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If you weren’t following the various Java announcements at JavaOne 2008 last week, the following discussion between Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green gives not only a really great overview, bit also gives some visibility about the ambition that Sun’s senior management have for the “new Java”. Enjoy…
Update 14 May: Sun has updated their on-line info (see below), and Jonathan Schwartz in his blog has stated that JavaFX will be open sourced under the GPL v2 licence.
I’ve been aware of JavaFX, Sun’s new Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, since it was first announced a year ago at JavaOne 2007 (and before that, […]
Rich Green, EVP Software at Sun, kicked off the 2008 JavaOne with a keynote presentation today. He began by saying there were going to be some surprises. He wasn’t wrong; although, having said that, almost all of what he talked about is still being built. Mostly, nothing is shipping yet and so all we got […]
Back at the end of October last year, Apple’s new version of Mac OS X aka Leopard, had just shipped, with an important piece missing. The mising piece that people had been hoping for and expecting was Java SE 6. Mac Java developers around the world freaked out, and a campaign (code word 13949712720901ForOSX ) […]
Java 6 Update N aka “Consumer Java” is approaching release. It’s looking insanely great. Really. However, there are a few small, but important details that would improve the user experience if they were fixed/changed. Here’s one request, relating to the Java icon in the system tray.
Currently, when Consumer Java starts running in a web browser […]
Back in May 2007, I predicted that 2008 would see a renaissance in the use of Java Applets in web browsers. In the coming months, we’ll find out if I was right: the first beta version of the new “consumerized” version of Java (the so-called Consumer JRE aka Java SE 6 update N aka Java […]
In the first week of May, many in the Java community will meet at JavaOne in San Francisco. It’s the biggest Java conference of the year. At last year’s JavaOne, Sun announced the new JavaFX brand, aimed at generating a renewed interest among developers for creating consumer applications by using Java. One big announcement was […]
Interesting news from Sun. Sun’s VP Java Marketing just told The Register that Sun will be making a version of Java for iPhone. It seems that they feel that the iPhone SDK offers enough freedom that they can build a JVM on top of it. Here’s the quote…
We’ve spent the last 24 hours furiously looking […]
Back in May of this year, I wrote a post predicting that 2008 would see a renaissance in interest for using Java as platform for developing consumer applications. As we approach the end of 2007, it’s clear that innovation centered on making Java suitable for consumer applications is accelerating. If you’re a developer, […]
The technical details of Android, the new Google mobile phone OS platform, are now out. There are many articles on the Web discussing the new platform, many of which seem to get things horribly wrong. So, I thought I’d try to put some perspective on Android here…
First, the web browser. At the Android […]