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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
to discuss Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
technologies, primarily among Java developers. JavaOne is held in San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
typically running from Monday to Thursday. Technical sessions on a variety of topics are held during the day. In the evening, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are held. BOF sessions allow people to focus in on a particular aspect of Java technology.
Access to the technical sessions, keynote presentations, exhibits and BOF sessions requires a conference pass which usually costs between $1795 to $1995 USD.
In 1999, the conference played host to an event called the Hackathon
Hackathon
A hackathon, a hacker neologism, is an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming. The spirit of a hackathon is to collaboratively build programs and applications. Hackathons are typically between several days and a week in length...
, a challenge set by John Gage
John Gage
John Burdette Gage was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase "the network is the computer." He served as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun, until leaving on June 9, 2008 to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a...
. Attendees were to write a program in Java for the new Palm V
Palm V
The Palm V was a personal digital assistant made by the Palm Computing division of 3Com. While functionally similar to the predecessor Palm III series of PDAs, it distinguished itself by its sleek design, anodized aluminum finish, and built-in rechargeable battery . The Palm V's design was created...
using the infrared port to communicate with other Palm users and register the device on the Internet.
During the 2008 conference, 67 Moscone Center
Moscone Center
Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street...
staff members and three attendees were sickened by an outbreak of norovirus.
JavaOne 2010, the first conference to be run after the acquisition of Sun by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
, was held September 19-23, concurrently with Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld is an annual Oracle event for business decision-makers, IT management, and line-of-business end users. It is held in San Francisco, California; São Paulo, Brazil; and Shanghai, China. The world's largest conference for Oracle customers and technologists, Oracle OpenWorld San...
. This was the first year that the conference was not held at Moscone Center, instead hosted at three hotels on nearby Mason Street, one block of which was closed and covered with a tent, which formed part of the conference venue. JavaOne 2011 was held October 2-6, in the same venue configuration as in 2010.
CommunityOne
In 2007, an associated one-day event, CommunityOne, was initiated, for the broader free and open-source developer community. In 2008, the second annual CommunityOne event was held on May 5.In 2009, CommunityOne expanded to New York City (CommunityOne East, March 18-19) and to Oslo, Norway (CommunityOne North, April 15). The third annual CommunityOne in San Francisco took place from June 1-3, 2009, at Moscone Center.
Tracks included:
- Cloud Platforms – Development and deployment in the cloud.
- Social and Collaborative Platforms – Social networks and Web 2.0 trends.
- RIAs and Scripting – Rich Internet Applications, scripting and tools.
- Web Platforms – Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers.
- Server-side Platforms – SOA, tools, application servers, and databases.
- Mobile Development – Mobile platforms, devices, tools and application development.
- Operating Systems and Infrastructure – Performance, virtualization, and native development.
- Free and Open – Open-source projects, business models, and trends.
CommunityOne was discontinued after the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.
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- 1998: Java ring
- 1999: Palm VPalm VThe Palm V was a personal digital assistant made by the Palm Computing division of 3Com. While functionally similar to the predecessor Palm III series of PDAs, it distinguished itself by its sleek design, anodized aluminum finish, and built-in rechargeable battery . The Palm V's design was created...
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002: Sharp ZaurusSharp ZaurusThe Sharp Zaurus is the name of a series of Personal Digital Assistant made by Sharp Corporation. The Zaurus was the most popular PDA during the 1990s in Japan and was based on a proprietary operating system. The first Sharp PDA to use the Linux operating system was the SL-5000D, running the...
- 2003
- 2004: Homepod, a wireless MP3 device from Gloolabs
- 2005
- 2006: SavaJeSavaJeSavaJe was the developer of the SavaJe OS, a Java OS for advanced mobile phones.The SavaJe OS was a monolithic OS-and-Java platform, an implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java Standard Edition, as opposed to...
Jasper S20 phone - 2007: RS MediaRS MediaThe RS Media is another product in WowWee's line of biomorphic robots, based on a walking system designed by Mark Tilden. The RS Media uses basically the same body as the Robosapien V2, but a different brain based on a Linux kernel. As the name implies, the RS Media's focus is on multimedia...
programmable robot - 2008: Sentilla Perk Kit, Pulse Smartpen, Sony Ericsson K850i
- 2009: HTC Diamond with JavaFXJavaFXJavaFX is a software platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications that can run across a wide variety of connected devices....
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