As Director of Technology Outreach & Sun’s Open Source Programs Office, Matt Thompson leads Sun’s developer program (the Sun Developer Network) Sun’s technology evangelism efforts worldwide, and driving Sun’s open source strategy for developers. His team focuses on both building communities and educating and enabling communities of developers to easily adopt Sun’s emerging technologies across both the Java and Solaris platforms.
This session will cover much of the “what’s new” that will be talked about at JavaOne this June in San Francisco. In addition we will cover the “opening up” of the Java platform" (Project Peabody and GlassFish), and several other initiatives around performance, ease of development, and compatibility.