Sun Technology Days - Sydney, Australia

I have attended the Sun Technology Days in Sydney, Australia this week.

First time I have seen the father of Java, James Gosling speaking live. He spoke about the percolation of Java language in to various facets of life, industries and applications including robotics and scientific equipments. Basically he tried to flare up some sort of creativity in the attendees which is not a bad idea. He admitted that Java and Java specification was the labor of love many open source developers and not just himself. Good sense of humility.

This years event at Darling Harbour was bigger than last event in Sydney conducted at Chatswood Townhall. There were several technology streams on which presentations were given. I have attended both Java Enterprise and Desktop streams. Oracle's presentation as a sponser of the event was also very informative, particularly about the Oracle Cache Clusters and BPEL.

What came out of the sessions was that there are lot of open opportunities for java developers out there using Sun's tools and technologies. The presenters seem to have full depth understanding in their areas. The Sun Engineers have really shed lot of Sun Light on the emerging web technologies and definitely it is not a sales pitch as some say it.

From SOA, Web Services Security, Java FX, DTrace, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, Dodo, Java Puzzlers, all topics were very interesting. MySql took a major focus in the event due to recent merger of this with Sun.

I was told that the same event held at Hyderabad in India was also a huge success as seen from the SMS voting by the attendees where the SMS Gateway was blown up.

It was great to listen to such things about India as I have seen there were harldy any SMS voting messages that appeared in the Sydney's event.