James Gosling: on the Java Road
Friday May 09, 2008
My keynote this morning went off flawlessly. You can watch it on UStream. I'd like to thank everyone who contributed: The demos were all incredibly inspirational. I was in awe of every one of them. The main hall at Moscone was packed. The production crew was totally perfect, despite all the re-arranging of the plan. And the Sun crew were their usual wonderful selves.
My keynote is easy. Everybody else doing talks at JavaOne has to figure out what to say. I poke around the community and grab stuff. There's so much cool stuff being done that the hardest part of putting the toy show together is picking. I just have to stand back in awe and ask a few inane questions.
Controlling the most complex instrument ever made by mankind.... (the Large Hadron Collider) Surfing a constellation of satellites around mars and mining their data... A pen as a computing platform... The realtime stuff becoming mainstream.... Instrumenting the world... Another generation of smart cards... And smart cars... Massive graphical acceleration on a cell phone... Killer massively multiplayer games... Great web infrastructure tools for creating and introspecting... "the network is the computer" Hah! => "the network is the world"
But the best part was helping to give John Gage his well deserved lifetime achievement award.
Now it's time for a beach and a beer.
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Hi James,
I watched all the JavaOne webcasts and thought they were absolutely brilliant,inciteful and it really knocked me for four.I come from a C/C++ backgound and my main gripe always was that Java was interpreted,glad to see the performance metrics are cool.The other gripe I also had was more to do with numerical precision,kinda like what mathematica has(which I used to code in 1991).
I went to a Java conference n Cork,Ireland back in 1996 and was not impressed at the time.I worked on an implementation of the Netinfo manager for Mac OS X and it didn't look Mac like if you know what I mean.
But to be honest,my opinion has been changed seriously in the past year, first of all with the performance issues, then using the Eclipse enviroment with the googlephone plugin,I just went wow! I'm impressed that all new hardware is using java to write code even instrumentation,wow! JavaFX is the the business,what with integrated sound,video etc etc,now that is impressive.I was also delighted to hear that I will be able to use django,must pick it up,and can use JavaFX for the media rich content.
The pen computer,the senticalla sensors etc etc
The singlurality most impressive demo was JavaFX running on a cell phone with 3D sound
There are a lot more 'good' things I could say,but keep up the good work.I was actually awaiting with anticipation you keynote speech on Friday.I would never have thought that back in 1996.
Thanking you,
Pio O'Connell
Mallow,Cork,Ireland
Posted by Pio O'Connell on May 10, 2008 at 05:53 AM PDT #
hi
Posted by 121.244.164.65 on May 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM PDT #
Hi James!
I'm Jean-François, the guy who told you about a JUG and Java training group in Congo. I continue to look for somewhere where Congo JUG members can pass Java tests for certification. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any useful information.
It was my first JavaOne edition: great experience! I hope to come back next year. The demo of JavaFX widgets from desktop to web was amazing. The most interest session was AJAX Push by Jean-François Arcand and Ted Goddard.
About me: I am the leader of Java training group and Architect at Fujitsu Consulting (located in Quebec City, Canada).
Posted by Jean-François Bonbhel on May 13, 2008 at 06:41 PM PDT #
Loved the talk, quite inspirational! and some very exciting things happening with Java these days!
I've been using Java for 12 years and I'm constantly surprised by the number of new applications. As a developer it's getting hard to know where to focus!
Currently I'm stepping away from investment banking (need I say more) and shifting focus to JOGL and gaming, so it was really nice to see some coverage and backing for Java as a serious gaming platform.
Now if only Apple would get fully onboard with Java ;)
Posted by Peter Bridge on May 15, 2008 at 03:14 AM PDT #
Thanks for article.
Posted by Araba Yarışları on May 16, 2008 at 01:57 AM PDT #
Nice infos. Thanks.
Posted by Yemek Oyunları on May 16, 2008 at 02:01 AM PDT #
JavaCard 3 baby!!! The contest sounds very interesting. I can imagine the contestants going crazy trying to manage the card's RAM. Having such a complex algorithm in a smart card goes to show how much this lil friends (only in size) have advanced.
Posted by Piero on May 16, 2008 at 11:34 AM PDT #