Friday May 16, 2008
Top 10 JavaOne 2008 Rich Client things
Filed under: consumerjre javafx javame javaone javase7
Here's my top 10 list from Java on the client at JavaOne this year. Enjoy x 10 !
| Top
10 |
What
is it ? |
Know
more... |
| JavaFX
SDK |
The
JavaFX SDK is (almost) here ! |
Hot
demos (there
were quite a few) and a cool new
website are all good, but signing up
for the SDK to get it next month or so is going to be
awesome. Its built with Java,
built on Java. Its built in Java. JavaFX can run parleys.com. Did I mention its fast ? |
| JDK 6 is everywhere | JDK bundled with Linux, JDK 6 for Mac |
On
stage, I mentioned that the JDK,
from the OpenJDK JDK6 project, is
bundled with the latest
release of the Ubuntu distro. Since then, its started shipping
inside Red Hat's Fedora 9, and Red Hat's Enterprise Lunix
too. Who's next ? And, have you tried the JDK 6 release for OS-X yet ? |
| The
Consumer JRE |
Get the latest beta of JRE 6u10, its quick, quick, quick. | Quick
to
download,
quick to install,
quick to start
applets. Applets that you can pull out of the web page. Applets that can live beyond the browser and drop onto the desktop. Applets that developers can write in Java or designers can write in JavaFX Script. See and believe that applets are back. |
| VisualVM |
Get the release candidate of THE single cockpit for watching, diagnosing and tuning Java applications. | If
you thought JConsole
was cool, you need to check
VisualVM out. It integrates all the management
and profiling tools for
Sun's JDK into a graphical environment. See
it for yourself. |
| On2
Media and JavaFX |
Cross
screen video, cross device
sound. |
Finally,
one rich media format you can
depend on
that spans
all the devices you own. Because it'll be built into
JavaFX. |
| JavaFX
Tools |
First
views of new tooling. |
You've
had the NetBeans support for
nearly a
year for JavaFX Script - and Eclipse
support for that matter - but we previewed a new tool called JavaFX
Distiller (see here:
jump to minute 14). If you've ever written a GUI, and needed a
little artistic help from a visual designer, this is one you need
to know about. |
| Java
ME LWUIT |
Making
better looking
applications easier on today's Java ME devices. |
This
is a new open source community
project
in early access to add some portable
fit and finish to your MIDP 2.0 applications. Shrinking some of the familar
core pieces of the Swing framework, all you need is the NetBean
Mobility pack to get started with
it. |
| Java
SE 7 sightings |
Modularity, OSGi and turbo charging multiple languages | I
talked with Bob about some of the pieces we'd like to
include in Java SE 7 that are progressing well. Here
also are my session slides with more detail. In particular, the Java
Module System, and its support for OSGi
in JDK 7 (which is gaining some
encouraging support) and the DaVinci project for accelerating
multiple language support which has started producing
prototypes. |
| BluRay,
Java and Neil Young |
Java
as foundation for HD
content. |
In
January, BluRay emerged as the winner of the biggest
format war for a
generation. So just in case you didn't know BD-J, the programming
model for interactive BluRay content (so its on all the BluRay
players), is based on Java
ME (Personal
Basis Profile, to be precise), and Neil Young announced he's
releasing his full catalog on BluRay, using BD-J to provide all the
interactivity. |
| Java
SE Performance |
Latest high performance release
of Java
SE |
Its
tuned for the racetrack and breaking
records ! |
Posted by dannycoward ( May 16 2008, 03:23:28 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [15]
Tuesday October 02, 2007
Consumerizing Java on the Desktop
Filed under: consumerjre javafx
Heard the early roll of thunder about a project called the 'Consumer JRE' last JavaOne ?
Yesterday it came a step closer to reality: We've released an early access version of an major update to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on Windows platforms, specifically focusing on features of the JRE needed by consumer content.
(You may have noticed we're pretty into that these days, and there'll be much more on that over the coming months.)
