Yesterday Sun Microsystems released version 6 of Java Standard Edition. So today I immediately went to JavaPolis at Antwerp to see this new system in action… Well actually I was lucky because with my school the entrance was only about 5 euros.

Hence, no Java 6. But it was quite funny ! I didn’t go to a forum before (except for the boekenbeurs) and so I wasn’t prepared for the huge amount of information and gadgets.

Some things I noticed :

- Lots of free food and drinks – picture (Bruno collecting lots of coke)

- Companies who want to collect all your personal data (but you get a gadget for return !! ) – picture (Ward putting his emailadres into the Canon machine, so he can get his Java cap).

- the corner of IBM. Literally pushed back in the corner. Bit sad, isn’t it ? – picture

- ugly crazy t-shirts – picture

- Microsoft-boys presenting their Vista. – picture1, picture2 (mcBruno getting his first visual studio, before throwing it away again… why bruno why ? :-p)

- Oracle at JavaPolis. After working with 9i I was a bit scared of them, but actually it now seems a very interesting company ! – picture

- Interesting keynotes of Spring, Pojo and jMaki, although I fell asleep during one

- Lots of Macs !!!

- My classmates getting high ranks with JavaBlackBelt ! – picture
- And finally : Sun and beer ! – picture
Well, so far the fun. Back to work

P.S. I’m changing to another webhoster with JSP. During the following days some parts of Screenager can become unreachable.