May 29, 2007
Sun Good News
Special Java^TM edition

What's New with Java

• JavaFX™— a new family of Sun products based on Java technology and targeted at the high impact, content market — enables developers and content creators to quickly develop rich applications that can be deployed easily across the widest variety of client devices from mobile devices to desktops, set-top boxes, and Blu-ray Discs.
  • JavaFX Script is a highly productive scripting language enabling content developers to create rich media and content that can easily be deployed across any Java™ technology-enabled device.
  • JavaFX Mobile leverages the technology Sun acquired from SavaJe Technologies to deliver a complete, fully integrated software system for mobile devices available via OEMs.
• The JavaFX family expands Java technology into even more markets, addressing the growing needs of consumers on the network who want a true three-screen experience. JavaFX technology also helps Sun capitalize on the volume-drives-value strategy with a solution enabling applications and services on virtually any client device. »Read more
• Sun has open sourced Java Platform, Standard Edition (SE); Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME); and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) under the GNU GPL v2 license. Sun has also open sourced other core technologies, including the Solaris™ OS, NetBeans™, Project Looking Glass, Project JXTA, Jini™, and OpenOffice. Sun is on track to open source all of its software. »Read more
• A fully buildable Java Development Kit (JDK) for Java SE is available from the OpenJDK Community as free software under GPLv2. »Read more
• Sun is recognized the biggest contributor of code to the free and open source community! »Read more

Evidence of Growth and Momentum

• The Java community continues to grow, with industry associations, software vendors, universities, and individual developers and hobbyists joining every day.

  • There are now more than 6 million Java developers and 6.5 million lines of Java SE code open sourced under GPL v2.
  • Java runs on 5.5 billion devices, 800 million desktops, 1.8 billion mobile phones, 3 billion Java Card™ devices, and 11 million set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
  • The Java Community Process (JCP) has 1224 members.
  • There have been more than 435 million Java Runtime Environment (JRE) downloads from java.com since the site launched in June 2003.
  • Free and open source Java development is flourishing on java.net with 3946 projects and 343,390 total members. »Read more
• More than 15,000 developers from around the world attended the recent JavaOne^SM conference. »Read more
• Since its launch in early 2004, more than 13,000 applications from more than 3100 registered developers have been tested through the Java Verified Program, and the number of developers and companies leveraging the program continues to grow. This strategic program is the heart of Java technology's compatibility and supports approximately 400 Java technology-powered handsets — more devices than any other mobile application testing program. »Read more

Real Business Results from Customers

• "We continue to see remarkable opportunity in delivering compelling content to the hundreds of millions of consumers on Vodafone's global network," says Alan Harper, Vodafone's group strategy and new business director. "The Java platform's ubiquity and security have clearly amplified Vodafone's opportunity through our Vodafone live! services, and shoulder to shoulder with Sun Microsystems, we've relied upon open platforms, free markets, and competition to drive innovation and value. We are enthusiastic about Sun's new JavaFX product family and the opportunity it presents to Vodafone and the global community to drive deployment of a unified Java solution on mobile devices." »Read more

Sun's Competitive Advantage

• "The combination of DTrace and Java SE 6 enables an unprecedented view across all layers of Java software,” writes DevX.com's Jarod Jenson. “. . . With systemic observability, performance problems have nowhere to hide. Pretty amazing that all the requisite components are completely free of charge. Oh happy day!" »Read more
• “Java is already present on nearly every mobile phone, regardless of OS,” says LinuxDevices.com's Henry Kingman. “However, with JavaFX Mobile, Sun clearly hopes to carve out a bigger space for itself within each mobile phone design. Its success could depend on how quickly Linux mobile phone companies and community developers can rally to match Java's mature application management features.” »Read more

Evidence of Technological Innovation and Leadership

• “From smart cards to mobile phones to enterprise applications and supercomputers, Java technology has become one of the world's most significant and pervasive platforms," writes Leslie T. O'Neill. ".... The JavaFX family will make it easier than ever to build and quickly deploy rich Internet applications and interactive content on clients ranging from the browser to devices.” »Read more
• "Bringing the Internet to people through mobile handsets can greatly expand access, and it is imperative that the technology industry continues to innovate to make that a reality worldwide,” says Dr. Djibril Diallo, director of the United Nations New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace, and chair of the UN Youth Summit series. “The challenge for the entire industry and Sun is in making new technology accessible in developing countries, leveraging its power to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015." »Read more
• "A prime asset of Java is that it works in all computing environments,” writes Brian Womack of Investor's Business Daily. “That opens up more possibilities. Someone could use their cell phone to program their digital video recorder from a coffee shop. Or they could use the cell phone to beam a photo to a TV set." »Read more
• NetBeans technology, Sun Developer Network, and Java tools won awards for innovation and technological excellence in five categories of Dr. Dobb's Journal's Jolt Awards. »Read more
• InformationWeek ranked Java one of the top 5 greatest software ever written. »Read more

What Others are Saying

• "When you think about what Sun has wanted to do, [it] wanted to make Java ubiquitous,” Sageza Group's Clay Ryder tells internetnews.com's Andy Patrizio. “One of the easiest ways to make that happen is to have everyone understand the code and drive it. Now that all of it is open source, that will help to get more interest in it." »Read more

• "Anything that makes it easier for developers to quickly build compelling user interfaces using the Java stack is a step in the right direction," Forrester Research's Jeffrey Hammond tells InfoWorld's Paul Krill regarding JavaFX. "A model that makes it easier to target multiple devices, including mobile ones, is also useful and recognizes the multi-channel direction the Web is taking." »Read more
• “The JavaFX platform will rejuvenate the Java development community and place it squarely in the path of Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. But the vision for JavaFX is much more ambitious,” writes ZDNet's Ed Burnette. »Read more
• ". . . Sun is now fulfilling that promise [to continue open sourcing Java] and making it a reality,” reports Ars Technica's Ryan Paul. “This is a major victory for the open-source community and a very promising move from Sun .. . . Sun is opening the door to broader community participation and making it possible for developers to use, extend, and redistribute Java technologies in a wide variety of new and innovative ways. It could potentially help expand the reach of Java and make it a more important part of the growing open-source software ecosystem.” »Read more
• “. . .[D]espite its broad reach on consumer devices, Java has made an equally large mark on server software makers, where Java-based back-end software has generated billions of dollars for IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems, Sun and others," writes CNET's Martin LaMonica. "With JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile, Sun and other Java licensees will have a much more attractive offering for rich Internet applications." »Read more
• “More importantly, Sun is a serious player in cell phone software, with a deep background of experience,” writes InformationWeek's Alexander Wolfe. “Its Java Mobile software has long been used on the Nokia Series 60 platform.” »Read more

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