JavaOne: Day 1 (Tuesday): Keynote

Knowledge Dump:

• Java is on 3 Billion Devices(mostly phones)
• Card scanners, blah blah blah, old news
• John Gage just made a joke (sorta) about not having a social security card with an electronic identifier, or as he said:
  "Hi, I'm an American, please detonate the closest device."
• CO2 sensor, used for mining, etc. Can be used for monitoring water usage, power usage, unsafe gas levels such as CO2 etc.]
• Gas meater can monitor 40 different times of gas
• Amazon Kindle (little electronic book) done in Java
• Very cool mash-up Demo of a multi-media app done in JavaFX on applet, desktop, and mobile
• one thing was cool is that they were able to drag the applet to the desktop and drag photos from the desktop to the application, it felt very integrated
• They were having ridiculous network issues, then again so am I
• Very cool 3D high-def stuff, very fast, very cool looking stuff
• Java 6 update 10 preview release
• JavaFX Desktop SDK EAP (July)
• JavaFX Desktop 1.0 (Fall)
• JavaFX Mobile and TV (Spring 2009)
• Glassfish V3 Kernal
  
• 98KB
• Modular Design
• Okay I'm a glassfish fanboy
• 48,000,000 JRE downloads a month
• Project Hydrazine
• Find
• Merge
• Deploy
• Share
• Monetize
• Project Insight
• JavaFX platform will have "Instrumentation", the ability to monitor data of users and passing data to users.
• I don't really understand what that means.
• Holy Crap, Neil Young is up on stage
• He's talking about how the Blue Ray sound is so much superior to anything prior
• He's wearing shades, what the...
• That was very cool suff, best Blue Ray Demo Ever