Simon’s Blog

If you’re a software developer, you might want to watch Sun Microsystems this week.  Their JavaOne conference, and free spin-off CommunityOne, are taking place in San Francisco; so  expect a series of announcements and updates on progress on projects that have been under the covers for a while.   Areas where there should interesting and detailed news flow include:

• Cloud computing - we’ll hear exactly what they’re doing with Amazon EC2, OpenSolaris and maybe even MySQL
• Mobile - we’ll hear about JavaFX Mobile (perhaps an announcement of an SDK), and maybe what they’re doing with Google’s Android, and Apple’s iPhone)
• Java on the desktop - we’ll hear about the release of the new consumer Java which is imminent;  and maybe get the first public viewing of new, upcoming support for video in Java
• Developer tools - perhaps the first public showing of JavaFX Designer which is in development

Could be an interesting few days…