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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.

Comments

• Graham--just wanted to say that I'm grateful Sun has made an effort to post presentation PDFs for JavaOne early this year--it's been very helpful to read them, as I couldn't attend. Also nice to get an early look at what is planned or envisioned for Dolphin. Good job getting the word out! Patrick

  Posted by: pdoubleya on May 19, 2006 at 01:10 AM

• It would be great if Dolphin implemented the XML support such that it extends gracefully into adding the ability to embed custom languages.. Scala is a Java based language that has some similar ideas.

  Posted by: vhi on May 19, 2006 at 06:47 AM

• I noticed in you address that you said you would like to see shorter syntax for event handelling, there is an RFE, http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6389769, that addresses this issue.

  PS Helpful presentation :)

  Posted by: hlovatt on May 23, 2006 at 05:35 PM

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