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Sharat Chandler
- Started by throwing two stuffed Dukes to the audience
- 30 years of Java
- 25th edition of JavaOne
- People first, technology second.
- 360+ Java User Groups
- 400+ Java Champions
- 1M+ through Oracle University
Heather Stevens (Oracle education)
- Brought up two people from College Board; education group
- learn.java – for for beginners, teachers and students
- Had education submit on Monday at JavaOne
- Monday field trip to see FIRST Robotics Competition team at Oracle Design Tech High School (BREAD). [ got to go. It was nice seeing another team’s space]
Student Panel
- 4 students on panel and 1 student as moderator
- Point of education is to learn how to learn and work within context
- Cybersecurity is almost as broad as computer science itself.
AI Tools Adoption – Lize Raes/Ana-Maria Mihalceanu/Paul Bakker/Simon Martinelli
- Audience poll: AI most useful for reading and understanding code
- “I find it most useful for everything” – Simon
- Move faster
- AI created migrations
- Audience poll: unsurprisingly most people said much more productivity with AI. About 5% put less productive and about 10% said about the same though.
- When code generation is a commodity, stills that matter: maintainable code, scalable to future systems
Chad Arimura/Colt McNealy, Mandeep Gill/Zoran Sevarac
- Panel for startups
- Gave example where had to switch from Python to Java
- Java has technical advantage for business critical scaling and also business ecosystem that exists
- Colt made joke about doing Java because of his dad [co-founder of Sun]
- exciting features: data oriented programming, virtual threads
- More time helping customers user AI than doing it by self – Colt
- Docs mainly written by AI
- Most important thing is talking to users and understanding what their problem is
- Understand business value and logic
- Hire people smarter than you
Jim Grisanzio/Bruno Souza/Mala Gupta/Brian Vermeer
- Panel of community leaders
- Only about half the audience is a member of a JUG (or didn’t want to raise their hands). More raised hands for learned something/watched a video from a JUG
- Knowledge flows between juniors and seniors in both directions
- Some users groups run conferences with thousands of attendees. Ex: Netherlands JUG runs two conferences a year. Helps with growth and getting broader people in. Country wide and local (city level) JUGs. Delhi had over 1000 participants every year.
- Bruno doing tour of 10 JUGs on this trip
- Venkat did tour of 12 JUGs in Brazil
- Mentorship Hub at this conference
- Community gives you relationships; AI can’t do that
Aton Arhipov – Intellij
- IntelliJ is 25 years old
- Product originally called IntelliJ Renamed – a standalone Java refactoring tool
- Still built on Swing
- 2009 – open sourced the core
- Goal is to support every Java release on day 1
- Support for preview features
- More than just the language. ExL Maven 4 supported even though hasn’t shipped yet
- Includes Spring debugger
- Probabilistic AI + Deterministic tooling – reliable software
- in December 2025, merged community and ultimate into one edition. Subscription adds features
- Just launched Koog for Java – enterprise agentic framework for Java
Sharat & Duke
- dev.java
- inside.java
- youtube.com/java
- Shout out to Java Champions
- Logos from 16 Java conferences on screen
My take
The community keynote is always great and this year was no exception. I like the variety and that it comes from many parts of the Java community. I missed the community keynote last year (had to fly out Wednesday on the red eye for a robotics competition) so I’m super appreciating it this year. Cool seeing the original IntelliJ screen. Love that Shar brought Duke on stage for the end of the keynote. Duke doesn’t speak but did great gestures to participate.