences using JMX of audience members in managing large and distributed networks.
  • Date and Time: 10-MAY-07 19:55
  • Location: North Meeting Room
  • Presented by: Mohamed Abdelaziz, Michael Duigou, Sun Microsystems Inc.

• BOF-7744 -- The JEDI Open-Courseware Project: Taking Java Where It Matters Most
  • Presentation Description: This session discusses experiences in managing the open-courseware project that provides free industry-endorsed course materials and how the different Java communities in the world empowered JEDI. It also shows how JEDI created a social phenomenon in selected countries.
  • Date and Time: 09-MAY-07 18:35
  • Location: Esplanade 301
  • Presented by: Rommel Feria & John Paul Petines

• Java.net CommunityCorner ........ java.net mini-talks #408
• java.net Robotics Community , Pod with demos, SunSPOTs^?/TrackBots, maybe videos and whatever else we can get together in time

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• • Presentation Description: Sun SPOTs are small, battery-operated wireless sensors (see http://www.sunspotworld.com). SPOTs provide the basics needed by a mobile robot, lacking only a suitable chassis and some additional sensors. Designed with an I/O expansion connector, they include an 802.15.4 radio, so they can communicate with each other as well as with the growing family of compatible 802.15.4 devices. This BOF session, which shows you how a SPOT can be made into a rugged, affordable mobile robot, builds on the open-source projects in the java.net robotics community, at https://robotics.dev.java.net/.

    There are low-cost, fragile mobile robots that get tripped up by such common obstacles as rugs and power cords. There are also expensive mobile robots that can deal with common household or office obstacles. But there are virtually no low-cost rugged robots. The SPOTBot targets this market niche.

    It starts with an available tracked (that is, caterpillar-drive) robot chassis about 130 millimeters wide, 175 millimeters long, and 50 millimeters high. The sturdy plastic chassis includes two DC motors with gear reduction, durable rubber tracks, and a holder for 6 AA batteries (the SPOTBot uses NiMH^? rechargeables). A tracked platform has several advantages over a typical three-wheel caster system. This tracked chassis easily climbs steep inclines; crawls over power cords and computer cables; and can handle high-pile carpet, doorway thresholds, transitions between hard-surface and carpeted areas, and similar obstacles. Differential steering is simple and allows the robot to turn within its own length.

    The presentation shows the design of a circuit board for the robot that includes motor drive electronics and basic collision-avoidance and navigational sensors. These sensors include sonar and infrared range finders as well as human-body detection. Then it shows all the software needed, from the device driver level up to the abstract API level.

    The session includes a demonstration of a small swarm of SPOTBots exhibiting simple flocking behavior while avoiding obstacles and exploring their environment. It also shows SPOTBots seeking out human beings and attempting to follow them around.

    The SPOTBot is much more than a toy--it is capable of carrying a kilogram and can mount other sensors such as a color camera. With its advanced Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)/CLDC CPU and wireless radio, a SPOTBot is well suited to university-level educational and research use.

    This BOF session assumes that you have at least a year of experience with the Java programming language, along with basic knowledge of common robotic transducers such as brushed DC motors, sonar range finders, and infrared sensors.

    At the end of this session, you will know how to go about adding your own sensors and actuators to the base-level Sun SPOT module and how to write the code to utilize them. And you will have a good idea of the capabilities of the SPOTBot.

• • Presentation Description: Sun SPOTs are small, battery-operated wireless sensors (see http://www.sunspotworld.com). SPOTs provide the basics needed by a mobile robot, lacking only a suitable chassis and some additional sensors. Designed with an I/O expansion connector, they include an 802.15.4 radio, so they can communicate with each other as well as with the growing family of compatible 802.15.4 devices. This BOF session, which shows you how a SPOT can be made into a rugged, affordable mobile robot, builds on the open-source projects in the java.net robotics community, at https://robotics.dev.java.net/.

    There are low-cost, fragile mobile robots that get tripped up by such common obstacles as rugs and power cords. There are also expensive mobile robots that can deal with common household or office obstacles. But there are virtually no low-cost rugged robots. The SPOTBot targets this market niche.

It starts with an available tracked (that is, caterpillar-drive) robot chassis about 130 millimeters wide, 175 millimeters long, and 50 millimeters high. The sturdy plastic chassis includes two DC motors with gear reduction, durable rubber tracks, and a holder for 6 AA batteries (the SPOTBot uses NiMH^? rechargeables). A tracked platform has several advantages over a typical three-wheel caster system. This tracked chassis easily climbs steep inclines; crawls over power cords and computer cables; and can handle high-pile carpet, doorway thresholds, transitions between hard-surface and carpeted areas, and similar obstacles. Differential steering is simple and allows the robot to turn within its own length.

