After a long (yet exhilarating) week the final day started with two keynotes, almost as if Oracle somehow knew that people may not have had much sleep the night before ;-)
This year July 24-27 I was invited to speak at the first JavaOne conference held in Shanghai, China. Over the four days the conference delivered a concentrated dose of Java and helped me get a good overview of the current state of Java across all versions. It also showed that the divide between where Oracle thinks Java is going and the reality as I see it day-to-day is getting bigger, with Oracle selling the image of a bright future for Java where I see Java slowly loosing ground against other programming languages.