With JavaOne 2011 imminent, we have a new java.net poll that provides you the opportunity to predict what the most important news from JavaOne will be (if you vote beforehand), or voice your opinion on what the most important news was (if you vote after the conference ends). The poll options were selected with reference to the description of Monday morning's JavaOne Technical Keynote. So, what area of Java/JVM technology do you think the most important news to come out of JavaOne will be related to: Java 8 Non-Java JVM languages JavaFX Java EE Embedded Java Java Me or: something else? Vote in our new poll! Articles Our latest java.net article is Sanjay Dasgupta's VisualLangLab - Grammar without Tears. Java News Here are the stories we've recently featured in our Java news section: Cameron McKenzie looks ahead to JavaOne: The best sessions to Bien; Markus Eisele reviews Day 0: JavaOne, Oracle Open World and Oracle Develop 2011; Ilias Tsagklis looks at Open Source Java Libraries and Frameworks - Benefits and Dangers; Heather Van Cura reports on Not to be missed JCP Events at JavaOne San Francisco...; Terrence Barr asks Got a favorite free Java ME library or tool? Let me know!; Shai Almog points us to the news, Major LWUIT Developer Purchased For 300M USD; Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine announces Last Call: GlassFish Community Event & Party; Michel Schildmeijer investigates WebLogic 11g start and stop automation; Tori Wieldt provides an overview of JavaOne Community Activities on Sunday; Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine introduces JavaEE.next's identity JSR; and Just released: Java Spotlight Episode 49: Charlie Hunt on Java Performance. Spotlights Our latest java.net Spotlight is Finding Your Way Around JavaOne: Imagine: You are at JavaOne and you forgot to print out your schedule! What do you do? Or, you know your next session but not how to find it. Here are some pointers: To find session times and locations while onsite at JavaOne: 1) At registration, you'll get a schedule overview 2) the JavaOne Mobile App is available for Blackberry, Android and iPhone, 3) you can use the Connection Centers in the Zone where you can look up schedule time and location... Our previous Spotlight was Java Posse Episode 364 - Sept 24th 2011, which features the java.net VisualLangLab project as its "Project of the week": Project of the week - VisualLangLab - * If you are observing the crop of new languages springing up at present (like Kotlin, Ceylon, etc.) and think to yourself "I could do better than that", well, now's your chance. * VisualLangLab is a graphical tool for designing language grammars. * The tool gives you the ability to examine the resulting abstract syntax tree from a code snippet passed through your grammar, and helps you write the grammar you want... Before that, we featured NetBeans at the JavaOne 2011 Conference: Join members of the NetBeans team; chat with local Java Champions, NetBeans Dream Team members, Java User Group Leaders and fellow NetBeans community members at JavaOne 2011, the destination to share best practices, proven solutions, code samples, and demos that show how to apply Java technology to real-world projects... Subscriptions and Archives: You can subscribe to this blog using the java.net Editor's Blog Feed. You can also subscribe to the Java Today RSS feed and the java.net blogs feed. You can find historical archives of what has appeared the front page of java.net in the java.net home page archive. -- Kevin Farnham Twitter: @kevin_farnham

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