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I was hoping to post more last week on JavaOne, but it was a busy week. First, let me get my application development friends up speed. The general theme at this year's conference was Clouds and JavaFX. There were many talks on what Clouds were, how to deploy them, and the new tools available to utilize them. Sun is promoting their Cloud, but there were plenty of talks on Amazon's EC2. JavaFX was also a big player this year. There were talks on creating and utilizing JavaFX, but the most of the focus was on the upcoming tools, importing of graphics, and deployment of JavaFX. Tor Norbye is working on an excellent visual tool for JavaFX that should ship by the end of this year. Think of dragging and dropping widgets and just wiring them up. If any application development team members are interested, materials will be posted on Java's Software Developers Network (SDN) site.
Personally, it was probably my favorite J1. I meet a lot of new people from the Java User Group (JUG) and JUG-USA, the JavaFX team, and members of the NetBeans Dream Team. Sven Raimers, a Dream Team member, and his team won a Duke's choice award for his work on satellite tracking and data collection. I was fortunate enough to be in a small group of application development team members to meet and have a Q&A with James Gosling. I wrote the text for a Java video called "Pushing Java". It is up on Youtube, so check it out. I did present this year as part of the "Making Music With The java Programming Language". I also had a "Java Rockstar" interview here. I met many great people, and made some new friendships.