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JavaOne Gosling keynote (pictures)

In his Thursday keynote, James Gosling talked about the NetBEAMS ocean monitoring project, previously mentioned here, as well as Boeing's Java-piloted drone. Real-time Java doesn't interrupt important threads for garbage collection, which is very important for keeping the plane flying, and would be so nice for Tomcat apps, too!

Gosling jokingly said the most amazing thing about JavaOne was that the audience didn't try to kill Dennis Miller. Miller had indicated that he supports some of the president's recent actions (but also indicated that he was a social libertarian.) I didn't see any protest signs last night... the entire audience might not share Gosling's views just because they program in his language.

UPDATE: Some friends suggested that people were offended because of Miller's politically incorrect statements. That's always his entire act, and should be no surprise. I saw some people leave. And return with more drinks. We now return you to matters of interest to Java developers.

The Moscone Center and their corporate insurers did not have faith enough in real-time Java to allow the 40 pound vehicle to fly around the hall, but you could enjoy looking at it mounted on a stick. (click pictures for larger sizes)

Some developers prefer to watch the keynote on a giant TV, sitting on comfy beanbag chairs.

Yes, that's the itty bitty "real" Gosling in the lower left.

John Gage of Sun showed the ability to drag running Java applications from a Windows PC to a Mac and back, without interrupting the processes. He said this will be useful for mobile devices to transfer their processes to the network for more computing power.

Goodbye JavaOne 2005, it's been fun.

JavaOne photos - Wednesday

Java's 10th birthday rock and roll celebration...

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Alex Rodriguez, "Duce" paints a giant Java 10th Birthday Card.

Have a cupcake..

See, Java IS cool.

Keep bag away from duke.

JavaOne sessions to be free on the web...

Multimedia sessions and PDFs from 2005 JavaOne will be made freely available to everyone over the internet in August. You have to register for Sun Developer Network, which is also free.

JavaOne Online (mentorware.net) has posted this announcement:

Announcement

The 2005 JavaOne conference multimedia technical sessions, will be available
for free to Sun Developer Network (SDN) members. Membership to SDN is free
to all developers. Multimedia sessions from the 2005 conference will be available 
on the Sun Developer Network web site in late August. PDFs of the conference 
content will continue to be freely avaiable to all web site visitors. 
Current subscribers will be contacted with more details in mid-July.

Eclipse 3.1 Released

Eclipse 3.1 was released today

There is an updated release schedule page that now lists each Eclipse project and the anticipated release date of 3.1 compatible plugins. This information is useful and was very hard to piece together before.

The availability announced is:

Eclipse 3.1 - Now
Test and Performance Tools - Soon
Web Tools Platform - week of July 25
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools - week of July 29
Visual Editor Project - Soon
Eclipse Modeling Framework - week of July 4
Graphical Editing Framework - Soon
UML2 - week of July 4
AspectJ 5.0 - Soon

JavaOne photos - Tuesday

(click on any of these for larger sizes)

Behold... Java (tm). The larger rooms have styrofoam 3D logos, most of them lit from two sides with two different colors. Our programming language deserves such splendor!

Feeding the 5,000! The waiter (see larger sizes) is somehow totally unimpressed with Java.

Jason Hunter demonstrates why XQuery is better than an enormous dead tree.

Did you know that Java is 10 years old?

Bake once, eat anywhere!

JUGs Community launches new mascot (picture)

Bruno Souza (pictured) and Eitan Suez introduce "Juggy" at the java.net booth on Monday at JavaOne 2005. So, no titillating thoughts allowed, welcome Juggy!

For more info: https://jugs.dev.java.net

The Brazilian Java users group has over 7,000 members! Go Brasil!

Happy 10th Birthday Java! (with picture)

Java's 10th birthday celebration from the JavaOne keynote.

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Cool ocean remote monitoring java.net mini-talks

UPDATE: 6/28/2005 This project was just awarded the Duke's Choice Award by James Gosling, Scott McNealy, and the Java technology leadership team.

At JavaOne, java.net is hosting some interesting mini-talks in their pavillion booth.

The NetBEAMS project (not to be confused with the IDE) places wired and wireless sensors throughout San Francisco Bay that report back temperature, pressure, salinity and turbidity.

(Picture: NetBEAMS Remote Ocean Sensor, click for larger versions.)

This information is transmitted via cell phones and uses some cool technologies:

JDDAC Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control (hosted at java.net)

and

JXTA Peer-to-peer for cell phones, etc.

Mini-talks on these topics are scheduled for the java.net booth on Tuesday at JavaOne.

Sun Ultra 20 Workstation for $29.95/mo. (36 mos)

Look under "Current Promotions" here:

Sun Ultra 20

In the keynote at JavaOne this morning, Sun announced they will offer a Sun Ultra 20 Workstation for only $29.95 / month (3 year agreement) with a 90 day return if you don't like it. At the end of the 3 years, you keep the machine.

The offer includes Solaris 10, updates, and the Java develoment tools and support.

In a recent blog entry I was pondering installing Solaris on a home machine... now I'm thinking about a new Ultra 20!

UPDATE: Sun tells me if you want a higher priced system, this offer will credit you the $895, and you pay the difference.

Also, if you instead want to purchase the system outright, you get double the memory by entering the promotion code "doubleyourmemory" in the coupon field. This offer expires July 8, 2005.

JavaOne photos - Sunday

Here are some JavaOne photos from Sunday, and a link to:

My JavaOne 2005 photo set at flickr.com. (All licensed with Creative Commons - Attribution. Enjoy.)

Solaris 10 at home

I'm in San Francisco, looking forward to Java One.

While preparing, and looking through some Sun marketing emails, it occurs to me that Solaris 10 is a competitive alternative to my Fedora Core 3 home development and test machine.

Here's why:

Free to download and test.

Free 30 days of updates.

Java stuff pre-installed, and lots of it.

Update subscription for only $120 / year (per CPU).

Fedora Core updates and the unreliable group of update mirrors are free, but my time messing with it is not... updates are absolutely critical to me if I'm going to expose a server to the internet in any way. I'm reluctant to do that with Fedora Core.

Red Hat Enterprise costs me $349 / year. Wait now... maybe I should be using Solaris 10 on my work servers as well.

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