<p>JavaOne 2012 "Make the future Java" is the official slogan of this year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, but if there was a central theme to Sunday's keynote presentations, it was that moving Java forward is not just an Oracle project but a community effort.</p><p>Throughout the more than three hours of talks and demos, members of Oracle's Java team repeatedly called on conference-goers to get involved by downloading, testing, and contributing code to the next versions of Java SE, Java EE, and Java for embedded devices.</p><p>The latter received special attention during the opening Java Strategy keynote, with Oracle executive VP Hasan Rizvi explaining that the database giant was seeing "lots of demand" for Java running on Linux for ARM-based devices, the most recent platform to gain support for the language.</p><p>"We're surrounded by devices, many of them so unobtrusive that you don't even know you're around them all the time," said Nandini Ramani, Oracle's VP of engineering, adding that the current explosion of tiny, connected devices represents "the next revolution in computing."</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/02/javaone_2012_keynotes/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-java-upgrades-still-worthwhile-despite-postponed-features-203652">Oracle: Java upgrades still worthwhile despite postponed features</a> (InfoWorld)</p><p><a href="http://java.dzone.com/articles/javaone-2012-java-strategy">JavaOne 2012: Java Strategy Keynote and IBM Keynote</a> (DZone News)</p><p><a href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=68718">Lambda in Java 8: A fundamental change in how Java programs are developed</a> (TheServerSide.com)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dsG-_DHmV_2yJGMB8s78zKJt4u5uM">30 additional articles.</a></p>