Jonathan Schwartz gave a great opening keynote as expected...
A lot of focus on the non-traditional markets. Total Java marketplace numbers placed at $100B. The mobile gaming market was estimated at $3B.
The demo using MedicTouch with has a device that monitors vitals via bluetooth to a mobile phone probably confirmed that Jonathan was powering through the presentation with a flu.
According to Jonathan, the next wave will be automotive. To that effect, Siemens VDO gave a cool demo of a BMW that was driven into the keynote to demonstrate the infotainment services. Some shots of the car, screen and the interface that sits next to the drive stick below:
With a combination of manual control and voice recognition, it was impressive to see.
Discussions with a CFO in the Auto industry provided insights such as it may be feasible to provide a monthly subscription pricing of $220/month and give away the car for free based on the services that may be able to be provided.
Jonathan gave a great example of how this may work in practice. At a meeting at an Auto corporation, discussions began around the mobile phone ringtone phenomena, and a younger person at the meeting suggested the possibility of downloading a car horn tone to the car much in the same way. After the immediate laughter at the JavaOne audience had subsided, Jonathan said that the same thing happened at the meeting in that after the initial burst of laughter there was an odd silence as the people in the room suddenly had the realisation that this kid may really be on to something.
Project KittyHawk was announced to provided implementation towards Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions with the Java Enterprise System and Java Studio Enterprise solution areas.
Open Source announcements for Looking Glass, Java 3D , JDIC and JDNC were also tabled
With all the wireless laptops whirring away at JavaOne, it feels eerie that I can blog bloggers who are blogging ( Tim Bray - caught in the act ):
General Session from Borland....
Positioning was to abstract detail from the developer when needed but allow detail when necessary. Interesting slide on "Age Appropriate Tools" with a kid and toys, with turn of phrase J2EZ ( pronounced jay-too-ee-zee )
Three Big Rules:
- use the right tools for the right job
- use the tools that work together
- don't get trapped
Talked about the concept of "legacy" Java code which i thought was novel