Poll: Still Going to JavaOne?

Sun's handling of Java from a legal perspective represented all that was right with the industry. Having a bruiser figuratively elbow his way into the party with a couple of lawyer friends then start charging guests retrospectively an entrance fee seems like a sure-fire way to stop a party. I won't be attending but I hope the keynote addresses the legitimate concerns that the platform is going to start becoming a hunting ground for cherry picking patent lawsuits.

I attended two Java One Conferences in the last 90's.  The first was importants towards (back then) feeling comfortable with java.  The second seemed a waste of time because by then I knew enough java to feel confident in my ability to use it professionally.   I remember watching Sun's java advocate, or whatever her title was.  She did not know java and had never written a program in java.  With the wisdom of the years I'm using my spare time now to learn Objective C and PHP.  It will be interesting, from afar,  to hear what Ellison says about java.  My guess is that he will do some of the things to java that should have been done to it  ten years ago.  For example,  improving the javadoc.  It's interesting to compare Objective C's "collections" classes to java's "collection" classes.  Objective C has 3:   Dictionary,  Array, and List.  By contrast,  java has hundreds.   Why couldn't java have been designed with 3 like Objective C?  Why does java get progressively harder to use instead of progressivly easier to use?   Why is PHP available from every ISP,  but java is not available from any ISP's except for a handful who charge much more than a PHP ISP charges?  Stop the insanity.  The java emperor has no clothes.

I probably would have gone to JavaOne if they'd kept it in the May / June timeframe that it has been in for YEARS, but moving it to mid-September conflicts with a previous commitment. Oh well!