JavaOne Begins...
June 28, 2005 @ 04:09 AMIt’s that time again, folks! That time when the development elite (read: rich Java developers) descend on San Fransisco to take part in the largest, greatest development conference in the world, JavaOne—and people like me sit in front of the computer waiting for news from there. For the next week, Sun and other Java companies will be announcing product after fantastic product and technology after amazing technology based on or created for Java and it’s users. Already, several interesting announcements have rolled in, including a few pictures of the event. I will share what little I’ve seen so far.
So, for one thing, a new chip is being released that will allow Java instructions on cell phones to be ran directly on the cell phone hardware. This will increase Java performance on Cell phones drastically. I believe this finally solidifies Java as the development environment of choice on modern mobile devices.
Secondly, the backers of Blu-Ray (Panasonic, Sony, Dell, HP, 20th Century Fox, Disney, and Apple Computer) have agreed to include Java as part of the Blu-Ray specification. Meaning all Blu-Ray players will contain Java VMs, and Blu-Ray disks will have the capability of containing Java bytecode that can be ran. Blu-Ray players must also have networking ports, so a variety of uses for the Java VM can be envisioned, though I have no idea what the group is actually planning.
Java turned 10-years old this year.
IBM will be releasing versions of their Java software for Solaris x86… which, thanks to being open sources (OpenSolaris.org), may soon give Linux a good run for it’s money. :)
More information will soon follow…