The last week of winter in the northern hemisphere features three significant Java-related conferences: the Scandinavian Developer Conference (SDC) takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Goteborg, Sweden; the Java Posse Roundup runs all week, in Crested Butte, Colorado; and TheServerSide Java Symposium (TSSJS), in Las Vegas, Nevada, starts today and runs through Friday.
James Gosling is be giving the conference opening keynote address at TheServerSide Java Symposium at 8:15 AM Pacific (U.S.) Daylight Time -- about half an hour from now, as I write this. The title of James's address is Java Today and Tomorrow:
This is the first opportunity you’ll have to hear Mr. Gosling’s unique perspective, including everything from JavaFX, Glassfish, Java EE 6, devices on the edge, realtime systems and dynamic languages on the JVM – basically everything that contributes to the potent mix that characterizes Java today. The present and future of Java couldn’t be addressed like this by anyone else, which is why this revealing keynote address is guaranteed to be a standing-room-only event where you discover exactly where we are now, what to expect in the near future, and what it all means to you.
It's quite true that James has felt the need to be fairly quiet about Java in the past year. On his blog, he expressed some frustration over the impediment of the need to not talk freely as the Oracle acquisition of Sun dragged on. Now he's free again!
I'm going to post this blog, then "listen" to James's keynote via the TSSJS Twitter search. Then I'll come back and fill in some of the key points James made, as relayed by the TSSJS tweeters.
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