At the June 29, Wednesday morning Platinum session, held
from 8:30 to 9:15, Nokia Chief Technology Officer and Senior
Vice President Pertti Korhonen provided a vision of the future that
promises to take Sun's motto "The network is the computer" to
another level, by putting the server in your pocket.
Steve Meloan
does a really good job of covering the technical moves Nokia and
the industry...
Here I am at TS-3268, "Java Technology Performance Myths
Exposed," with Cliff Click, of Azul Systems. Azul, founded in
2001, advertises itself as pioneering "the industry's first network
attached processing solution, designed to unbound compute
resources for virtual machine based applications. Without any
application level modifications, binary compatibility requirements
or operating system...
I'm at TS-7992 where Project Looking Glass (LG3D), a Java
technology-based open source project that brings a richer user
experience to the desktop through 3D windowing and visualization
capabilities, is being presented to an audience of, I guesstimate,
800 people. LG3D sprang from the very creative heart and mind of
Sun's Hideya Kawahara. Recognizing that desktops had not
changed...
I'm at TS-7393 along with a pretty packed room of, I
estimate, 700+ attendees. All the sessions that I've gone to have
been well attended with a serious but enthusiastic-looking group of
folks it appears who ask smart questions in the Q...
I’m at Exhibit #1111, Swing/Labs JDesktop
Network Components (JDNC). It’s a Sun Microsystems
project that allows experimentation with extensions
to existing Java Foundation Classes/Swing API
components, new JFC/Swing components and various desktop related technologies
like Java 2D, AWT. I’m talking now with Sun’s Roman Guy, who explains,
“We experiment with a number of projects...
It’s so inspiring to watch gifted artists at work. Their art is alive with color and imagination. Sun brought six gifted artists to the 2005 JavaOne Conference with the goal of raising $5000 for the Foundation for a College Education (FCE) of East Palo Alto, California, which Sun has supported for ten years, about as long as Java technology has existed. All during that time, Sun employees have...
Over at TS-1640 Pragmatic SOA: A Case Study, with developers Ashok Mollin, Ashesh Badani of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and T.N. Subramaniam, Director of Technology at RouteOne LLC Inc. Ed Ort (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edort/archive/2005/06/pragmatic_soa.html) and Tim Bray (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/) of Sun are blogging the session in greater detail. I will be doing a story on this for java....
