The keynote this morning was pretty interesting although, like last year, there was nothing that was very unexpected. I'll post some entries on specific topics when I get a bit more time, but the theme of the keynote was that Java is all around us, and that there's a thriving community with many business opportunities. I think the only real shock news was that Sun have decided to re-number the platform releases. Tiger will be known as J2SE 5.0 and the next version of J2EE will follow suit. I can see the logic, but "Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0"? Speaking of Tiger, they brought on a Tiger cub which was cool, although the poor thing was very tired!

Differences to previous years include the lack of John Gage as host and the usual pre-keynote band. One of the presenters made a comment that there were 15,000 people attending this years JavaOne conference which shows that the industry is definitely on the up.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 28 June 2004 21:42:58 BST #