JavaOne 2004 -- Day one

My immediate impression of JavaOne 2004 is certainly positive and I have already met some very interesting folks who are using Java innotive ways. Jonathan Schwartz gave an excellent key note this morning and emphasized that the majority of innovation happens elsewhere. More and more I am finding this statement to ring very true.

We have been very busy in the JDBC Engineering team over the past 12 months and I am really looking forward to hearing all your feedback and experiences with the tehcnology we have worked on, including JDBC RowSet Implementations and most importantly this will be our first opportunity to give an overview of JDBC 4.0 and our ease-of-development proposals. Graham Hamilton gave a quick outline on our proposals at today's keynote.

We have our JDBC Performance BOF and our JDBC 4.0 Session to get through yet -- I'll share some thoughts on these over the next few days...