The General Keynote at the JavaOne Conference was presented by Rich Green and James Gosling. They discussed the growing use of Java technology, from the Internet, to computers, cell phones and then to thermostats and switches. They also talked about the Java Specification Request #172 (JSR #172), Nokia's Tradepoint Broker Service was demonstrated, Sun's commitment to Java technology on Microsoft Windows and the Liberty Alliance Project.
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Sun is introducing new Java Virtual Machine (JVM) solutions that exponentially improve the performance of Java technology-based networked devices. The two new JVMs for Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) and Connected Device Configuration (CDC)/Dynamic Compiler, are expected to deliver a level of performance up to ten times higher than existing virtual machine technologies in a very small footprint. Sun is collaborating with ARM, and Symbian to deliver this technology to consumer devices.
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The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) User's Guide is available as an 80-page PDF. JAXB provides a fast, convenient way to create a two-way mapping between XML documents and Java technology objects. Sections of the user guide include an Introduction to JAXB, XML Basics, How JAXB Works, Binding a Schema to Classes, Building Data Representations and Working With the Data.
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David Flanagan's just-released fourth edition of "Java in a Nutshell" covers the new classes and interfaces for the 1.4 version of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition. It covers the many new classes in v 1.4, including the NIO, logging and SML functionality. It also contains an accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key APIs.
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Sun will bundle the Forte for Java wireless toolkit, Java technology blueprints and APIs based on the new Java Specification Request (JSR) approved by the Java Community Process Program (JCP) to make it even easier for developers to create and display Web services to these devices.
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Sun has formed a new Java Center of Excellence service designed to help Fortune 500 companies advance their in-house development staff's best practices, processes and skill sets to improve their ongoing delivery of Java technology-based projects. As a result, key early adopters of this new service are improving quality of service, reducing costs, enhancing their agility and increasing ROI in delivering products and services through the Web.
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More than 35 companies demonstrated NetBeans and Forte for Java Software products and integrations that are "Built on NetBeans" technology at the JavaOne Conference. Third-party products range from wireless device emulation software to Web services infrastructure products. This article features some of the companies, listed alphabetically. The others will be featured next week.
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Java technology is being adopted widely by the wireless content community as the defacto standard for wireless data services. More than 200 companies worldwide currently deliver Java technology-based content deployed by operators such as NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, J-Phone, LG Telecom Nextel, CSL and many others. Many of these solutions were demonstrated at JavaOne Developer Conference 2002.
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A panel discussion on the future of the Java platform and XML was headed by Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist at Sun. Participating was Rob Gingell, chief technology officer for the Sun Software Group; John Bosak, chair of the original XML working group at the World Wide Web Consortium; and James Gosling, the creator of Java technology. The key points of the panel were reported on by Ed Ort and consisted of how successfully Java technology is working with XML and what the next stage is, namely "social engineering," meaning semantic standardization.
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