12. July 2019

An insight into Web APIs

The web is constantly evolving. For decades there has been a desire to make applications accessible and usable over the web. Various technologies were used in this way, including Java applets and Flash in the past, and WebAssembly in the future – the latter being developed as the standard for the Web. Regardless of these technologies, the web is based on standards such as HTML, CSS and a large number of web APIs standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that are made available by modern browsers. Knowing these web APIs and applying them correctly presents a new challenge.

In the current issue of the specialist magazine Java Aktuell (04/2019) our senior software engineer Simon Skoczylas presents some important web APIs.

Excerpt:

Web APIs, as programming interfaces in the browser, offer ever more possibilities for interaction with the user and the world outside of the browser in the field of web development. Here I would like to introduce a few of the familiar and less known web APIs to make developers aware of various web APIs. I would also like to show how the critical decision between native, hybrid and web applications needs to be taken with increasing care.

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11. March 2019

Member of the association BaselOne

We at Karakun believe in open source. That’s why we are not only consumers of free software, but also have a long list of active contributions to various open source projects, which we usually use in our own projects. And of course, we are also happy to pass our know-how back to the community – be it through talks at conferences or JUG-evenings, events like the React Training with Simon Skoczylas in Munich, Hackathons or Meetups like the Hackergarten or even professional articles and books.

Since March 2019, Karakun AG has been an official member of the BaselOne association, organizer of the eponymous software developer conference in Basel. “The conference has made a name for itself locally in the past 3 years and some internationally renowned speakers have already appeared here. We would like to help establish Switzerland, and in particular Basel, as the home of innovative software companies and experts”, said Elisabeth Meier, CEO of Karakun AG.

In addition to active work in the conference organizing committee, we are actively involved in the design of the conference program.

21. February 2019

Time to get to know us!

This year, the JavaLand Conference

is taking place for the sixth time, from March 19 to 21 at the amusement park Phantasialand. The grand community reunion, on this occasion with amusement park panache, again offers the ideal environment for sharing knowledge and networking. Visitors can expect numerous lectures by top speakers, interactive community activities and a whole lot of fun!

And we’re right in the middle of it! Come to our booth 310 and learn more about us, who we are and what we do. Oh, and we’ll be having fun, too: help our little robot steer through our obstacle course as fast as you can. You don’t control the robot directly, however, but rather program it using components on an iPad. Once you have managed it, you’ll have the chance to win one of 3 robots.

But we’re not just there for fun. Indeed, we are also contributing to talks in the top-class program:

Web-APIs: Das ultimative Handbuch (Simon Skoczylas)

As a web developer, you get to use different Web APIs every day. Often these are the commonly known APIs, such as Document Object Model (DOM), DOM Event API, Fetch API or Geolocation API. This creates a kind of comfort zone that you rarely leave. At the same time, the Web provides many additional less or little known APIs. For example, do you already know Web Speech API, Web Bluetooth API, Server Timing API, Battery Status API or Credential Management API?

These and other APIs are part of the talk that aims to help web developers leave their comfort zone. Since the presentation covers a great deal of APIs, the audience can select at the beginning of the talk which APIs are presented in detail.

Was macht Java auf dem Client? (Hendrik Ebbers)

As in previous years, we would like to discuss with you innovations in client-side Java development. Having talked about the removal of JavaFX from the JDK in recent years and informing you about the discontinuation of Java WebStart last year, there will be many new points concerning client-side Java development in 2019.

Java WebStart ist tot - Wie geht es nun weiter? (Hendrik Ebbers)

With Java 11, Oracle has removed Java WebStart from their JDK/JRE. Although WebStart is certainly an outdated technology, it is still used by many companies and Java projects. This presentation shows different ways and approaches to maintain an existing WebStart project in the future or to successfully migrate to a new Java deployment technology. In addition to different distribution and deployment approaches, we will also look here at how we can build a native application directly from our Java client.

Panel: Zukunft Java

A panel discussion following the presentation “Zukunft Java”.

Participants: Wolfgang Weigend, Simon Ritter, Michael Page
Chaired by: Hendrik Ebbers

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