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Here in the Washington DC area, the technology community has become (or has been for a while) a vary vibrant community where a tech meetup can found on almost any night of the week.

From the Northern Virginia Java and Ruby users groups which tend to have very in-depth talks to groups such as RefreshDC which have a audience of designers, developers, and social media experts - one of the challenges of picking which events to go to is determining how in-depth the talk will be.

Jay Garcia is speaking at DevIgnition at Oracle HQ on Creating Mobile Apps with Sencha Touch. He is the author of ExtJS in Action (which he says is finally in print!). He is not a Sencha employee, but he is a contributor.

[Liveblogging during the presentation]

If you aren't familiar with Sencha, you may know them better as ExtJS. Their offerings have expanded, and their name has changed. ExtJS was born out of YUI.

Reza Rahman is speaking at DevIgnition at Oracle HQ on Java EE 6 Support for Spring 3.

Reza has spoken at the NovaJUG in the past on Java EE 6 and there are previous posts on translucent development from his talks. He also has good taste in beer!

He is an Expert Group Member for Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 and the author or EJB 3 In Action

Ryan Cuprak is speaking at DevIgnition at Oracle HQ on NetBeans Project Management.

Ryan runs the Connecticut Java User's Group and works at www.enginuityplm.com. He is the author of a book on NetBeans.

(couple of people in the room use NetBeans from the poll that was just done in the room)

Agenda

• Why NetBeans?
• Choosing a project template
• Configuring your environment
• Creating a NetBeans Standard Project

Suman Cuddapah - Oracle SOA Solutions Specialist is speaking at DevIgnition on Java Strategy as part of DevIgnition.

Priorities:

• Grow Developer Base
• Grow Adoption
• Mobile Platform

Concerns:

Technology, Community, and Platform

JCP
How many JSRs have been created. Growing rate since 2000.
"More alignment with the open source community"

Oracle is sponsoring DevIgnition today together with the Northern Virginia Java User's Group.

Topics are:

• Arun Gupta - Java EE & GlassFish Guy @ Oracle
• Reza Rahman - Author of EJB 3 in Action
• David Bock and Arild Shirazi - JRuby Experts
• Jay Garcia - Author of ExtJS in Action
• David Bock and Arild Shirazi: JRuby - Making the World Safe For Democracy
• Bryan Weber - Clojure Ninja!
• Suman Cuddapah - Oracle SOA Solutions Specialist

I feel like there has been a Cold War brewing in the Java community as of late. My blog serves itself a bit of a timeline for this. While there was much talk, speculation and comments during the transition period and as Oracle hosted their big merger video even, we had to wait a while for the first strike: Is this a Telling Sign for Oracle? Gets into Oracle's interactions wiht the PostgreSQL community, and how Oracle changed the stance of good stewardship to the open source community. I don't have a huge problem with Oracle being capitalists, but there is a way to do that without making enemies of what could be future customers. I believe a good capitalists would keep that in mind. A month later comes: The Summaries of War: Oracle vs. Google As Oracle takes direct aim at one of the most influential tech companies of the decade, an a company that has contributed much to the java community over the last 10 years or so. I know that I was looking towards Google to help set the roadmap for Java. Now, I feel that they may focus on a fork, have increased focus on Python, or may move some of their work onto Google Go. Oracle Stabs Java in the Heart Shows Google's initial response by pulling out of JavaOne and shows that they likely will not have the same role as a leader for the Java community that they once did. I understand that they had to from a lawsuit perspective, but I think they also know that it was a significant move for othere reasons as well - and that the community would see it as such. I don't think they made the decision lightly. Google Asks For Suit to be Dismissed Shortly afterwords Google asks for the suit to be dismissed in a very aggressive and confident manner, basically stating that Oracle's claims are baseless, and even has its own counterclaims and asks for the invalidating of various Oracle patents. When then enter a bit of a quite period in which Oracle doesn't say much, but that community itself is very vocal. When the announcement from Steve Jobs that Apple no longer will create and distribute the JVM for the OSX platform, the question of who will do this surfaced all over the web overnight. I think that while the community expected an answer from Oracle, they instead remained quiet. And in this silence surfaced some fear, as well as some anger. I believe we all know that a JVM would come from somewhere, but the silence was still deafening. And then at the end of October we finally heard from Oracle on Google's dismissal of the lawsuit Oracle Fires Back: 'No Cleanroom Implementation' And Oracle I feel finally spoke out to developers a bit by providing code samples which they feel back up their claims that Google infringed on their patents. There are lots of questions here on which pieces of code came from here, which ones have just variables and subclasses changed, and what is or isn't allowed if 'ideas' come from Open Source code. Those decisions are for courts, lawyers, and the community to decide, but it makes me wonder.... Is Google going to forge it's own Java path, or is it going to create a new path all together. That question, as well as others will contribute into my next entry: The Programming Language to Teach the Next Generation Note: If you are in the Nation's capital, join us for AppSecDC this week!

Oracle has fired a shot back at Google in the current debate over Google's Dalvik virtual machine. Oracle has been so quite on many fronts over the last few weeks as key things in the Java world have happened, that in some ways it is nice to see them break the silence.

An deep analysis of this still needs to be done, but for our readers - here is a link to Google Answers Oracle, Counterclaims, and Moves to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Claim

This is a public service announcement on how you can provide input to the US Patent and Trademark Office on your hate (or love) of Software Patents. But....they need the input by this Monday! "Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new guidance as to which patent applications will be accepted, and which will not. As part of this process, they are seeking input from the public about how that guidance should be structured.