Wednesday May 31, 2006
Wednesday May 31, 2006
JavaOne rev. 2
So I went to JavaOne for the second time. Last year was my first trip
and I was much better about blogging about it. This year I was pretty
slack about it. Probably mostly because I didn't get to go to many
sessions. Last year I was a "pretend" speaker but this year I was
actually speaking. I was part of a session where three of us from the
(jit) compiler group talked about new compiler optimizations in the
Hotspot JVM. So I got my literal 15 minutes of fame.
It was actually more fame than I expected since I was anticipating we
were going to get assigned a small room of to the side somewhere. I was
pretty surprised when we got Gateway 102/103 which I think except for
the General Sesssions is the biggest room in the place. Someone like
Josh Bloch can fill the place (and overflow) we only managed to get it
maybe 1/3 full. I thought it went well but we'll see what the audience
thought when we get access to the results of the evaluations.
I got to talk a little bit about tiered compilation and where we stand
on it. I alos volunteered that if people were brave they could download
mustang source and build a tiered system and try it. No one took me up
on it but coming up afterward and asking how to do it. So either no one
is that brave or maybe they were just being sensible?
I spent a good bit of time at the SunSPOT
booth doing 3 shifts of demos and such. It was really sort of funny.
Months ago when the call went out for booth duty sign up when I went to
look for a spot all of the times for booths that were related to my job
were already taken. So I looked for something interesting to do. I had
blogged about SunSPOT before so I figured I'd sign up so I could learn
more about it and maybe make of with one. :-)
A week before JavaOne I got an email from Roger Meike who is the
director in Sun Labs that is doing this work asking who I was and why
did I sign up for booth duty on his project. I explained the situation
and as luck would have it another person in his group
used to work here in Cary and he vouched for me. So I got a little
training on it before JavaOne and by the end of my shifts I was almost
an expert. They are really cool I wish I had the time (and money) to
actually put some to use but I see my plane building as likely to soak
up most of my free time.
May 31 2006, 05:13:40 PM EDT
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