Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Java One Opening

Consumers drives technology innovation.


Rich Green opened up Java One by describing the shift to consumer focused innovation. He got company from Amazon demonstrating the Kindle book reader.

Next on stage was Rikko, SVP from Sony Ericsson that talked about the use of sensors in mobile phones, showing a vision video about seamless networks and unified media.Java is the core strategy to realize this vision.

Nandini was demonstrating a JavaFX mash-up application embedded in a browser. Next thing she was dragging it out off the browser on to the desktop, where it continued to run whith the browser shut down. Also, a desktop shortcut is created, so the JavaFX application can be started without the browser. It looks really neat, and the crowd loved it!

JavaFX to run on all devices.

The same application was also run on a Java ME feature phone.

Later, Eric Klein showcased the same demo running on an Android emulator.

Neil Young on stage!

Rock star Neil Young announcing the release of his entire career on BluRay. Including really cool navigation around songs, pictures, videos, etc.

http://www.java.com/en/java_in_action/neil_young.jsp

Finally, it was the first time I've seen Rich not wearing all black! He actually had blue jeans to his black jacket today.

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