•    Here we go! It’s actually the 14th JavaOne and simultaniously 14 years since this blogger began hacking with a beta version Java 1.0. Make’s ya feel kinda old!
•    First demo: JavaFX-based community/Chat app called Dark Chat with a very pleasing UI. Apparently we can use this to chat our way through the next four days.
•    Next, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwarz delivers 1-year Java chronology with reminders about the sheer ubiquity of Java e.g. 2.6 billion mobile devices.
•    Stage appearances follow from Ebay, RIM (Blackberry), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Verizon Wireless, Intel.
•    Blackberry Platform Senior VP Alan Brenner reminds audience that Blackberry is an all-Java device; makes his point with a pretty lame demo showing integration of a 3rd party app with email.
•    Sony’s Don Eklund describes Java’s role in Blu-Ray Disk technology. Java used for the UI on th PS/3. In the US: 3 million set top boxes, 7 million PS/3.
•    Lowel McAdam Pressident and Chief Executive Officer, Verizon announces partnership with Sun and a revision of its (to-date) closed platform strategy to one of Open Development Initiative, which from this year will include Open Development for Applications. Verizon will open up it’s network to app developers. This will give developer access to real-time user information e.g. are friends/family online?
•    Intel’s Diane Bryant, Executive VP talks about Atom, Core, Xeon processors target different points on the power-scale. Collaboration with Sun on Java performance has resulted in an 8x performance increase. I’m still waiting to see a gain like this on my Mac, however.
•    Next up: Schwarz announces JavaFX 1.2.
•    Ronan McBrien (JavaFX TV Architect) mounts the stage and describes the Set Top / TV challenge: 6 mio pixels to write to whilst restricted to the computing the power of a hand-set. He demos a TV running JavaFX with a nice UI. UI is translucent running over HD picture. Selects some multimedia from the UI then play back in full-screen. This is a pretty compelling UI which will surely impress a lot of onlookers.
•    Next up: Nandini Ramani, Director of Engineering JavaFX annouces new JavaFX authoring tool, which (she reluctantly reveals) will be available EA for partners „by the end of the year“. The tool enables a Macromedia Flash authoring experience with deployment of the content onto a variety of devices as well as the Java Store (which – it appears from the exchange with JS – she ewas not supposed to mention.)

•    Then to much applause and whistles from idolising developers, James Gosling (VP and Sun Fellow) talks with JS about how to turn Java efforts into $$$. I should applaud too because it’s this guy that enabled me to buy a house. Unfortunately I’m too busy blogging.
•    JG adorns a T-shirt with the slogan „Turning Labors of Love Into Day Jobs“ “. My guess is that this is leading up to an annoucement about the Java Store…
•    Yes indeed! http://store.java.com available from today as Beta.
•    JG explains that fully realising the Java Store will take a little more time because Sun wants to ensure that the design of the payment mechanism is solid. Gosling demos a buggy JavaFX-based UI as a front-end for the store, which features an „App Preview“ feature.

•    Mark Gerhard CRO Jagx demos an online Java game called Rune Scape. Apparently this is the most popular free game in the world. Explains significance of Java Store as a means to tap into a vastly greater market. Gosling presents Duke’s Choice Award to Jagx. Jagx makes money by offering extras for paying customers.
•    Schwarz now philosopizes a bit about what „leadership“ means. Apparently it means courage. He uses this as an excuse to introduce Scott McNeally, Sun Chairman and Co-Founder. Together they catapult some „thank you“ packs into the audience. Unfortunately, none of them land anywhere near me. I’ll be really annoyed if they contain money.
•    McNeally finally addresses the Oracle issue; talks of the advantages of Oracle’s Sun purchase. Jests that the friendship between Oracle & Apple CEOs (Ellison, Jobs) may get finally Java on the iPhone.
•    Larry Ellison (Oracel CEO) takes to the stage. Explains why Oracle’s middleware is built on Java. Next generation apps will all be built on Java. McNeally notes that Sun/Oracle combined R&D budget is 4-5 bio.

•    Ellison speaks of opportunity to reduce problems faced by AJAX developers apps by using JavaFX.
•    Doubts, which have been expressed by many, concerning JavaOne’s future are reduced when Ellison states that he doesn’t expect big changes in terms of JavaOne and the way the highly established Java community operates.
•    A line of nautical flags presented by McNeally to Ellison (a huge yachting enthusiast and Americas cup winner) spells out Java. We wonder whether the Oracle yacht will carry these flags in the near future.
•    McNeally thanks the community as he’s about to leave Sun. He takes a bow and receives a standing ovation.
•    That’s it for the JavaOne ’09 KeyNote!!!

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