Blogging Roller

Lots of cool news during the general session this morning. I took lots of notes, but I've got no time to type them all in. So, here are the high-lights from my point of view (and in the order they were mentioned):

• Java in every DVD player. The new Blue Ray standard for DVDs (up to 50GB storage per disk) includes Java technology. I don't have the details, but word is that all Blue Ray DVD players will include a Java VM for creating interactive content, i.e. the menus, special effects, and games that accompany movies on DVD. Gosling mentioned that future DVD players will have network ports too. Sounds like lots of interesting opportunities for Java developers there.
• IBM supporting Solaris 10. The entire IBM middleware suite will be available for Solaris 10 (and I'm assuming OpenSolaris as well) in both AMD and Intel flavors. This is great for Eclipse-heads that dig Solaris (not that I would know any of them ;-)
• Sun Java App Server now open source and under CDDL, a true OSI certified open source license (with patent protection/indemnification). Jim Driscol has some more details of this new project, known as Glassfish.
• Screamin' Sun box with ALL dev tools is $29.95/month. I'm tempted to get one myself. You get Sun Studio C/C++ dev environment, Java Studio, and Java Creator with tech support for less than thirty bucks a month -- all preloaded on one of the new Sun Ultra 20 AMD Opteron based workstations.
• Java Creator 2.0 EA and AJAX components available: Tor took the stage with Johnny L to demo Creator 2.0 and a cool new AJAX component they've cooked up (I'm still trying to find it on Java.Net).

Pardon (and correct) me if I don't have all the details right. I don't have time to write up Graham Hamilton's presentation on Java SE, EE and ME. Maybe later. Gotta run...