Java has been widely viewed as something of a failure on the desktop. "That's less of an issue than it has been," Keller said. "It was true, but last year we reversed that when we were able to resolve our issues with Microsoft." Having settled their legal differences, the pair has been working at Java and .Net interoperability for over a year as will be indicated by the presence of Microsoft executives and a Microsoft booth at the Sun show. However, Microsoft still refuses to ship Java as part of its Windows operating system.
Sun officials won't comment on expected numbers for the show, but last year's event drew 14,000 to 15,000 attendees. The first JavaOne in 1996 garnered 6,000 visitors.
Another interesting area will be Sun's demoing of the GUIs for its NetBeans 4.1 IDE and future versions of the software, according to Javalobby's Ross. On the Sunday before the show, Sun will hold an all-day session focusing on NetBeans and other Sun developer tools. On hand will be various company luminaries, including Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and chief operating officer; the original designer of Java, James Gosling, chief technology officer for Sun's developer platforms group; and Tim Bray, the co-inventor of XML and Sun's director of Web technologies.
Keynote speakers at the show will include Sun Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott McNealy and chief technology officers from BEA Systems, Borland Software, and Nokia. However Ross believes the really interesting event will be Gosling's keynote, entitled "Stretch Your Mind." "It's where some of the desktop magic is going to occur," Ross said.
Following that keynote, according to the JavaOne Web site (http://java.sun.com/javaone), Gosling will host a panel discussion to debate whether Java should adopt a new community and development model. Panelists will include Brian Behlendorf, chief technology officer of CollabNet, Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly Media and Larry Lessig, professor at Stanford University, known for his work on copyright issues.
"It's important to see Java from the perspective of being an industry, not merely as products from company X, Y and Z," said Ross. "That's part of the maturing of Java."
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