Michael Yuan

Cool! Out of 4 sessions I submitted to JavaOne 2008, 2.5 are accepted! Given that JavaOne accepts less than 5% of all session proposals, this sounds like pretty good success rate. So, what exactly will I talk about in JavaOne?

First off, I will be giving a technical session on Building Interactive Mobile Messaging Applications. I will discuss how to build a SMS service like the Google SMS on a Java EE server. I think the information presented in the session will be useful for a large number of developers — for instance, for web application developers, it is often nice to have a “send to phone” button on your pages to send small pieces of information (e.g., alerts / reminders / links) to the user’s mobile phone. In the session, you will also learn how to make your application respond to requests from SMS (e.g., the user sends in a SMS to reschedule an appointment etc.). The session covers technologies used in such a solution, common design patterns / pitfalls, and third party players involved.

I will also run a BoF session on JBoss Seam: The Deep Integration Framework for Web Applications. I will try to dispel the notion that Seam is somehow a mere “web framework”. Yes, Seam is used in many web applications, but you can just use PHP or Ruby for a simple web site. The real value of Seam is to bring real Java enterprise infrastructure (e.g., business process engine, rules engine, asynchronous messaging infrastructure, advanced transaction services, scheduling service etc.) to the web application. That saves you from hard coding business workflow or rolling your own middleware frameworks in the web application. Come to the session and join the discussion!

Finally, they accepted my proposal on Developing Compelling Mobile Web Applications as a backup session — that is the 0.5 session here. This session covers mobile browser detection, multi-template based web site design, and special UI tricks for the iphone. From what I was told, there is a pretty good chance for backup sessions to be presented in the conference since some session presenters drop out at last minute for various reasons. We will see.

Hope to see y’all in JavaOne again this year!

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