Marakana Blog

You'll be glad to know that the CommunityOne registration is now open to the public!

For those that don't know, CommunityOne is a conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems that focuses on open source innovation and implementation. It brings together developers, technologists and students for technical education and exchange. In 2009, CommunityOne will focus on the free and open platforms, tools and services that can be found powering the Internet, running enterprises, and enabling high-performance computing.

The conference runs just before JavaOne (June 1-3, 2009 @ The Moscone Center in San Francisco), and your free registration for CommunityOne will get you complimentary access to the one-day conference program, including technical sessions and the Pavilion (June 1 - 4), plus access to JavaOne general sessions (June 2 - 4). That's even better than C1 2008, which was great!

If you live in the Bay Area, attending C1 is a no-brainier - not only because it is well-organized, very technical, and super educational, but also because you'll get to network with some of the smartest folks in the Java and open-source communities!

We here at Marakana are fortunate enough to be able to host a presentation on WidgetFX framework, which in turn runs on Sun's shiny new JavaFX platform on February 9th in San Francisco. This is part of The San Francisco Java User Group that I help run.

The presentation will be conducted by Stephen Chin who founded the WidgetFX framework and the folks from Sun's JavaFX team will be doing the intro. It should be fun!

For those of you that don't know, WidgetFX is a new open-source framework for deploying JavaFX applications to users' desktops with the simplicity of one click installation. WidgetFX ships with several configurable and skinnable widgets and has a growing repository of user created widgets from Performance Monitors to Streaming Video.

Unlike other widget frameworks, WidgetFX is cross-platform, provides robust security, and can take advantage of existing Java and JavaFX libraries, making it ideal for enterprise deployments. Widgets written for WidgetFX can leverage all the rich media capabilities of the JavaFX platform including graphics, animation, and video.