It was great being part of AMD's big presence at JavaOne this year. We had good turnout at the booth, keynote, and technical session, talking with folks who wanted to learn about our community involvement, most notably:
· Our CodeSleuth product
· Our plans for enhancing Java through our processor and platform technologies
· The partners that we are working with to have Java take advantage of those technologies
If you couldn't attend the conference, be sure to check out the keynote from Dr. Leendert van Doorn, AMD Senior Fellow, on the Role of the Microprocessor in the Evolution of Java Technology. Dr. James Gosling was up on stage with Leendert to discuss
the future of Java. The webcast can be viewed in chapters at the following three links:
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/media_shell.jsp?id=FRdamp267618
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/media_shell.jsp?id=FRdamp267620
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/media_shell.jsp?id=FRdamp267622
A good article that provides an overview of the keynote and our plans can be found here:
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2008/articles/gen_amd.jsp
Many thanks to Jim Falgout and the team from Pervasive Software for their booth presence and keynote participation. We look forward to working with them on their products that tap the power of multi-core processors.
Good turnout and probing questions at Azeem and Shrinivas' virtualization tech session. Many people are just getting their feet wet with virtualization. We expect it to be a major topic at the conference next year, which leads me to the question: What details would be of interest to you?
Also with an increased showing, was interest in the different Real Time Java technologies. In the booth, we had a presentation from IBM for its offering in that space, and had many folks come by with questions, and feedback for real time JVMs in general. They were mainly from the financial and manufacturing sectors. I expect that we will also see much more discussed at next year's conference concerning this space, and you will certainly see us in the thick of that discussion.
The team attended some good tech sessions (and saw much to like) in a number of areas including, but not limited to:
· Garbage collection: There was some good discussion around the G1 collector. We are certainly interested in what this does for JVM performance.
· Concurrency: Upcoming ParallelArray features look like a great way to have Java developers create code that can scale well to multi-core architectures. There were other talks about the challenges we face as developers in the multi-core era.
· Other JDK7 features: A good talk about Closures, which will help concurrency and stream handling.
· JavaFX: Lots of buzz around JavaFX this year, with some great demos in the initial general session.
We are looking forward to participating at the conference next year in June. Hope you have plans to be there as well.
Ben
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