Slides for JavaOne 2006 Technical Keynote

Here are the slides Bill Shannon and I used for the JavaOne 2006 Technical Keynote. These cover the high-level roadmaps for Java SE and EE, including Java SE 6 (Mustang), the Now and How of Java EE 5, plus future directions.

Among the future directions were some of the initial ideas for Java SE 7 (Dolphin) and new language technologies including Visual Basic for the Java Platform (Project Semplice) and JavaScript in the Java EE Web-Tier (Project Phobos).

• Tech Keynote (PDF) (1.4 meg)

• Tech Keynote (StarOffice) (1.7 meg)

• Tech Keynote (PowerPoint) (2.5 meg)

Please feel free to reuse these slides to spread the Java Platform news.

What the slides can't show is the various fine demos:

• Chet Haase showed Mustang desktop integration features, including the Vista look-and-feel, splash screen support, icons in the system tray, and launching native apps.

• Ludovic Champenois showed Java EE 5 in action, including building a Web Service in NetBeans 5.5; building a transactional web service with vi and javac; and finally building a Java EE 5 app with Java Persistence, again in NetBeans 5.5.

• Tor Norbye showed the Visual Basic language support from Project Semplice, using Java Studio Creator to build a JSF web application using VB code for its application logic. For more on Semplice, see Tor's blog.

• Roberto Chinnici showed off Project Phobos, using JavaScript within the Java web-tier to implement a rich Web 2.0 application, with Ajax on the client calling to JavaScript pages and servlets running on Glassfish. For more on Phobos, see Roberto's blog.

Also, if you're interested, a video replay of the session is available (in three segments) on the JavaOne Tuesday General Sessions page.