Wednesday, 14 May 2008
JavaOne 2008: Day Three
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Thursday was the last possible day to visit the JavaOne Pavilion. As mentioned earlier, the Eclipse Foundation had a booth there, and so had IBM.
As IBM had Lotus Expeditor on display, originally pitched as a 'universal desktop client integration framework', it seemed like the perfect opportunity to check up on recent developments. Unfortunately, the attendant responsible for that part of the booth had gone missing. None of the other attendants managed to provide any information, stating that they didn't know anything about it. Too bad.
Then there was the highly anticipated session in the afternoon: 'Developing Semantic Web Applications on the Java Platform'. While the presentation provided a nice overview of the current state of affairs, a concluding statement on Java's natural ability to develop the Semantic Web seemed more motivated by a desire to please the audience, than by any desire to share insight into the matter. Anybody working with Jena or other Java-based tooling can testify to the opposite. Similar to the situation with table-based database systems, the paradigm mismatch between the object-oriented approach of Java and the concept-oriented approach of the Semantic Web, makes application development burdensome. There is still work to be done in this area and the results are expected to be in line with the work already done for the Java Persistence API (JSR-220).
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