Java Standard Edition Release 6u10 Update
Conference Call -- Oct 21st, 2008 0830am PACIFIC

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AGENDA

• JavaKernel for fast download and installation
• JavaQuickStarter for quick applet startup
• New Java Plugin for unified applet/application deployment, and applets that break free of the browser
• Graphics acceleration and new look and feel of Nimbus
  
• 30 mins of slides & 30 min of Q & A w/ Danny and Ethan

>>>>>SLIDES HERE:
https://java-champions.dev.java.net/pdfs/javase6u10.pdf

slide 2 Java SE, JavaFX Roadmap
3 - Java 6u10 FCS
4 - Major Changes in 6u10
5 - Old Plug-In (pre-6u10)
6 - New Plug-In
7 - JNLP Applets
8 - Draggable Applets
9 - Deployment Toolkit
10 - Deployment Toolkit Example
11 - Nimbus Look and Feel
12 - Before: Ocean
13 - After: Nimbus
14 - Nimbus: Future-Proof
15 - Java Startup Performance
16 - Solution: Java Quick Starter
17 - JRE Size Chart
18 - JRE Size
19 - Solution: Java Kernel
20 - Performance and Usability
21 - Q & A

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

• Ethan Nicolas submitted a proposal for Java 7, under the name "Java Kernel" (the ideas being that you download a small "kernel" of Java functionality, which is in turn capable of downloading the rest of it.)
• Danny Coward has worked at Sun Microsystems since 1997. He is the Chief Architect of Sun's Client Software, which means Java SE, Java ME and JavaFX. He is also Sun's Java SE/EE representative on the Executive Committee for the Java Community Process.

"Special Thanks to the Java Champions, JUG Leaders, and NetBeans DreamTeam members who attended this call" -- Aaron

Audio MP3 of this call here

Comments from this call:

Q: Will Java FX and this latest Java SE 6u10 make developers more productive? But, on which platforms? Will there be support for Linux at some point?

10/21 Ian Darwin: "...I agree with Heinz [about being more productive as a developer on Linux/Mac].... In fact, I'm refusing to take a free copy of Windows that Microsoft is trying to *give* me, for the same reasons. I've lost a lot more time on a few Windows systems than on a lot of *NIX (Solaris, OpenBSD, Linux) systems...."

10/21 Kirk Pepperdine: "...I have to say that this is a case of "to each, his own". Linux may not be quite up to the level of hardware support that you get from MS. But then hardware has been crippled because if it's not in the MS spec... Hardware/software vendors that don't care about the MS hardware specification are slowly building a gap between them and MS and that gap is only going to get bigger as hardware is now changing faster than MS can cope. If we want to support real innovation then we need to shed our dependency on MS.."

10/21 Alan Williamson: "...As for being more productive [as a developer].... I have purchased a laptop for my youngest, and for giggles i had linux on it, and you know what, thats a whole Saturday i will never get back!!! Messing around with drivers, plugins etc, it was a nightmare and illustrated just how far Linux STILL HAS TO GO before it is a complete desktop replacement for Windows....Love it or hate it, Windows is still the dominant desktop; and that is where we have to target [consumers]."

10/21 Felipe Gaucho (Caere JUG Brazil): "...Just 1 observation: I refuse to buy Mac OS X for development for the same reason I refuse to buy Microsoft..... :) for me, both companies play the same business... the only difference it that one is less than 5% of the market while the other one is more then 90% :)..."

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