- there are more Java devices than people in the world
- GlassFish v3 - profiles, deploy on save (RAD)
- NetBeans 6.7
    - many improvements
    - debugging embedded Java in devices (e.g. a robot)
    - Kenai support
- Project Kenai
    - developer cloud
    - project source code repository
    - issue tracking
- Java Real Time
    - controlling physical systems (comlex sensor/control feedback loops)
    - highly deterministic timing (despite garbage collector)
    - "if there's a bug, somebody dies"
    - world's fastest robotic arm - moving objects with 10g acceleration
    - Embedded Java
        - intelligent meshes
        - SunSpot (Squawk) VM
        - sentilla.com
    - Neil Joung's "green" car - LincVolt
        - realtime java measurement and control - for best efficiency
        - the car is on the internet (via a 3G card)
- Java performance
    - myth: interpreted => slow
    - truth: highly optimized, dynamic metrics, often beats Fortran (matricies are the issue), GC faster than malloc/free, dynamic compilation beats static leveraging runtime data about environment (HW/SW)
- New cellphone generation (MSA, JSR248)
- JDK 7 (modularity - Mark Reinhold's blog, dynamic languages support JSR 292 - John Rose's blog)
- Java 6 updates
    - desktop integration fixes (new installer, deployment toolkit, new browser plugin, Nimbus - new Swing L&F)
    - G1 (garbage first) collector - tries really hard to shrink pause times
    - compressed object pointers: 32GB of address space with same performance as 4GB address space
- Java FX
    - allows to do same things as Flash, but with the computational power and depth of Java behind it
    - graphical tools coming soon
    - LG introduced a television with JavaFX support