1. Jim Constantine Senior Enterprise Architect Sun Microsystems jim.constantine@sun.com

2. Java Quo Vadis ? Java Forum Stuttgart 1 July 1999

3. JavaOne 1999 The Numbers: 21,000 attendees 669 speakers 1.7 million Java developers Java developers will surpass C++ developers by 2000 40,000 Java licensees through the “Sun Community Source License”

4. JavaOne Impressions Last year “what we will do” This year “what we did” Lots of mature products with mature vendors More reality and less hype

5. JavaOne 1999 Cool Stuff 10,000 PalmVs sold for $199 each to attendees. Pre-loaded with the K virtual machine (J2ME). Real-time Java demo by IBM Jini controlled Lego Mindstorm robots

6. JavaOne 1999 Key Announcements New “Java Editions” J2EE, J2SE, J2ME. Roadmap for the next few releases of Java 2. Java Community Process. Misc.

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8. The New View

9. Application Profiles A way to add support for domain specific requirements. Specifies exactly what support is provided to applications in terms of features, APIs, classes and (optionally) frameworks. Test Suite

10. Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Current JDK stuff : – CORBA, IIOP, Messaging, Transactions, RMI, JDBC, JNI, … + EJB + Servlets + Java Server Pages New Packaging and Deployment Ideas

11. Java 2 Enterprise Edition Consists of: J2EE Specification J2EE Application Programming Model (best practices) J2EE Reference Implementation J2EE Compatibility Test Suite

12. J2EE Concepts Components: EJB Containers: web, application – Web for JSP, Servlets – Application for EJBs – XML deployment descriptor idea extended to support JSP, Servlets, web content Connectors: for talking to legacy systems such as CICS and SAP

13. J2EE Deployathon Demo Showed the same used car eCommerce application EJB code running without *ANY* changes in: – Oracle App. Server – IBM WebSphere – Netscape NAS – BEA WebLogic – Gemstone J – and others

14. Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) What we all think of as the JDK Targeted at desktop PCs and workstations Next major release will include HotSpot Netscape 5.0 will have J2SE built in via OJI and the Plug-in

15. Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Targets high volume consumer devices Highly optimized runtime with newly written JVM called K-Java – 40kb in size, with libs 128kb – suited for 16/32b RISC/CISC 16+ Mhz – written with Motorola, 3Com, Bull, Fujitsu Palm V is reference platform Psion has announced support

16. Java 2 Roadmap “Cricket” Release (1.2.2) – due out July 1999 – bug fixes – Plug-in: - RSA signing - HTTPS support - silent install - 50% smaller download (5M) - fixed cookie support

17. Java 2 Roadmap “Kestrel” Release (1.2.3) – due out Q1/2000 – http 1.1 – RMI over IIOP – 25% faster startup – 20% smaller footprint – GUI performance focus – HotSpot for client – Plug-in: - “sticky applets” and standard extensions

18. Java 2 Roadmap Post “Kestrel” – Java 3 ??? Q1/2001 – new I/O API – Plug-in - support for multiple JVMs (not committed)

19. Java Community Process The way by which anyone can contribute to Java 20 proposals underway Audited by the independent auditing firm of Price-Waterhouse

20. Java Community Process Java Specification Requests (JSR): Orthogonal Persistence J2EE Connector Architecture Unified Printing API Parameterized Types See: http ://java.sun.com/aboutjava/communityproce ss

21. HotSpot Source will be available via SCSL Built in to J2EE Future releases promise an additional 40% performance improvement.

22. Bill Joy Keynote Quoted Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Your phone should have common sense reasoning about context: e.g. It should not ring when in a meeting.

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