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20050627 Monday June 27, 2005

Made it to JavaOne I arrived in San Francisco at 8:30 this morning, and headed downtown to the Moscone center. I've been sitting in the "General Session" room for the last couple of hours, and there's been some interesting announcements. You can get a Sun Ultra 20 Workstation for $30/month and it comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. The guy on stage made it sound like a screaming machine, but it was also a Sun sales pitch.

Another announcement is they're dropping the "2" from J2EE and J2SE. Now we're not supposed to say the "J", but rather "Java". Now it's called "Java EE". I think the 2 needed to be dropped, but I think it'll take a while before Java EE has the same ring as J2EE. I can already see folks calling it "Java, eh". Posted in JavaOne at Jun 27 2005, 12:02:17 PM MDT 4 Comments

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Sounds like something that a Trademark attorney told them to do.

Posted by Michael Brzycki on June 27, 2005 at 01:10 PM MDT #

It'll be interesting to see how this affects job postings and resumes. Online job searches will get tougher IMO. Searching for "J2EE" you can pretty much count on for server-side jobs, but I'm not so sure "Java EE" will be quite the same.

Posted by Winston Rast on June 27, 2005 at 01:36 PM MDT #

Java EE? That stinks. Why not just Java Enterprise and Java Standard -- they seem to roll off the tongue better than Java EE - too many vowels in row. When your abbrevation takes more work to say than what you're abbreviating, maybe you should rethink it.

Posted by Erik Hansen on June 27, 2005 at 03:17 PM MDT #

I just read the announcement on the JavaOne recap on java.sun.com and it sounds like the new naming doesn't take effect until Java SE 6 (you like my use of the new verbage?) gets released. Is that not true? Has it been renamed right now? erik

Posted by Erik Weibust on June 28, 2005 at 08:08 AM MDT #

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