This past Tuesday, Justin Kestelyn of the Oracle Technology Network interviewed Mark Reinhold about Java 7, in a live Tech Cast (see my Wednesday Editor's blog for a brief summary). In the interview, Mark cited four areas of improvement / enhancement that Java 7 is intended to address:
Modularity
Multilingual support
Language productivity
Performance
The new java.net poll asks your opinion on which of these areas of improvement is most critical for Java's future. To see Mark's view on why these specific areas are critical, why they must be addressed now, review the Tech Cast. It's about 30 minutes long. Mark's summary of the four objectives for Java 7 is right at the beginning of the Tech Cast.
Last week's poll: JavaOne 2010 attendance?
Last week's poll asked about your plans for attending JavaOne 2010, now that we know that there will be a JavaOne 2010. A total of 219 votes were cast. Here are the results:
Do you thihnk you'll be attending JavaOne 2010?
6% (13 votes) - Yes, I hope to lead a session
25% (55 votes) - Yes, if someone pays my way
3% (6 votes) - Yes
12% (27 votes) - I hope to attend one of the non-US JavaOnes
6% (14 votes) - I don't know
4% (9 votes) - No, I don't like the new format
43% (95 votes) - No
For me, the main take-away from these results (which are, of course, unscientific) is that people's thoughts about attending JavaOne 2010 are about what you'd expect at this early point in time, seven months before the actual conference. Not a whole lot of people selected "No, I don't like the new format," although I've seen some criticism of that.
JavaOne 2010 will be different from previous JavaOnes, certainly in terms of its facility, and in some ways in its focus. I'm not sure what the impact of co-location with Oracle Develop will be. But, certainly, a lot of last year's Oracle Develop sessions fit right in with JavaOne (Groovy, XML, JPA, JSF, JVM tuning, and Java EE engineering topics like service-oriented architecture, business process management, etc.)
In a sense, I think this year's JavaOne will actually be more focused on core Java topics. Wasn't the old JavaOne really a kind of "SunOne" or "SunWorld" conference, in ways? That's how it felt to me, anyway. Just about anything and everything "Sun" was present at JavaOne, in one form or another.
This refining of focus, as well as the upcoming regional JavaOnes across the globe, will likely contribute to smaller attendance at the US JavaOne in September. The seven tracks certainly cover the key areas:
Core Java Platform
Java SE and Desktop Java
Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications
JavaFX and Rich User Experience
Java ME and Mobile
Java for Devices, Card, and TV
The Java Frontier
I'm definitely looking forward to this year's JavaOne -- hoping that maybe I'll be able to attend and report on some of the sessions, while also continuing our JavaOne Community Corner Podcasts interview series.
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