JavaOne 2025 Day 1: Our World, Moved by Java
InfoQ, Friday, March 21st, 2025
Day One of JavaOne 2025, in conjunction with the release of JDK 24, was held on March 18th, 2025, at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. Key takeaways included: Scott McNealy providing a retrospective on how Java was created; Mark Reinhold discussing how Oracle stewards Java by balancing conservation with innovation; and an enumeration of 11 developer pain points and their respective solutions.
What follows is a summary of the keynote address and highlighted presentations.
Opening Keynote: Our World, Moved by Java
Chad Arimura, vice president, Java Developer Relations at Oracle, facilitated this keynote address entitled, Our World, Moved by Java. Arimura opened with the original quote from Sun Microsystems that characterized Java: