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 Alexandre Gomes's Blog
Alexandre Gomes is a Master degree student at Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil, researching on ubiquitous computing and developing a component model to abstract physical devices as software components. CTO of SEA Tecnologia working on Java™ EnterpriseEdition, Hibernate, Struts... and mobile games with Java™MicroEdition. Board member of SouJava, the most important brazilian JUG. Alexandre has 8 years of Java experience. Already worked for SERPRO (Federal Bureau for Brazilian IT), Oracle, Sun Professional Services, Sun Education, and other local companies. Winner of 3 brazilian mobile Java™MicroEdition developer contests promoted by Motorola (2001), Nokia (2003) and WebMobile Magazine (2004). SCJP, SCBCD, SCWCD and SCEA(I). Speaker for more than 20 times in the biggests brazilian technical conferences. Sun Authorized Java Instructor. OOP teacher at University of Brasilia, Brazil. 2007 - The year of Java in TVPosted by alegomes on May 10, 2007 at 04:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)Every JavaOne bring us numbers. For the mobile universe, the actual numbers are: 2.1 billion Java handsets, 2.5 billion Java Cards, 4 million Blu-Ray devices and 7 million set-top boxes. Wow, that's impressing, but there's something smelling different this year... If I'm not wrong, 2001 was the mobile year at JavaOne. The big focus was the introduction of J2ME to the community. I felt like being asked all the time to get into that new and exciting technology (and so I did). In 2002, the message was like "Java in mobile devices is a fact, what are you waiting for?". And, since then, mobility has always been in JavaOne. Looking from distance, this year is not different from others. Mobility is a recurrent subject in BOFs, TSs e General Sessions. However, in my opinion, we are living a new big moment for the Mobility and Embedded Java world that need to be remarked. For me, this is the year of the Java and TV related technologies. As 2001 is remembered by me as the year Java was massive inserted into cellphones, 2007 will me remembered as the year that Java was popularized in the television, and that's one of cool stuffs I've talked before! If you are not sure about it, look at the numbers. Set-top boxes has never been so numerous and Blu-Ray is out there. A number of set-top boxes are being shipped with OCAP (PBP/CDC/JME) deployed and Blu-Ray comes with a JRE as well! During the Mobility General Session, Laurie Tolson repeated several times "Volume Creates Opportunity". The TV industry affection about Java can double the device volume we have today. Two times more devices may means four times more opportunities. So, stay tuned in this so promising market. At least, don't miss the show today (Thursday, 05/10/2007):
Yes, thanks to all those who is helping Java goes towards ubiquity. Talking about Cool Stuffs at JavaOne 2007Posted by alegomes on May 08, 2007 at 05:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)As computers go towards ubiquity, common life changes. The masses don't care about the latest Glassfish release or the OpenJDK open-source license. They do care about entertainment tools, fancy devices and smart-cars. That's what changes their lives, in the common sense. Yes, I know all the enterprise stuff and the licensing model impact the way technology is applied and evolves, but now I'm talking as an ordinary consumer, and not as a developer. During Consumer Technologies track, at JavaOne, you can hear about things that impacts directly the way of our lives. Here is a small list of topics to be presented:
So, don't miss the train. If you want to change the everyday life, go ahead and bring Java to the masses, not only by the web, but also by common and cool stuffs. Let's create an effective ubiquitous Java world. The Java realm is plenty of awesome technologies. It's time to make them all work for common people. It's time to stop creating CRUDs (the world has already plenty of CRUDs :-)). I'm sure we can do better. Using MIDP just as another View layer for enterprise applications is not that interesting. However, combining MIDP with Bluetooth, Jini, JavaCard, JXTA and others are a good way to start things up. I'm going to talk deeper about it later. Finally, powering consumer services and devices with the Java Technology can make it disappear as the most profound technologies in the world, as said by Mark Weiser. It's just a matter of being creative. Thanks for reading and enjoy the JavaOne! -Alexandre Gomes
Towards Ubiquitous ComputingPosted by alegomes on April 30, 2007 at 09:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)Mauricio Leal posted these days: "One day, they (consumers) will wake up and realize that they won’t need computers like today. Instead of sitting down in a chair and reaching the information, the information will be wide available in your pocket, wherever you go." I agree with him and I'd say more. In my point of view, the information will be wide available not only in your pocket, but wherever you want, like clothes, walls, tables or even in the water. Computer Specialization I believe that, in the future, specialized devices will take over generic computers. For instance, let's think about engines. Generic purpose engines don't exist anymore. My grandparents used to use a unique generic engine to get water from a watering hole and to triturate corn to feed little chickens. Now, engines come to the market as water pumps and mixers. That big device used for everything in the everyday life is now dead. When asked about that universal engine, my grandfather said it's gone, and he didn't need engines anymore. For him, engines is now used only in cars. For me, engines went invisible. In fact, engines became ubiquitous. Some years ago, I used to listen to MP3 files in a 486 DX2 PC powered by Winamp. It was a very big and dirty white box. Today, all what I need to play MP3 files fits in my pocket is can be called as iPod. That means, again, generic engines (PC) was replaced by specialized ones (iPod) and, probably, not all of those iPod owners know that they have a complete computer inside their pocket. Maybe, they don't even like computers! For them, they don't need computers anymore to listen to MP3s. For me, now they need computers more than ever. IMO, computers started to become invisible and ubiquitous. So, I believe the way we use computers (as users, not developers) today will no longer exists in the future. I think, in the future, we will have a computer for browsing, a computer for office stuff, a computer for playing, a computer for home controll and so on, and all of them will be cheaper, smaller and easier to use than today. But, what about Java? That's a good question, and I'll talk about it later. see'ya Alê!  |
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