Jan Sterba

So this year’s JavaOne is over. Too bad, and also very good. It was a run I can tell you. We have done so much amazing stuff for this year’s that it almost seems impossible.

Mobile was all over the Keynotes! Just wow, really. So much exposure. The JavaME SDK (official blog) guys are very humble believe me and now very famous, I think they are buying new servers to make all those downloads possible and fast. And for JavaFX Mobile? I am almost loosing words when trying to express everything we have done in the past year.

We sold the Early Access version of JavaFX Mobile Developer Phone. It’s an HTC Diamond and even though the runtime on that device is not so awesome performance-wise I think it is still awesome that many JavaFX developers now have a chance to see their apps running on a real phone.

In our session me and Juraj were showing slides written in JavaFX and running on a hacked version of the Emulator (thanks Lubo!). It was amazing. The Emulator is great. Maybe to good, when compared to the device, but we are working on that too, trust me.

We have been also showing our Hardware acceleration bit. We have OpenVG back-end for JavaFX Mobile runtime since MWC, but it was more of a prototype then, now it is a first class citizen of our graphics framework. The most amazing was the Hardware Acceelerated JavaFX Mobile on HTC Diamond. That’s kick-ass stuff. It was made possible by the AmanithVG library from Mazatech (thanks, guys, looking to work with you more). And there are other ways being explored in the OpenGL area too.

I was just about ready to drop dead before this J1, quite a lot of stuff on my shoulders. But now a week after I feel recharged and filled with positive energy. There is some very interesting shifting here in the JavaFX team and beleive we are moving to something awesome (as always). And after some of those J1 meetings with HW vendors especially there are some many new toys to play with and made amazing stuff on that, well, I am very much looking forward to our next run.

Now back to prioritizing those JIRA Issues. And yes, if you find a bug, report it!

If you (like me) have not attended the GoGaRuCo you still probably have heard about the big controversy and discussion started there. I first did not plan to but now I decided to formalize my take on this. For anyone interested.

So finally after releasing the Early Access version last year the team finally reached a final release of the JavaME SDK 3.0. JavaME SDK is the successor for both the Wireless Toolkit and the CDC Toolkit previously releassed by our team here at Sun and it brings much more to the table. Check out the web page, the info is all there. More features are comming to you via the auto-update feature, so cool.

Also if you’re going to JavaOne this year do not miss the JavaME 3.0 session that Tomas is doing with our Sonny-Ericsson. I am sure those guys will be showing some neat features and also realy on-device debugging.

This year’s JavaOne is going to be big again and I am proud to announce that my session was accepted (well I was part of the commitee, but still). Now it’s probably the best time to start browsing the content catalog so see what this year’s JavaOne is going to be about.

Make sure you do not miss Does Your Mobile Speak the JavaFX™ ? also known as  TS-4801 (had to hack the catalaog a little to get a direct link). Me and Juraj have some pretty amazing stuff planned for this session and I think it is going to be a hell of a show. We will be of course showing our latest experiments and progress with JavaFX on Mobile and beleive me there is stuff to look forward to.

My team from Prague will have even some very good BoF’s on JavaOne and I will bring those up as the conference is comming closer.

Now, this blog is new, but no so much. My personal blog in czech used to live on this very same address. Now that is moved to honzasterba.cz (see? dot cz!).

Now what can be expected here? Who knows. Release annoucements. Conference reports and maybe some background info around JavaFX and Sun in general. One thing is for sure, this blog is in English and I hope to make time for bragging about things here. Cheers!