Sun Tech Days, Milan

Hi. I'm Ed Ort and I'm on the staff of java.sun.com. I've been at Sun for over 7 years and I've had the pleasure of covering the JavaOne Conference each of those years. This year I feel equally lucky to be covering the Sun Tech Days event in Milan, September 26-28.

I've got to admit, I'm psyched! There will be lots of great technical sessions and labs to attend, covering the wide wide world of Java development -- from Java on the mobile phone, to Java on the desktop, to Java in the enterprise. And there'll be some terrific sessions on Solaris and system administration too.

Wait. I forgot to mention the community "days", parallel tracks on the first day of the event devoted to NetBeans, OpenSolaris, University, and GlassFish topics.

Alas, there are too many great things to see and do, and too little time to do them all. I've got to make some initial decisions on what I want to cover. I've come up with the following initial list:

• Wed., Sept 26:
  • GlassFish Day (1:00 P.M. to 7:10 P.M.)
• Thurs., Sept. 27
  • Sun Technical Demo -- Sang Shin, Sridhar Reddy, Doris Chen, Philip Torchinsky, Inyoung Cho (9:10 A.M. - 9:50 A.M.)
  • Sun Keynote -- Jeff Jackson (1:10 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.)
  • Java Scripting: Java FX Script and JRuby -- Inyong Cho (5:30 P.M. - 6:20 P.M.)

I'll likely cover all of those sessions as blogs. But for those of you more visually inclined, I plan to do a video interview on Friday, Sept. 28 with NetBeans evangelist Roman Strobl on what's new and cool in NetBeans. I've been doing some interesting technical "deep dive" video interviews recently -- check them out.

Let me know if there are additional (or alternative) things you'd like me to cover. Hey what's missing a little sleep in an event as chock full of fun stuff as this in a place as interesting as Milan?

Hope to see you there.

See the Sun Tech Days website to learn more about these events.