The presentation shows the design of a circuit board for the robot that includes motor drive electronics and basic collision-avoidance and navigational sensors. These sensors include sonar and infrared range finders as well as human-body detection. Then it shows all the software needed, from the device driver level up to the abstract API level.

The session includes a demonstration of a small swarm of SPOTBots exhibiting simple flocking behavior while avoiding obstacles and exploring their environment. It also shows SPOTBots seeking out human beings and attempting to follow them around.

The SPOTBot is much more than a toy--it is capable of carrying a kilogram and can mount other sensors such as a color camera. With its advanced Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)/CLDC CPU and wireless radio, a SPOTBot is well suited to university-level educational and research use.

This BOF session assumes that you have at least a year of experience with the Java programming language, along with basic knowledge of common robotic transducers such as brushed DC motors, sonar range finders, and infrared sensors.

At the end of this session, you will know how to go about adding your own sensors and actuators to the base-level Sun SPOT module and how to write the code to utilize them. And you will have a good idea of the capabilities of the SPOTBot.

• • The presentation shows the design of a circuit board for the robot that includes motor drive electronics and basic collision-avoidance and navigational sensors. These sensors include sonar and infrared range finders as well as human-body detection. Then it shows all the software needed, from the device driver level up to the abstract API level.

• • The session includes a demonstration of a small swarm of SPOTBots exhibiting simple flocking behavior while avoiding obstacles and exploring their environment. It also shows SPOTBots seeking out human beings and attempting to follow them around.

• • The SPOTBot is much more than a toy--it is capable of carrying a kilogram and can mount other sensors such as a color camera. With its advanced Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)/CLDC CPU and wireless radio, a SPOTBot is well suited to university-level educational and research use.

• • This BOF session assumes that you have at least a year of experience with the Java programming language, along with basic knowledge of common robotic transducers such as brushed DC motors, sonar range finders, and infrared sensors.

• • At the end of this session, you will know how to go about adding your own sensors and actuators to the base-level Sun SPOT module and how to write the code to utilize them. And you will have a good idea of the capabilities of the SPOTBot.

• • Presentation Description: Sun SPOTs are small, battery-operated wireless sensors (see http://www.sunspotworld.com). SPOTs provide the basics needed by a mobile robot, lacking only a suitable chassis and some additional sensors. Designed with an I/O expansion connector, they include an 802.15.4 radio, so they can communicate with each other as well as with the growing family of compatible 802.15.4 devices. This BOF session, which shows you how a SPOT can be made into a rugged, affordable mobile robot, builds on the open-source projects in the java.net robotics community, at https://robotics.dev.java.net/.

There are low-cost, fragile mobile robots that get tripped up by such common obstacles as rugs and power cords. There are also expensive mobile robots that can deal with common household or office obstacles. But there are virtually no low-cost rugged robots. The SPOTBot targets this market niche.

• • There are low-cost, fragile mobile robots that get tripped up by such common obstacles as rugs and power cords. There are also expensive mobile robots that can deal with common household or office obstacles. But there are virtually no low-cost rugged robots. The SPOTBot targets this market niche.

• • It starts with an available tracked (that is, caterpillar-drive) robot chassis about 130 millimeters wide, 175 millimeters long, and 50 millimeters high. The sturdy plastic chassis includes two DC motors with gear reduction, durable rubber tracks, and a holder for 6 AA batteries (the SPOTBot uses NiMH^? rechargeables). A tracked platform has several advantages over a typical three-wheel caster system. This tracked chassis easily climbs steep inclines; crawls over power cords and computer cables; and can handle high-pile carpet, doorway thresholds, transitions between hard-surface and carpeted areas, and similar obstacles. Differential steering is simple and allows the robot to turn within its own length.

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• • Presentation Description: "Your media hops from device to device, but why doesn’t the code that you use to work with that media do the same? Java Platform, Standard Edition (”Java SE”) should be the ideal language for working with media: it runs on devices large and small, and the language design is particularly well-suited to deal with intrinsically complex domains, like media. Yet other technologies dominate media production, distribution, and presentation. This BoF will lay out a comprehensive new vision for what Java media can be and should be, and how to get there from here. Starting out with what functionality is needed for media applications in the Web 2.0 era, the session will move on to consider why current libraries have failed to address the needs of media application developers, will identify specific traits that a forward-looking Java media library needs, and will explore the idea of who’s going to create this. The session is meant to kick off a lengthy Q&A with like-minded attendees."

