The 1st conference for Russian speaking programmers was held in Odessa at the 30th of September. The conference was organized by online forum javatalks.ru with support of Sun Microsystems and was dedicated to innovations in Java and open-source technologies.

The main conference goals were to raise interest in Java technologies among Russian speaking programmers, to raise qualification and to exchange experience in this area, as well as to promote initiatives based on Java.

N-iX employees were participating at JavaTalks 2008 as a delegate together with other 80 programmers from Odessa, Lviv, Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg. Here you can read some impressions of Andriy Andrunevchyn, software engineer working in StreamServe project.

«The most interesting and the most intensive part of the conference in Odessa was a speech of Igor Nekrestyaninov (Lead Engineer, Sun Microsystems) about new Java options by developping Desktop application. This new changes will be ready starting from 10th update of Java Standart Edition 6. So, what is new? At first it is a new skin for graphic interfaces, which will be fully raster. So now Java specialists can write programms not in square windows as usually, but also in windows of any other form. Demonstrated by speaker examples were really impressive, round and wave-shaped windows, different animation and many effects which are so beloved by users:). Important is also a news that SUN is planning to give the second life to recently forgotten applets technology.

Among other news were developing new plug-in, which will be compatible only with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 3.0. While developing applets of new type it is possible to use renewd Desktop API fully.

Also interesting was a speech of Aleksander Ulanov (Exigen Services, System Architect) dedicated to basics of SOA for Java-developers. Widely known is the fact, that nowadays big company can use different types of software and very important is a question of coordination in this difference which leads to the unification and simplification of services for final user. This is the aim of implementation SOA on big companies.»

In additional, extra speakers on the conference, the representatives of Sun Microsystems (Russia, Moscow) and Exigen Service (Russia, Sankt-Petersburg), pointed increasing interest to the problems discussed and to the topic in general.

All the delegates received certificates after the conference and also presents from sponsors for their professional development.