On Friday May 9th, JC3Bot contest was played in James Gosling's keynote. The two robots were played from two Java Card 3.0 Prototype cards. Winner was declared right there and he got the PS3 :). Laurent from Gemalto is there in the picture along with 2 final contestants, and, the other person is well known to every one :)

This was a great thing. Congratulations and Thanks to all Sun employees who worked on the Java Card 3.0 Reference Implementation, and preparing materials for Java One, and, all Gemalto team for making the prototype cards available for the attendees.

I gave a Technical Session in JavaOne with my colleague Bela Gangal, and, Eric Vétillard of Trusted Labs. This is my first ever session in my life :). I guess we did fine. We demonstrated NetBeans plug-in at the end of the session.

There were mostly JavaEE people. A few who knows Java Card. I think all the sessions will be available on the net very soon along with audio. If interested what Java Card 3 is all about, don;t forget to check out the material for "TS5940 Getting Started with Java Card 3.0 Platform".
 

It was really a hectic week. Didn't get time to blog while JavaOne is going on. Had to go to Mascone Center 2 days before JavaOne started :( to do the final round of testing. All the hard work is paid off. It definitely was a success event for Java Card 3. There was enough crowd participating in JC3Bot contest.

I am sure that the idea of Running Web Application from the card definitely raised some interest. If you missed this event, please go and check http://java.sun.com/javacard/contest page to download the Java Card Development kit. Hurry, it won;t be available after few days. This release is special for JavaOne event.