Certainly the excitement in Java this year had to be about JVM performance and 
JavaFX. JavaFX finally feels real.

Kirk

On Oct 23, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Sean Comerford wrote:

> I agree with both sides.
> 
> Tech geeks always want to be on the cutting edge / "cool" tech. 10 years ago, 
> that WAS java... now it's "just" a wildly successful but mature and more 
> slowly evolving technology.
> 
> That being said, JavaOne was WAY better this year with more excitement and I 
> left feeling Java has a lot more momentum. Last year all the interest was in 
> "what's Oracle gonna kill or start charging a fortune for" but this year 
> there was none of that.
> 
> Plus it's not hard to make the case Java was stagnating during Sun's death 
> spiral. Like the company or not, Oracle has deep pockets and has Java moving 
> forward on all cylinders again which Sun couldn't do as it hemorrhaged money 
> and people.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Sven Reimers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Same for me...
> 
> Sven
> 
> Am 23.10.2011 19:37 schrieb "Kirk" <[email protected]>:
> 
> maybe it's just me but I felt more excitement as this years event than in the 
> previous few.
> 
> Regards,
> Kirk
> 
> On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Chris Koerner wrote:
> 
>> I thought it was just me when I didn't even want to bother listening to the 
>> live stream of the event. In many ways Oracle Java is about as interesting 
>> as Microsoft .Net. But it seems along with the event that the enthusiasm 
>> over Java has dropped.  I remember the days when Java was viewed with 
>> incredible excitement and everyone couldn't wait to get a chance to work on 
>> a project using Java. 
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