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• • There are low-cost, fragile mobile robots that get tripped up by such common obstacles as rugs and power cords. There are also expensive mobile robots that can deal with common household or office obstacles. But there are virtually no low-cost rugged robots. The SPOTBot targets this market niche.

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• • Presentation Description: The new Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3 specification makes enterprise applications development easier, cleaner, and faster. As with any other new technology, however, there are always new tricks to be learned and pitfalls to be avoided. This session presents the speakers’ experience with building real-world applications using EJB 3 technology. The session uses the lessons learned in this experience to show techniques, tools, tips, and tricks to make good use of session-beans-, entity-beans-, and message-driven-beans-compliant objects, discussing the problems and pitfalls encountered. It presents a series of refactoring actions you can perform to better use new features in EJB 3 technology, with real-world examples. The session also presents a revision of the traditional EJB technology design patterns, showing the role they played when release 3 was being developed and presenting new design patterns that arose with this new version. The goal of this session is to share the results of this experience with other developers, discussing the outcome of using EJB 3 technology, the benefits, the drawbacks, and the techniques for building a successful EJB 3 technology-based application.

• • Presented by: Fabiane Bizinella Nardon (JavaTools Community) and Edgar Silva (Project Greenbox/JavaTools Community)

• • Presentation Description: Java technology can make sure you benefit from the company you keep. Someone sits next to you at this conference and pops open a laptop, and suddenly your application starts working faster. You head to lunch and want to show your friends the presentation you are working on. They don't have to gather around your laptop. All they have to do is open up theirs, and as you move to the next slide, their view of the presentation changes as well. What technology should you be paying attention to? You can find out immediately from your social network of developers. Find out which APIs developers working on similar project like to leverage. Even when you aren't on the Internet, you can take advantage of the machines around you. In this session, you learn how to program dynamic minigrids for your desktop Java technology-based applications by using zero-configuration networking. Code examples demonstrate how to add the coolness factor of ad hoc grids to your application. The presentation covers advertising, discovering, and connecting to services. Collaboration can be a differentiator for your application.

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• • Presentation Description: You use a lot of open-source software every day. For most developers on the Java platform, this open-source software is critical to you, your job, and your organization. But what can you do to ensure a long life for this software that you need and love? The participants in this panel discussion draw from their experience on high-visibility projects, company payrolls, and communities. These developers have all taken part in, led, and/or benefited from open-source projects related to Java technology. If you are a project lead who has open sourced or is considering open sourcing your project, the panel will help you understand how others have integrated OS projects into their workflow, including mistakes they have made and surprises they have discovered.
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• • Presentation Description: This BOF session explores the concept of developing and managing pluggable desktop Swing applications driven by a different OSGi-based framework. It showcases a straightforward approach for developing your own lightweight solution on top of an OSGi implementation: the Knopflerfish project. This provides an alternative to the heavyweight approach used by the RCP-like solutions (Eclipse and NetBeans^?). JSR 175 (A Metadata Facility for the Java™ Programming Language) is used to simplify the construction of Java desktop service-oriented applications. For instance, a simple @Plugin annotation creates a plugin. With a lightweight approach you can create robust, service-oriented desktop applications without needing specific tools like those that Eclipse and NetBeans^? provide for building on top of their respective platforms. This BOF is an opportunity to understand the OSGi specification and how to benefit from it in the Java desktop development world. Attendees will learn practical techniques and tips on how to implement their own plugin development environment for making the best use of the OSGi. To get the maximum benefit from this session, participants should have experience with Java development.

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• • Presented by Fabiane Bizinella Nardon (JavaTools Community) and Edgar Silva (Project Greenbox/JavaTools Community)

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CommunityCorner is back again for the third consecutive year!

• Java.net CommunityCorner ........ java.net mini-talks #TBD

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• TS-1109, The Sun™ Grid Compute Utility, After a brief background of grids and parallel computing to set the stage, this presentation will provide an overview of the Sun Grid, from a business and technical perspective. It will then describe how to use the Sun Grid, including an explanation of the execution environment and its components and the interfaces for interacting with the grid. A simple Java application will be used as an example to demonstrate the packaging, deployment, and execution steps. Tuesday 05/16/2006 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM, presented by Peter Murray, Sun Microsystems Inc; Fay Salwen, Sun Microsystems Inc; Uday Subbarayan, Sun Microsystems Inc

• TS-1595 Scaling Out Tier-Based Applications, Wednesday, May 17 2:45pm, John Davies, C24; Frank Greco, NYJavaSIG; Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces^?

