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Today is the last day of the 2008 JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. 

It's the world's largest developer's conference and every year it ends with James Gosling showcasing "extreme innovation."

The JavaOne 2008 Twitterverse and blog-o-sphere are already buzzing about what the keynote will feature.

(Including the blog authored by my very favorite blogger)

Don't miss it.

The fun begins at 8:30 a.m. pacific today. If you're not at JavaOne, you can watch it on the web.

Every JavaOne has an original James Gosling designed t-shirt that goes with it. 

Here's this year's design (hot off the press, uh, the blog):

James, John Gage and Chris Melissinos even came up with an interesting way of giving them out at the General Session. 

:-)

Here's what's on the calendar for JavaOne activity in Second Life today. 

SDN and You: Focus Group
Heidi Dailey
Outbound Marketing Manager
Sun Microsystems
11:00-12:00
JavaOne Theater
Come discuss the Sun Developer Network: what's working, what's not, and what you'd like to see in the future.

JavaFX
Nandini Ramadi
Director
JavaFX
1:00-2:00
The JavaFX family of products comprises a set of runtime environments, widgets, development tools, and scripting environments based on Java technology. Attend this session to learn more about what's on the horizon for JavaFX.

JavaOne Party
4-5PM
Club Java
Live Tunes, JavaOne Trivia, and Terrific Giveaways. Don't miss it!

Join us in world.  

We're thrilled to announce the winners of this year's Duke's Choice Awards!

Please join us in congratulating:

Category: Java Technology in Broadcasting
Step2e GmbH & Co. KG
Product: Step2e Broadcast
Java technologies: J2SE 5.0 platform, J2EE 1.4 platform

Description: Step2e Broadcast is a 100 percent Java technology-based application for midsize TV and radio stations. This multiuser Swing application with a central SQL database provides workflow automation, content management, and billing. Platform-independent management software Step2e Broadcast features flexible plug-in technology based on a service framework, so it can be easily extended or modified to meet the customer's specifications.

Category: Digital Imaging
Cocchiaro Music
Product: PerfectImage
Java technologies: J2SE 5.0 platform, Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1.2_01

Description: PerfectImage is an end-user Java technology application for displaying and editing digital images from a variety of input sources, including digital cameras. Built with the Java platform and Java advanced imaging technology, it runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, Solaris OS, and Mac OS X. The graphical user interface uses an explorer/details style paradigm that is intuitive, easy to use, and useful.

Category: Java Everywhere
UpNext
Product: UpNext.com
Java technologies: Java Runtime Environment 1.4, 1.5.0, 1.6.0 for applets

Description: UpNext.com creates 3-D cityscapes accessible through the browser using a Java applet. Users can search by keyword or category, or click building by building on the cityscape to find events, restaurants, and other businesses, then write reviews of them. The company currently maps Manhattan (New York) and plans to deliver interactive maps of Boston and San Francisco this year.

Category: Java Technology in Education
Crick Software Ltd
Product: WriteOnline
Java technologies: J2SE 5.0 and Java SE 6 technology

Description: Online literacy tool WriteOnline combines word processing with banks of words, phrases, and web addresses for users to include as they write. A voice-reader function reads aloud the text from the user's document or the program's vocabulary panels. WriteOnline also allows the teacher to identify items that the student has corrected with a spell-checker and text that the student has copied and pasted from other sources.

Category: Medical Solutions
University of the Philippines – Dillman
Product: Expert System for Poisoning (ESP)
Java technologies: Java SE 6 platform, GWT 1.4, JClips, Eclipse3.2 JDT, MySQL Connector/J 5.1.5

Description: The Expert System for Poisoning (ESP) provides tools to diagnose and treat poisoning, for use particularly in areas of the Philippines that lack adequate health care. The user enters signs and symptoms observed in a patient, and the system outputs a list of matching poisoning types and possible treatments for the medical attendant to use.

Category: Pervasive Solutions
Sentilla
Product: Mote
Java technologies: Java ME on CLDC

Description: Sentilla's mote product links nodes in a wireless sensor network. These coin-sized pervasive computers interact with the real world -- for example, measuring temperature and humidity or detecting movement -- and communicate with one another to share data and deploy applications. The sensor-based peripherals can include GPS, light sensors, and pressure sensors, among others.

Category: Mobile Device
LiveScribe
Product: Pulse Smartpen
Java technologies: Java ME CLDC With Media Profile

Description: The Pulse Smartpen is a Java technology-based mobile computing platform that captures handwriting, records audio, and synchronizes the two. It features Java ME CLDC running on a Samsung ARM 9 processor, a high-speed infrared camera with a dot-positioning system, a rechargeable lithium battery, dual microphones, a USB connector, a high-contrast OLED display, and a 3-D recording headset.

