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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.

Hurtling Towards JavaOne...

I'm in my normal ten-days-to-JavaOne panic phase, but the various pieces are starting to come together.

Bill Shannon are I are finalizing the slides for the JavaOne 2006 Technical General Session at 12:15 on Tuesday the 16th. This is the session where we provide the overall roadmaps for the Java SE and EE platforms, to try to give people a context for the many individual technical sessions and BOFs that follow.

As usual we're panicking over having far too much material for the available time. We'll be covering Mustang and Java EE 5, but we'll also have a section towards the end looking forward to Dolphin and other new technologies. This year we're including a range of demos, so you can see the reality, both of the "Now and How" for Java EE 5 and for some of the future ideas. So grab your box lunch and bring it into the keynote room for our 12:15 start!

The program of general sessions start with the Tuesday morning Sun executive keynote with Jonathan Schwartz and Jeff Jackson. The Thursday morning keynote from Erich Gamma and John Wiegand of IBM should be particularly interesting: it promises many insights from their Eclipse experiences. And on Friday, Scott and James will show us the latest, greatest, craziest, most fun Java innovations!

There are, of course, a vast range of Technical Sessions and BOFs covering all kinds of key Java technologies. but, in addition to the sessions and BOFs, I wanted to plug a few associated community events:

• Mustang Community party, at the Argent Hotel, Tuesday, May 16, 8:30pm. Come here if you are contributing, or would like to contribute to Mustang and Dolphin.

• Glassfish Community JUG and Reception, at the Argent Hotel, Wednesday, May 17, 5-7 pm, for participants and users of Sun's open source Java EE 5 project.

• Java Community Process Reception at the Argent Hotel, Wednesday, May 17, 6:30-8:00 pm, for JCP participants.

Now I have to run - Chet has just got me some new benchmark data to expose (!) concrete numbers for the benefits of the famous Gray Rect UI fix...

Slides for JavaOne Technical Keynote

Here are the PDF slides for the JavaOne 2005 Technical Keynote (450 K).

The Technical Keynote is our attempt to provide a high level overview of the roadmaps and big directions for the core Java platform. The rough agenda was:

• Java^TM SE Roadmaps (Graham Hamilton)
  • Mustang, Dolphin, and more
• Java^TM EE Roadmaps (Bill Shannon)
  • Java EE 5, EJB 3.0, JAX-WS and more
• SOA (Mark Hapner)
  • Service Oriented Architecture and the Java platform

The Java^TM ME roadmaps were covered in a special kickoff session for the Java ME track. (We had way too much material to fit into a single keynote session.)

The Technical Keynote aims to provide a high level overview to help set direction at the start of the conference. But the real technical meat is, of course, in the individual technical sessions. The PDFs for all the technical sessions will be going on-line in a few weeks and those will provide much more detail on specific areas.

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