I promise, the last blog post for JavaOne2007...

Compared to last year, mobility was more prominent in JavaOne 2007, but still way smaller than for example Web 2.0 and AJAX. Those topics were dominating the JavaOne already last year, so nothing has really changed in one year. Another topic high in the interest list was robots and robotics (I saw quite a few people buying robots with programming kits for 250 bucks or so; one buyer mentioned that if he had not bought it he would have kicked himself later - although he was suspecting that he would have no time to play with the robot in any case...)

On mobility side JavaFX was a hot topic of course, although I still do not have a good understanding what it really is, maybe this week I will have some time to read the materials and learn more. Besides that SVG API was displayed in many talks, and for a good reason. SVG allows you to create high-quality UI for your application and the tools for creating these graphics seem to be getting better as we speak.

What comes to the talk I gave (the second to last spot on Friday afternoon and in the whole conference), there was many more people attending, than I expected, which really does not mean much... About 25-30 people showed up, which was about as many more than I expected. The talk was about smart cards, SIM cards and SATSA APDU. The API itself is really simple, but the challenges are in getting access to the smart card (it is a secure environment after all, and it should stay that way).

The most misleading title of a talk goes to the talk titled "Tools for Developing Advanced Mobile Multimedia Applications", which I thought would contain information on tools to create AMMS-capable applications (JSR-234). It ended up being a demonstration of Sprint developer tools for mobile developers. Nice toolset, no question, but is this the reason I missed a simultaneous talk on Java Speech API v 2.0...