Day three of JavaPolis, the first conference day. A long keynote and one hour sessions afterwards.
The keynote started with a welcome of Stephan Janssen, the organizer of JavaPolis. Bruce Eckel told a bit about Open Space, and the rest of the keynote it was mostly James Gosling. James presented some statistics and figures of Java users and downloads, and encouraged everyone to visit dev.java.net more often. When talking about mobile devices James said something quite funny:
You can even use COBOL on a mobile device, but you you're probably pretty sick when you do that. But hey, we're in Belgium, right?
Another point of interest is NetBeans 6.0. I have been playing around with it a couple of days now, but apparently today is the official release. It has a lot of improvements and works a lot smoother. Also it has support for a lot of languages out of the box.
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