Recovering from JavaOne 2010

I had originally planned to write a blog post per day during JavaOne 2010. That being my first JavaOne I was of course completely unprepared for the hectic routine of sessions, meetings, parties and more sessions. I wrote blog posts in the first two days and disappeared ever since. I am alive, well, and back to Brazil. I had a terrific time in San Francisco where I got to meet a lot of interesting people, some for the first time and some that I had previously known online. What explains my silence is the fact I got sucked into a new consulting assignment immediately after touching ground, and only now I have time to rest a bit and reflect on what I have seen. JavaOne 2010 was all about The Cloud for me, and in many ways it changed my views as to what cloud computing really is about. I will have to write a post specifically about that in the future, but I am now convinced that the Cloud is an umbrella concept for a number of practices and technologies related to the simplification of system deployments ( in contrast to the more traditional view related to cost benefits from economies of scale). There were a number of very interesting announcements and demos related to Cloud Computing and I believe over the next year more and more Java-enabled cloud platforms will enter production stage ( and at some point after that we will see some common apis emmerging this space). There was already a lot of coverage about the future of the Java p...

Date: October, 07 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/10/07/recovering-javaone

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