"Looking Back on JavaOne 2011" feature article
By Janice J. Heiss on Oct 18, 2011
A JavaOne “afterglow” article, “Looking Back on JavaOne 2011” is up on otn/java. The article reviews the spirit, highlights, and feel of the 2011 JavaOne Conference.
From the article itself:
“It was at times difficult to take in all that has been achieved in the last year. The announcements at this year’s JavaOne came fast and furious -- the summer release of JDK 7 (including preview release for Mac OS X), the debut of JavaFX 2.0 (Oracle’s premier development environment for rich client applications), and ongoing progress on Java EE 7 (including taking Java EE into the Cloud). Meanwhile, at Monday’s Technical Keynote, it was pointed out that there are now 5 billion Java Cards in the world --contrasted with a global population of 6.5 billion. And then Tuesday’s Strategy Keynote brought Oracle’s announcement that it will open source JavaFX -- first the components, and then the rest of the framework -- as soon as there is approval from the OpenJDK community. And all the while, the OpenJDK community continues to grow, with recent members including IBM, Apple, SAP, and Twitter.”
Read the complete article.
From the article itself:
“It was at times difficult to take in all that has been achieved in the last year. The announcements at this year’s JavaOne came fast and furious -- the summer release of JDK 7 (including preview release for Mac OS X), the debut of JavaFX 2.0 (Oracle’s premier development environment for rich client applications), and ongoing progress on Java EE 7 (including taking Java EE into the Cloud). Meanwhile, at Monday’s Technical Keynote, it was pointed out that there are now 5 billion Java Cards in the world --contrasted with a global population of 6.5 billion. And then Tuesday’s Strategy Keynote brought Oracle’s announcement that it will open source JavaFX -- first the components, and then the rest of the framework -- as soon as there is approval from the OpenJDK community. And all the while, the OpenJDK community continues to grow, with recent members including IBM, Apple, SAP, and Twitter.”
Read the complete article.
