Gosling’s keynote surveyed important and interesting technologies in the pipeline including Glassfish v3, which can scale down as well as up and where “EJB is easy”; real time support, where you have more choices in the tradeoff between “Throughput vs Determinism”; new garbage collection options; gains in performance; compressed pointers, allowing 32GiB of address space with the same performance as 4GiB; and the promise of JavaFX with it’s upcoming designer-friendly support in providing impressive web experiences, because “more people see a bank’s web site than the inside of their lobby”.