Category: Science Research
CERN
Product: Java technology-based applications developed for Large Hadron Collider
Java technologies: Java SE and Java EE platforms, Java 2D API, Java 3D API, Swing, web services, EJBs, JavaServer Pages, servlets, JNDI, JMS, CORBA, and many more.

Description: Now under construction at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world's largest particle physics laboratory, is the world's most complex scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC will probe the dark matter and energy that make up 96 percent of the universe, investigate nature's preference for matter over antimatter, unravel the mystery of mass, and probe matter as it existed at the beginning of time.

Category: Java Technology in Education
Product: L360 Solution
Java technologies: Java SE and Java EE platforms, Swing, Java Web Start, NetBeans Visual Library, Oracle Database EE, Oracle Application Server EE, Oracle Customer Data Hub, Oracle Content Database

Description: The L360 Solution is a tool to gather information about students, then analyze and diagnose it to support effective schools. The Learning 360 Student Data Hub collects information about the student's educational progress over time. With the Learning 360 Learning Tool, teachers review the student's progress and plan learning activities. Parents use the tool to review progress, contribute to, and collaborate in the learning experience.

Category: Developer Solutions
Hudson
Product: Hudson
Java technologies: J2SE 5.0 platform, Java Web Start, JavaMail, servlets; stapler, Groovy, Maven, Ant, Apache Commons, JFreeChart, dom4j, Jaxen, Acegi security, and JCaptcha libraries

Description: Hudson is an open-source continuous integration system written in the Java platform that enables developers to automate various aspects of the development process like builds and tests, as well as bring transparency to projects. Its emphasis is on ease of use and extensibility, which has enabled the community to develop more than 50 plug-ins to date.

Category: Mobile Gaming
mPowerPlay
Product: mPowerPlay
Java technologies: Java SE, Java EE, and Java ME platforms; Java servlets, Java Web Start, JDIC, Swing, Java 2D API, Java Open GL APIs, Java Cryptography Extension, Tomcat

Description: The iTunes of the mobile games industry, mPowerPlay uses the power of the Java platforms to market Java ME technology-based games on the PC, Mac, Linux, and Solaris platforms. The mPowerPlayer.com portal allows users to try mobile games online and provides over 1 million game demos each month. Customers include EA Mobile and Sprint/Nextel.

Category: Fans' Choice
OpenOffice
Product: OpenOffice
Java technologies: Java SE platform, NetBeans IDE, OpenOffice.org API Plug-in for NetBeans, BeanShell, JOpenDocument

Description: OpenOffice 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases, and more. This free suite is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open-standard format and can read and write files from other common office software packages. Read about available extensions, APIs that simplify the creation and generation of OpenDocument Format (ODF) documents, and the third-party library available for ODF file manipulation.

The Duke's Choice awards contest will open again in early 2009, and winners will be announced at the 2009 JavaOne conference. If you have any questions about the awards, send an email to the team.

Check out the new look on Java.com! 

Making me feel like I need a make-over over here.

:-)

Duke

Couldn't make it to San Francisco to be at JavaOne this week? 

Check out Andreas Ebbert-Karroum's blog entry on How to Follow JavaOne Without Attending.

And along those lines, here's the line-up for what's on tap in Second Life for JavaOne today.

Tuesday, May 6

Sun in Second Life
Fiona Gallagher
Senior Project Manager, Second Life
Sun Microsystems
Chris Hiett
Project Operations Manager, Second Life
Sun Microsystems
Jessica Orquina
Project Manager, Second Life
Sun Microsystems
11:00-12:00pm
JavaOne Theater
Fiona Gallagher and team discuss the past year of Sun's presence in Second Life and what is planned for the near future

OpenSolaris OS
Glynn Foster
OpenSolaris Product Manager
Sun Microsystems
1:00-2:00PM
JavaOne Theater
The first official release of OpenSolaris OS, 2008.05.05, has now hit the streets. OpenSolaris OS is a first in a new series of 6 monthly releases, with brand new features like an improved installation experience, network package repository and ZFS as the default file-system. This release also includes a more intuitive environment for Linux migrants.

Using NetBeans in Industry
Paul Clevett
Developer
phj Solutions Ltd
3:00-4:00PM
JavaOne Theater
What challenges are faced using Java to develop applications for real life clients? Paul Clevett talks about some of the projects he is responsible for including some of the challenges and some of the successes.