- The keynote started with a nice "Code Hard" video.
- Comparing to last year the number of attendees and the space was doubled.
- Azul and SAP joined openJDK
- Java FX 2.0 GA is available. javafx.com/downloads. Preview is also available for MacOSX
- NetBeans 7.1 Beta is available
- Early JDK 1.9 ideas were shared: self-tuning, native integration, big data, reification, tail calls/continuations, mop, multi-tenancy (...)
- ...and #oracle likes : NoSQL
- Project #nashorn (the German translation of "Rhino") is announced. Oracle's JavaScript re-implementation on JVM.
- GlassFish was previewed to by able to deploy Paas application
The keynote exceeded my expectations. It was well done with humor, interesting technical content and really well attended.
