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Today

It's June graduation season and JavaOne made it official: Java graduated from a great desktop platform to an amazing platform for all-the-screens-of-your-life. I was blown away at JavaOne by three key concepts: one platform for all devices, one amazing toolset, and one store to go to for app distribution.

When Java came to life in 1995, the web went from an endless series of hyperlinks to a platform that delivered live content. Which is exactly why Java is on more than a billion computers in the world today. And it's cuz of those billion computers that we keep innovating in JDK 7 for the desktop and Java EE for the enterprise.

But it's 2009 and almost a third of Internet access today is through mobile devices. And the percentage of mobile Internet users is expected to surpass those using traditional computers in the next few years! So while the desktop, laptop, and enterprise computer remain important, there are so many new ways to access content on the web. And they were all on display at JavaOne, running the same apps across smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, e-books, set-top boxes, TVs. So basically any device you chose can now run the same application! Check out Eric's keynote for the full story.

LG TV Kindle NetBook

But there are two other key pieces to the Java story this year: first Nandini showed the JavaFX authoring tool which lets you create graphical applications easily, and then you can send the app directly to a whole bunch of devices simultaneously. And last but not least - the Java Store - the key to distribution for developers. Cuz if Java's gonna run on everything around us, and more and more developers are gonna write interesting apps for all those devices using the new tools, we're all gonna be looking for a handy way to get ahold of those apps.

Graduation is about accomplishment, but it's also about potential. So congrats to Java and the whole team (including Jeet, my charm school buddy Octavian, Eric, and the JavaOne peeps: Ash, Lizzi, Kim, Jen, Heidi...). And here's looking forward to seeing Java everywhere. The potential is unlimited!