At the time I’m writing this, Devoxx 2008 is well into it’s second day. Day one was quite interesting, with the major announcement being the release of JavaFX 1.0 last week. Apart from that, IBM presented their RFID technology, which has been incorporated into our access badges. Day two held another major announcement: all of Java will be made modular. That means not only the SDK, but also the JRE and even the JVM. Expected release date of JDK 7: somewhere in 2010… (more…)