Are you interested in learning the ins and outs of Sentilla's novel Java platform? Do you want to kick the tires and learn how to build efficient pervasive Java applications? Do you have questions about how garbage collection works? Do you want to know about the Driver model? How about performing asynchronous operations from a synchronous threaded context in Java? And how do you manage all those threads on a resource constrained device with only 10kB of memory?
Day Three at JavaOne brought more application ideas, and a video interview with Joe.
Here were the three coolest apps of the day:
JavaOne doesn't start until tomorrow, but today we saw a ton of people here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Sun held their annual CommunityOne open developers conference, and Sentilla was there. What attendees didn't expect was that Sentilla's pervasive computers are watching their every move. Keep an eye out for Sentilla as you walk through the Moscone Center.
I have been running around the world over the last few weeks since JavaOne and our GA announcement, with two trips to Europe and some other trips around the US. I gave a number of invited talks, have spent time talking with visionaries and leaders like John Gage, and have constantly been revising the presentation to address all of the great questions that I've received.
The first day of JavaOne is over, and what a day it was!
The tone was set fairly immediately, when the opening Session of the entire conference highlighted Sentilla right out the gate. That's right: among the more than 200 exhibitors in the conference -- including major heavyweights like Oracle, Intel, Motorola -- Sentilla was the first company mentioned by Sun. That was really exciting. See for yourself from Sun's webcast replay (we're mentioned starting at 3:52.)
What do 15,000 Java developers have in common? Besides a love of object-oriented programming languages and an oddly-shaped mascot named Duke, Java developers act en masse. How do we know? Sentilla was commissioned by Sun Microsystems to instrument the Moscone Center in San Francisco with over 200 pervasive computers during the 2008 JavaOne conference.
As mentioned by John Gage and James Gosling in the keynote on Tuesday, Sentilla has been monitoring the behavior of people in the Moscone Center. We know when they enter and leave each room and we know the environmental conditions in each room. Together, we have great data that is giving us a good sense of the resources we're using.