Sun Labs, CTO and Friends at JavaOne 2007

May 7, 2007 - Sun Microsystems Laboratories and Sun's CTO organization are well represented at JavaOne 2007, with 43 + researchers and engineers as well as external developers and collaborators, presenting ten technical sessions, four BOFs, two Hands On Labs and staffing three Pods on the Pavilion floor.

SONIA, a Java technology-based autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) will be on display in a special plexiglass tank in the Java Playground, staffed by five members of the SONIA team: Felix Pageau, Francois St Amant, Martin Morissette (Sun Labs intern, 2006), David Mercier, and Jean Francois Im (current Sun Labs interns).

Built by engineering students from Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) SONIA is one of the Duke's Choice 2007 award winners and will be one of the Java technologies—one of the toys—on stage in James Gosling's General Session Friday morning.

PAVILION FLOOR, TUESDAY—THURSDAY:

On the Pavilion Floor, Labs and CTO technologies will be showcased in various places and in four Pods.

• Sun SPOTs will be in action in the Blackbox, and share space in Pod 941, Designing User Experience for Java. Sun SPOTs are available for sale in the US at: SunSPOTWorld.com.

• Project Darkstar will be demoed by Karl Haberl, Jeff Kesselman, Seth Proctor and Chris Mellissinos.

• Project MPK20 and the PortaPerson will share Paul Byrne's Wonderland Pod, with Nicole Yankelovich, Jonathan Kaplan, Nigel Simpson, Joe Provino and Seth Proctor showing off the technologies when they are not giving Technical Sessions or BOFs. Project MPK20 will also be part of "Toy Show" in James Goslings keynote on Friday, May 11

• Project Caroline will be demoed by Mark Hodapp and his team: Brian Jeltema, Vinod Johnson, Jim Hurley, Bob Schiefler, Jennifer Kotzen, John McClain, Frank Barnaby and Andres Perez.

• Java Real-Time System Slot-Car Programming Challenge: An exercise in real time systems, this year with stoplights, masterminded by Greg Bollella; technical support by Keith Hargrove. If you want more information on the Sun Java Real-Time System 2.0 (Java RTS), take advantage of the Java RTS Sessions at JavaOne.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS, BOFS AND HANDS ON LABS:

MONDAY May 7:
Sun SPOTs kick off the week in a presentation at NetBeans Day on NetBeans Mobility. Eric Arseneau and Derek White demonstrate SPOTs and how to use NetBeans to develop Java applications for them.

TUESDAY, May 8:
Technical Sessions and BOFs begin on Tuesday, with Labs/CTO going into action in the afternoon:

• TS-1780: Sun SPOT in Action: 3-D, Virtual Reality, and Gaming; Simon Ritter, Angela Caicedo
• TS-1548: Search Inside the Music; Paul Lamere
• TS-6411: JSR 311: The Java API for RESTful Web Services; Marc Hadley and Paul Sandoz.

Two SPOTs BOFs round out the evening:

• BOF-1692: Introducing the Sun SPOT and the Sun SPOT Community; Randy Smith, Ron Goldman and Arshan Pourshoi
• BOF-1891: SPOTBot: Turning a Sun SPOT into a Rugged and Affordable Mobile Robot; Arshan and Bruce Boyes, Systronix, Inc.

WEDNESDAY, May 9:
Wednesday morning opens with The Sun SPOTs Hands on Lab; LAB -7230: Project Sun SPOT, Robots, and Java Technology, led by Eric Arseneau and Derek White; proctored by Roger Meike, Vipul Gupta, Pete St. Pierre, David Simmons, David Mercier and Poorna Udupi and featuring 100 Systronix robots with Sun SPOTs installed. Watch out for your feet!

Wednesday TS and BOFs include:

• TS-1990: Exploring the Deep with SONIA; Martin Morissette, Félix Pageau, SONIA AUV team
• TS-1991: Project Caroline: Platform as a Service, at Your Service, for Your Service; Bob Scheifler, Sun Microsystems
• TS-1786: Writing Games With Project Darkstar; Jeffrey Kesselman, Chris Melissinos, Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Mark Rizzo, Perpetual Entertainment
• BOF-1306: Through the Looking Glass: Project Wonderland--An Immersive, Collaborative, Shared Virtual 3-D Space; Paul Byrne, Nigel Simpson
• BOF-6412: Describing RESTful Applications: WADLing with Java; Marc Hadley

And in the evening a chance to get your hands dirty with Project Darkstar, the Sun Game Server in a HOL presented by Jeff Kesselman and Sridhar Reddy:

• LAB-7210: Hands-on with Project Darkstar: The JavaOne Conference MUD.

THURSDAY, May 10:
Thursday TS's feature a morning repeat of TS-1780: Sun SPOT in Action: 3-D, Virtual Reality, and Gaming, with something entirely new in the afternoon:

• TS-4919: Adding Telephony to Java Technology-Based Enterprise Applications, presented by Jonathan Kaplan, Sreeram Duvur.

FRIDAY, May 11:
The day begins with SONIA in James Gosling's Session: The Toy Show. Rumor has it the tank will move from the Java Playground to the stage so SONIA can swim for the Session audience!

And if you missed either the SONIA or Project Darkstar TS, you get another chance on Friday afternoon.

Hope you enjoy the show!