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

[Roman Kennke]

Hi,

The slides for Caciocavallo are here:

https://rkennke.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/cacio.pdf

Cheers,
Roman

Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2014 um 13:34 +0100 schrieb 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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