We're calling this JRE 'Java SE
6 Update N' (just don't get me started on why).
This is an Early Access version. Did I mention that already ? Early
Access means that its not finished yet:
we have more features to add, and more work tuning the ones that are
there. In particular, we haven't yet added the JavaKernel
work, which
radically slims down the initial download of the JRE (you will notice
this EA is still a substantial download). Also, we haven't done nearly
as much testing on
it as we will before its finished, but we figured we'd get it out
there. We have a massive test framework for Java SE these days, but
none so large as all the Java desktop applications written since 1996.Here's what's in and what's not in it:-
| Feature |
Is
it in this Early Access Version ? |
What's
that for ? |
| Java
Quickstarter |
Yes
! |
Making
applets and applications start really quickly, first time Java is
launched. |
| Deployment
Toolkit |
Yes
! |
Applets
can tell which version of the JRE is on the machine they just landed on. |
| Hardware
Acceleration |
Yes
! |
Faster
rendering of Swing apps, especially ones using features like
translucent windows, using Direct3D on Windows |
| Nimbus
Look and Feel |
Yes
! |
A
refreshing new look and feel to add to your choices - check it
out here. |
| Java
Kernel ? |
No,
but coming soon in the JRE ! |
Modularizing
the JRE into a small initial download, the rest coming down in parallel. |
| New
APIs ? |
No
new APIs. |
This
is our implementation of the Java SE 6 platform.
So there won't be any new developer APIs until Java SE
7 is done. |
There've been a variety of reactions already about this already. Try it yourself and let us know, but you may need paper tissues handy ;).
Posted by dannycoward ( Oct 02 2007, 05:12:15 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [4]
Wednesday May 30, 2007
Souvenirs from JavaOne 2007
Filed under: javafx javaone javase7 postcards
In the wake of JavaOne 2007, here are a couple of souvenirs for those of you who could not make it. As promised, here are my slides for my presentation on Java SE Present and Future, and here is a picture of my Java SE: Ask the Experts BOF.
From left to right: Chet Haase, Lance Anderson, Mark Reinhold, Stanley Ho, Paul Hohensee, Dave Dagastine, Alan Bateman, Andreas Sterbenz and Danny Coward.
My favorite souvenir was the dark horse announcement I made about the Consumer JRE and how it got picked up all over the place.
Posted by dannycoward ( May 30 2007, 12:07:25 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]
Thursday May 10, 2007
JavaOne 2007, Java SE, JavaFX and me
Filed under: javafx javaone javase6
As I mentioned to about 15,000 of you on Tuesday morning, it really has been a busy year. For myself in particular over the last few months, trying to figure out and select the various pieces of our new focus on consumer technology JavaFX (as you can imagine, given we have been devoted to many masters, this takes and will take some hard work from us) has taken me shamefully away from you, my dear reader.
So in contrast to previous years, when JavaOne has been a maelstrom of activity dwarfing my daily routine, this year its the other way round for me. Not least because, living as I do in San Francisco, I can bike to work this week.
I mentioned on a JavaLobby thread last weekend that I would post out everything I presented at JavaOne. I had a segment in Sun's technical keynote (go Java SE !!!). I'd recommend watching the whole thing here, or if you only want the segment on Java SE (hi mum !), including a great JRuby/NetBeans demo by Charlie and Tor here it is:-
I have to say the above was somewhat terrifying to prepare for. Especially the moment on Sunday when I walked behind the main stage to go update one of the statistics in my talk, you know, expecting someone homely reading a magazine next to an old flickering PC who would be able to help me out. Instead I saw a battery of brightly lit screens, banks of randomly flashing lights and dozens of people seemingly dressed in black Prada gliding wordlessly from station to station, apparently keeping the whole of the Moscone Center, and all the people in it and possibly much of California, humming with efficient serenity.
I also kicked
off the Java SE track with a talk on where Java SE is and
where its going. It includes a slide detailing the changing face of
James over the lifetime of
Java, which caused a little ripple
of merriment. I'll post that slide deck when I get it back from the
JavaOne team. The number in question I wanted to edit was an update in the number of downloads of JDK 6 since December 11th when we released it. An update including the April 2007 numbers. Which brings the total so far to 2,090,155. This is roughly twice the adoption rate of J2SE 5.0 in its first 5 months.
*Twice* !!
Your eleventh reason to upgrade to Java SE 6 ?
Everyone else is.
Posted by dannycoward ( May 10 2007, 11:04:25 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [6]
