Java One 2009

Yesterday was the first day at JavaOne, actually the first day was something called Community one, the weather in San Fransisco was bad (hmm I think it always is !), at the same time the weather in Denmark is excellent ... so this has been a little annoying ;-) but anyway we where (we the group from Denmark) out biking around San Fransisco almost biking 40 km on sunday so my legs was a little tired monday. But back to the important part the sessions on monday.

The general session in monday was a bit boring, maybe it was the focused on Open Solaris, I think i didn't found the reason to shift from my ubuntu to Open Solaris based on this season, not that i am saying that that where there purpose.

During the day I was going to different session, i general i was a little disappointed, they where not deep enough, or maybe it was that they where not precise enough, when that is said i was attending for instance a session about android development which gave some good tips.

Without any comparison the best session, was in my opinion about project darkstar, this area that they are working with is without doubt a growt area, the trend is going towards more and more devices is connected and we are as it was said all gamers.. so off course we need a gaming engine.

At the same time Mobile platform increasing important for gaming also growing, new experience which console and desktop can not bring like new possibilities which only is can be done on the mobile platform.

Very interesting really want to go home a try to make a simple multiplayer came... for instance for my son, which has requested that :-), since he understood that I working on making software for computers.

A disappoint session I was attending, was about how Community participating or die, I had expected that he will tell me how to convince a company why they should use time and energy on open source software, and he was not able to convince me, why!! because i am working in a consultant company, and as i see it, if we in the company begin investing money in a open source project is going to loss our independency because we then actually are developing a product and we will try to convince or customer to use that... at least if we get involved, we are going to change our business model and we should be aware of that.

So community will properly be spare time :-)

Today was the big day. JavaOne started, all the giraffes where there gosling, McNealy and also .. Eliason from Oracle, everybody was happy to hear that Java was save.. Oracle will keep investing and only minor change will happen... most interesting in think was that Open Office is going on the web using JavaFx. JavaFx is actually in my opinion and interesting technology, which i will have to look into when i come back home.