While it starts officially on June 1, 2009, and lasts until June 4, 2009, JavaOne also has pre-conference activities for the diehards and other fans; this includes a lot of the additional fun-filled conference-related meetings, for other Java- and Sun-related projects.
This year also marks the interesting acquisition of Sun, Java’s steward-sponsor since its release more than a decade ago, by Oracle, a leading Java proponent and sponsor. In addition to the drama playing out (once again, no less!) between the Eclipse and NetBeans camps, Oracle’s Java properties are now being collected/gathered alongside Sun’s Java offerings for an interesting series of complementary and head-to-head comparisons, in the minds of many Java developers and architects. How this relates to this year’s conference will be seen in the various presentations, many which were assembled prior to the M&A, and a few last-month additions to the conference since the M&A.
This also marks the rising tide of competition being marshaled against the iPhone OS platform developers’ extravaganza currently rolling forward. Although Java does not have any play whatsoever in the iPhone/iPod touch market, it may not necessarily be out of the picture, with regard to other smartphones. Just how skillful Oracle evangelists will be in attracting interest in bringing JavaFX Mobile support (and even regular JavaFX support) to mobile devices will be an item of interest, particularly if there are product announcements during JavaOne.
Good times, folks, good times.
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