Jon Byous reported on the JavaOneSM Conference keynote of March 28 which featured discussions about JavaTM technology and the future. Taking part in the discussion were John Gage of Sun; Paul Saffo, director of the Institute of the Future; Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA; Adam Bosworth of BEA; Ernie Cormier, Bob Ewald and Ragu Rau of Nextel.

Saffo talked about the difference between mass media (for example, TV) and personal media (for example, Internet on a mobile device). Wireless technology is bringing the two together. He predicted that peer-to-peer computing will be one of the next technologies to create a media of its own.

Alfred Chuang talked about mobile computing and distributing data and applications to anyone at any time. Joining the topic of Java technology and Web services was Adam Bosworth, a key architect for many of Microsoft's products, including Internet Explorer, Access, VisualBasic and .NET.

Bosworth stated Java technology is clean, but "there is too much infrastructure plumbing. We need to hide the plumbing to keep things simple." He recommended using JavaServer PagesTM (JSPTM) technology and servlets.

Chuang made three predictions for next year's JavaOne Conference:

• A standard framework will exist and proliferate. He recommended reading Java Specification Request (JSR) 181 as an example.

• A new way of providing application-level security will be developed to deal with the exposure of applications within Web services.

• Powerful application-level management capabilities will evolve.

Another part of the keynote centered around Nextel's use of Java technology. Nextel's Mobile Application Manager software lets enterprises support cellular applications down to the specific user, distribute those applications to authorized users individually or as a group, and manage all of the users' handsets from a single resource, available anywhere through any browser.

A panel discussion consisted of Justin Hibbard of Red Herring; Scott Dietzen of BEA; Thomas Kurian of Oracle; Simon Phipps of Sun; Simon Pepper of IONA; and Paul Saffo. They discussed the challenge of developing methods of establishing end-to-end identity and trust for Web services applications. These will be required for Web services to move from the enterprise environment to the public. They also discussed digital media content rights, keeping Java technology accessible to everyone and implications of standards developed.

"Look at the stack of standards that sits as a foundation for the simple email," Saffo said. "It's not just SNMP and IP; it's ASCII and even the alphabet, which goes all the way back to someone sitting at a campfire pressing characters into clay with a stick. That's how long some 'standards' stick around. So make sure they are ones you want to keep."

Dietzen from BEA predicted that although corporate spending will be tight this year, Java technology development will keep up because there is no other choice to remain competitive. [...read more...]

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