Mrinal Wadhwa is a Software Architect form Bangalore, India. He is interested in User Interfaces, Databases, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Networking, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Software Design, Architecture, Scalability etc. and is working with a small team trying to bootstrap a software as a service product startup.
Dick Hirsch introduced me to Stax in relation to an open source project that I’m involved with, Apache ESME (more on that later)
According to the Stax website … Stax is “The fastest way for developers to build, manage and scale Java applications on EC2″ .. here are the notable features …. read more
Sun Microsystems today announced a preview release of the JavaFX SDK.
I’ve been observing this new entrant into the RIA space from the outside but today I thought it was time to dig in a little bit. So I got my hands on the latest Netbeans wit JavaFx support and cooked up this little Hello World application…. read more
Sun Microsystems announced JavaFX (their RIA platform) a year ago but till now all we had seen were some lame examples mostly because (I guess) the deployment platform for JavaFX wasn’t ready yet.
Sun’s yearly developer conference JavaOne is currently going on and it looks as though some cool stuff is being shown there. I saw a twitter from Dion Almaer (of Ajaxian fame) where he shared a video of a really cool demo .. even though the demo crashed a couple of times 
… it does tell you a lot about the platform… read more
In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo … In todays world Artemis is a community project to extend and enhance Adobe’s Apollo by connecting it with Java … the idea is to build very rich and interactive User Experiences for desktop Java applications in traditionally Internet based user interface technologies Flex/Flash/AJAX instead of using traditionally desktop UI technologies like Java Swing. read more
