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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…
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 ) […]
One of my favourite sayings is a quote from Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz - different isn’t always better, but better’s always different. So, I’m a fan of a lot of the super-innovative work that Apple does. However, their thinking is sometimes different to the point of not making any commercial sense. The iPhone is […]
JavaOne 2008 is almost upon us. What will the big story be this year? In order to figure that out, it’s worth taking a look back to see what the big story was at JavaOne 2007. A year ago, the big announcements were around the new JavaFX platform, most of which simply didn’t exist. […]
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 […]
The world of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) just took a couple of fascinating turns. Silverlight version 2 is now out in beta; and it looks… well it looks TOTALLY AMAZING. It can be programmed using serious, elegant, programming languages; it has great tool support; and a version of Silverlight is coming to mobile phones […]