Month: May 2007

Interface21 and Accenture have annouced their ‘Spring Batch’ addition to the Spring Framework this week which gives a framework for build batch processing applications in Java.

Rod Johnson of Interface21 and Wayne Lund of Accenture will be jointly presenting this week at JavaOne giving an overview of this new framework. The framework was developed by Accenture and was ‘harvested’ from projects using the technology, enhaced to take full advantage of the Spring Framework and then donated to Open Source with Interface 21’s help.

The new framework has been getting at lot of positive attention on news sites across the internet, for example, this article on eWeek.

See the project website for more information.

Krishna Srinivasan blogs on the onJava.com site “Does JavaFX spell the end of AJAX?” – JavaFX with the sparse details we know so far looks like a direct competitor to Flash, Javascript and AJAX like interactive functionality. This looks like a promising combination of features that may allow Web2.0 functionality to be implemented the correct way, instead of the poorly cobbled together with rubber bands and double-sided sticky tape approach that is AJAX as we know today.

Tuesday’s General Session introduced the new JavaFX scripting, and on the page summarizing the session there is a snippet of code that gives an example of what JavaFX looks like – looks more declaritive in style, but greatly simplifies creation of UIs for the user. Take a look here.

Check the JavaOne homepage for all the latest news and updates as it happens at JavaOne this week: http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/index.jsp