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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 […]
Today, we’ve had the first glimpse into Sun’s future plans for cloud computing, which will be based around the brand new OpenSolaris OS (just released today, after being in preview for some time). You may, or may not, know that Sun already has a cloud computing offering, called Network.com. So far, this has been focused […]
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 […]
If you’ve ever watched an interview with Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz, or read his blog, you’ll realise he has the phenotype of a great CEO. If you’ve bought any Sun servers in recent years, you’ll also know Sun makes some great hardware. If you’ve had a problem during the buying process, you’ll know […]
In the last few days, Sun Microsystems seems to have launched an on-demand utility computing offering that allows software companies to provide their software through a SaaS (Software as a Service) model. At least, I thought that’s what it was…
Sun calls it - “Solaris On Demand”. From the name, if sounds like it could […]
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. […]
I thought it was clear. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems said that all of Sun’s software was to be Free and Open Source. I don’t remember the precise date on which this decision was made - but I think it was early 2006. At the end of November 2006, Jonathan wrote the following on […]
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 […]