Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz's keynote address at the 2004 JavaOneSM Conference defined JavaTM technology as the soon-to-be "de facto standard for the worldwide network." Schwartz's opening speech, delivered to the world's largest Java technology developer and partner conference, touched on Sun's latest product releases and strategic developments.

"Java technology is becoming the de facto standard for the worldwide network," Schwartz said, "increasing the speed and simplicity with which services are delivered to mobile, consumer and enterprise markets."

Schwartz noted that Java technology innovations have grown into a $120 billion economy and new Java technology developments are still expanding into other markets. He cited automotive navigation and entertainment systems from Siemens VDO Automotive in the BMW series, a mobile Java technology health monitoring device from MedicTouch, as well as Java technology's entry into consumers' homes via television set-top boxes.

"The Java economy is on fire! Java powers 1.7 billion devices worldwide and it's rapidly accelerating into the cable TV, gaming, ringtone and automotive industries," he said. "Five years ago, few predicted the impact Java would have on the mobile device industry; today there are 350 million mobile Java phones."

Other announcements highlighted during the conference are as follows:

• Contribution of Project Looking Glass to the open source community [13347].
• Availability of JavaTM 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SETM) 5.0, known as Project Tiger or J2SE 1.5, which is due for release in fall 2004 [13348].
• Commercial availability of Sun JavaTM Studio Creator [13349].
• New SunSM Developer Network whose goal is to unify tools, developer expertise and communities that makes Java development easier, simpler, faster and more innovative [13350].
• Preview release of NetBeansTM 4.0 platform that includes a new Java technology performance profiler based on patent-pending technology originally developed at Sun Labs and refactoring capabilities originating from Dr. James Gosling's Jackpot project. [...read more...]
  
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