• TS-3117, Advanced Sun™ Grid - Creating Applications for Horizontal Scale, After a brief overview of the Sun Grid, this session will discuss the design considerations associated with parallel development, including inter-node communications using sockets or socket wrapping services, data management and distributed partial failure / recovery in large scale deployments. It will elaborate on some parallel design patterns and best practices for using Grid Engine, Java, Java Networking, MPI, RMI, Jini/JavaSpaces, and the shared home directory, on Sun Grid. Different approaches for communications between distributed Java components will be discussed and illustrated by example applications and real time demos, Tuesday 05/16/2006 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM

• TS-5386, Groovy Goes RFID with Smart Sensors for Real-World Control, This presentation demonstrates a working system and walks through the Groovy scripts, showing their potential to address RFID customer requirements, Tuesday, 05/16/2006 05:45 PM - 06:45 PM, presented by Bruce Boyes, Systronix Inc; Jim Clarke, Sun Microsystems Inc; James Wright, Sun Microsystems Inc

• TS-3108 Sigrid: The Simplest Possible Grid Computing Platform, Thursday, May 18 1:30pm, Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems

• TS-3714 Flash-Gridding with Java Technology: Using Project, Glassfish, Jini/JavaSpaces, and Groovy as an Environment, for an Open Source, Self-Assembling Supercomputer Thursday, May 18 2:45pm, James Gammill, Sean Merritt, Van Simmons, ComputeCycles^?.org

• TS-3625 Scaling the Java Environment in Four Dimensions, Wednesday, May 17 12:15pm, Jim Waldo, Sun Microsystems

• TS-5622 Programmatic Access to a Compute Utility, Thursday, May 18 4pm, Murali Kaundinya, Sun Microsystems

• TS-3527 Building Highly Dynamic Battlefield Network Infrastructure for Boeing U.S. Army Future Combat Systems Using JXTA™ Technology, Thursday, May 18 12:15pm, Bernard Traversat, Sun Microsystems

• LAB-7135 Building Grid-Enabled Applications, Thursday, May 18 4pm, Amir Halfon, Daniel Templeton, Sun Microsystems Inc

• LAB-7110 Building Peer-to-Peer Java™ Technology-based Applications with JXTA™ Technology, Friday, May 19 12pm, James Todd, Sun Microsystems Inc

• BOF-7995, What's Next for Sun™ Grid?, This BOF will specifically explore ways in which the Sun Grid Compute Utility might evolve to support more interactive, long running usage scenarios such as Composite Applications (SOA, Mash-ups, etc.) and Software as a Service (SaaS^?). For the Sun Grid to support these kind of services, new mechanisms must be developed to manage the virtualized resources in efficient and secure ways. Tuesday, 05/16/2006, 10:30 PM - 11:20 PM, presented by Dan Hushon, Sun Microsystems Inc; Daniel Templeton, Sun Microsystems Inc; Keith Thompson, Sun Microsystems Inc; Michael Wheaton, Sun Microsystems Inc

• BOF-0668 The Grid Appliance: Simplifying Distributed Computing, Thursday, May 18 8:30pm, Chris Cellucci, Tom Cellucci, Skill Corporation

• BOF-0579 Version-Aware SOA Using Jini and JavaSpaces^? Technologies, Wednesday, May 17 7:30pm, Brian Elliott, Brian Zimmer, Orbitz; Brian Pontarelli, Naymz

• BOF-0268 Jini and JavaSpaces^? Technologies, Wednesday, May 17 9:30pm, Peter Jones, John McClain^?, Brian Murphy, Sun Microsystems

• BOF-2000 Object-Based Reports for Java™ Desktop Technology and the Java EE Platform, Wednesday May 17 09:30pm, Fernando Lozano

• BOF-2031 Experience Self-Organized and Ad Hoc Collaborative Development With the NetBeans^?™ IDE, Thursday May 18 10:30pm, James Todd, Sun Microsystems

• BOF-0802 Financial Engineering Techniques in Java™ Technology, Wednesday May 17 9:30pm, Ami Navon, Sun Microsystems

• BOF-0007 JXTA™ Technology Security Best Practices, Wednesday May 17 10:30pm, Mike Duigou, Sun Microsystems

• BOF-0609 Project Looking Glass: Meet the Team and the Community, Tuesday May 16 9:30pm, Looking Glass Team, Sun Microsystems

• Java.net CommunityCorner ........ java.net mini-talks #532
• JXTAtm Technology #733
• Project Looking Glass 3D Desktop #718
• Sun Grid #712
• Glassfish #706
• JDK Community #723