Bluetooth Everywhere

Wow, what a conference. As I’ve said before, I haven’t been to JavaOne in over 9 years, so things were a bit overwhelming for me. First of all, I went to the wrong Moscone Center.  After my plane landed on Monday, I took a shuttle to my hotel. Afterwards, I briskly walked from my hotel over to Moscone West — and the building was empty. I asked the security guard where the JavaOne conference was, and he said that it was at the “other” Moscone Center…

…Thanks dude. Anyway, I found Moscone North and South where the conference was held, and I was able to register, and go to the Java Champions dinner on Monday. Anyway, he’s a list of the the pro’s and con’s that I learned at JavaOne:

Pro’s

• The Java SE VM is on a billion desktops
• The Java ME VM is on 2.6 billion mobile devices
• The Java7 SDK was released at JavaOne
• The JavaEE 6 SDK was released at JavaOne
• Verizon (the largest mobile carrier in the US) plans to open their platform to Java ME
• The Java Store was announced (http://store.java.com)
• Larry Ellison plans to enhance OpenOffice with JavaFX technology
• Larry Ellison wants to support the Android platform

Con’s

• The Java Store is not ready yet
• Nobody showed much interest in Java 7 (can you name any of the new features?)
• No MIDP 3 SDK was available for download
• No MIDP 3 phones were available for purchase

All-in-all, it was a great conference, and I hope to be able to attend next year.

Ok, it’s been a long time since I’ve been to JavaOne. The last time I went, it was JavaOne 2000, and I had a blast. It is absolutely my favorite conference to attend (even though I haven’t been back in 9 years).

I won’t be presenting this year, but if you can find me, I’ll either be wearing a BlogRadio t-shirt or a Java Champions shirt. And yes, I will have the prototype of BlogRadio with me  :-)