DevRoom Proposal: Caciocavallo, or how we ported OpenJDK from embedded to cloud and still liked it

[Mario Torre]

* Title

Caciocavallo, or how we ported OpenJDK from embedded to cloud and still liked it

* Abstract

Caciocavallo has been one of the very first external projects to land
in the OpenJDK repository and sponsored by the OpenJDK Porters Group.
Named after a delicious cheese we're never tired of eating, it had the
original purpose of refactoring the AWT peers to allow different
implementations to be added to OpenJDK. The project evolved very
quickly until it became itself a full implementation of AWT based on
Swing with just enough abstraction to allow custom plugging into the
Java2D system for rendering. As time passed, this characteristic was
used to implement a GUI testing framework running on offscreen buffers
to avoid the usual problems of focus stealing and random mouse moving
that plague every other GUI testing framework (here everything is
emulated!), and finally a full Web based backend to allow application
to run remotely but still be visible on the local screen.
This talk will cover the progress we have done over the years, we will
show how easy is to implement a new backend and how this project could
be used to give Wayland support to OpenJDK. We will show the testing
framework and finally we will discuss about WebJDK, an idea to give
more web oriented functionality to OpenJDK and use the web backend to
enable fully cloud based applications.

* Recording me on audio and/or video

Yes,

* Speakers

Mario Torre, Red Hat, Inc.
Roman Kennke, Red Hat, Inc.



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