I’ll be speaking at JavaOne 2007

I am excited to announce that I will be speaking at JavaOne 2007, May 8-11, in San Francisco. My technical session will discuss JFugue, my Java API for Music Programming, and I will also get into API Usability.

Geertjan Wielenga, who used JFugue to create the NetBeans JFugue Music NotePad – and to whom I owe an enormous debt of gratitude for encouraging me to submit a speaking proposal to JavaOne – will be speaking with me, and he will discuss the ease of using JFugue in developing the Music NotePad.

In related news, I’ve been putting a lot of work into the latest release of JFugue, version 3.0. It’s taken a little longer than I had planned, but it has also exceeded my expectations and I’m incredibly pleased with it. Typically, I’m more of a fan of frequent, incremental software releases, but for this version I decided to make one big release, since I was making a number of substantial changes to the underlying architecture. I’m also working on a book, “The Complete Guide to JFugue”, which I will sell on the website – hopefully people will buy it as a way to show their support for such a wonderful API!

The new feature list is amazing – JFugue will let developers play with music in ways that have never been so easy. At the same time, I have maintained the same simple, easy-to-use API for specifying and working with music. Most users won’t have to change a thing when they upgrade to JFugue 3.0, and now there’s an extraordinary potential for people to programmatically play with music.

The new release – and new JFugue website – will be released soon, and I’ll be sure to post again when it’s up!