(3400) Look Mom! A consumer friendly Runtime

Technical long talk 50 min

Tuesday, 2008-06-24, 17:30 - 18:20, Arena 6

Rags Srinivas - Sun Microsystems (speaker)

Topics

• Consumer technologies
• Rich UI technologies
• Java Development Kit & Runtime Environment and its development

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Abstract

Java SE is on over 90% of desktops and Java ME is on over 90% of mobile phones.  
Java is also making a big dent in the consumer space such as set top boxes, 
Blu-Ray Disc players and so on. Although Java client technology is ubiquitous, 
consumer applications are not because development and deployment for consumers 
is still too hard.

The talk will explore the features that are being explored to create leaner and 
meaner JRE that eases deployment and installation. The features that are being 
looked into will ease start-up time, provide a quick launch and on-demand 
installation, among other things. The talk will explore the Java Kernel and 
other features that ease applet and application instantiation and deployment. We 
will also look at features that enable building richer client applications with 
Java SE 6 Update N.

After attending this session attendees should be able to walk away with a good 
understanding of where the Java SE platform is headed and how this should ease 
their development and deployment concerns for consumers.