Back to the DevoXX discussion, it has clearly lost some momentum now, that JavaOne was moved to the Sep/Oct timeslot, and DevoXX itself was even shifted almost a month itself. While even the announcements and great news of last year (Java getting Closures[?]) were not as close to becoming reality as it then may have sounded, everything discussed or presented this year on Java was only the aftermath of JavaOne. The JSRs being out just this week probably being the only "gossip" for the bloggers and "Parvez Hiltons" of the Java Community who have gathered there much more than on JavaOne or other conferences by the vendors itself.
Guess Matt has moved himself a step closer to such "Parvenism" with that presentation ?[?]