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JavaOne 2009 – Day 1

The show has started!

As usual Jonathan Swartz presented a collection of partners and companies that has excelled in using or contributing to the Java technology, a couple of Duke awards was announced. The Java Store store.java.com was released with the slogan Turning Labors of Love Into Day Jobs.

James Gosling rocketed out the inevitable T-shirts, and people where as crazy as ever. I am sure some of the nerds even fainted…. 🙂

At the end of the show, Scott McNeally brougt Larry Ellison on stage. See previous post.

Larry on stage

Just when we were wondering if the whole keynote would go by without anybody mentioning Oracle at all, Scott McNealy invited Larry Ellison on stage!

Larry said that Oracle has no plans of changing anything radically. On the contrary, he emphasized that the combined resources of Sun and Oracle will let Java and the Java Community continue to grow as it is doing today.

The show is about to start

My last chance to get a post out in May…
This week, thousands of Java nerds gather in the Moscone Center, San Francisco for the JavaOne Conference. First out is Community One West which takes place on Monday. Then the big opening of JavaOne happens on Tuesday morning. I have the best intentions to write a little bit from it here every day as I have done the previous years.

Kenai

Kenai is Sun’s connected developer destination. It is a integrated suite of developer services where you can host your open source projects. Currently the following features are supported:

  • Source Code Management (Subversion, Mercurial, and Git)
  • Issue Tracking (Jira and Bugzilla)
  • Wiki
  • Forums
  • Mailing Lists
  • Download facility for documents
  • Evolving integration with NetBeans

When you create an account at Kenai, you can host up to five projects for free. I imported two of my hobby projects to try it out, and I liked it. See wikipedia for a comparison of open source software hosting facilities.