I am just leaving the general session that kicks of this year’s JavaONE conference.
As usual, this gigantic Java rock show was the vector for a series of announcements from Sun
- The open-sourcing of the Java SE platform is complete. Sun now delivers a set of sources that you can build and compile : OpenJDK.
Sun also announce the setup of a temporary Governance Board that will work on defining the Governance Process for this community. - Sun is entering into the Rich Internet Applications market with a scripting language allowing to create rich internet content on top of standard Java SE or Java ME platform. This is called JavaFX and will include soon-to-be-released appropriate tooling to make our life easier and our work more productive.
I will post my pictures on Flickr later today.
Some figures grabbed during the show :
- NASDAQ is running 150.000+ transactions per second on their Java based trading systems
- Java developer community is now over 6 million