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Ellison: “We've invested more in Java than anyone else”


By Alex Handy
June 2, 2009 — 
SAN FRANCISCO — In an attempt to reassure the Java faithful that the Java platform will continue to grow and evolve, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage at the JavaOne Conference at the Moscone Center this morning and declared that Oracle will continue to pour money into the advancement of the technology.

“Based on the foundation created here at Sun, we have invested heavily,” Ellison said to the crowd at Sun Microsystems’ annual—and final—Java conference  “I think we are going to continue to invest and accelerate our investment. Other than our database, which is based on SQL, everything that sits on top of our database and all of our products are Java-based.”

For Sun co-founder and board chairman Scott McNealy, it was a bittersweet morning. While he expressed excitement over Oracle's acquisition of the company he co-founded, McNealy admitted that he would miss being the chairman of the JavaOne conference.

McNealy pointed out that, combined with its previous acquisition of BEA Systems, Oracle has invested more money in Java than any other company in the world. Ellison agreed, and then went on to insinuate that the future of Oracle and Sun may include smartphones and other devices manufactured by Sun.

With Ellison literally waiting in the wings, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz  kicked off this morning's event by showing off a number of new tools and platforms. Schwartz announced the release of JavaFX 1.2, Java SE 1.6_14,and the new Java Store. However, the expected completion of Java EE 6 was not included in the keynote address.

The enterprise Java runtime and environment were made available in preview form in Sun's new GlassFish Portfolio release. That software bundle, available to developers today, included a preview version of the GlassFish application server v3 layered on top of the EE 6 specification.

Perhaps the most significant new addition to the Java platform is the new G1 garbage collector routine in Java SE 1.6_14. While still in a preliminary form, and not recommended for production, Sun claims that G1 will provide more reliable and predictable garbage collection within the Java SE 6 runtime.

JavaFX 1.2 included new cross-platform UI controls. Schwartz and Nandini Ramani, director of engineering for the JavaFX platform, demonstrated the new JavaFX Authoring Tool, a new development environment aimed at more consumer-oriented application development.

“We want to be able to deploy, seamlessly and easily, content across these consumer devices. There is no build and compile run cycle,” said Ramani, demonstrating that changes made to JavaFX code within the JavaFX Authoring Tool were immediately propagated into the application without the need to compile.

Finally, Schwartz and Java creator James Gosling demonstrated the new Java Store, where developers will soon be able to sell their Java applications directly to consumers.

“You can submit an application to the store from the tool set itself," said Schwartz. "Distribution will be able to present that through the Java update mechanism to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We want to make sure we get the cash register right. In the interim we're going to make distribution freely available."

The alpha version of the Java Store opened this morning and it includes numerous possible methods of payment. Gosling and Schwartz said they wanted developers to try these options and vote on their favorite before the store reaches general availability.

JavaOne continues this week at the Moscone Center.


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