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to discuss

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technologies, primarily among Java developers. It was held in

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, typically running from a Monday to Thursday in summer months (early on) or in early fall months (later). Technical sessions and Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions on a variety of Java-related topics were held throughout the week. The show was very popular; for the 1999 edition, there were 20,000 attendees at the

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. For many years, the conference was hosted by Sun executive and Java evangelist

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. In 1999, the conference played host to an event called the

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, a challenge set by Gage. Attendees were to write a program in Java for the new

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using the infrared port to communicate with other Palm users and register the device on the Internet. During the 2008 conference, seventy Moscone Center staff members and three attendees were sickened by an outbreak of

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. After the acquisition of Sun by Oracle Corporation in 2010, the conference was held concurrently with Oracle OpenWorld. The conference was moved from Moscone Center to hotels on nearby Mason Street. In some years, one block of Mason was closed and covered with a tent, which formed part of the conference venue. In April 2018, Oracle announced that the JavaOne conference would be discontinued, in favor of a more general programming conference called ''Oracle Code One''. The CodeOne conference ran for two years. In March 2022, Oracle announced that JavaOne will return in October 2022, reclaiming the position the now defunct CodeOne conference once occupied. The conference has moved to Las Vegas from its original location in San Francisco.

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Several of the conferences highlighted a hardware device, typically made available to attendees before it is sold to the general public, or at a steep discount: * 1998:

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* 1999:

* 2002:

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* 2004: Homepod, a wireless MP3 device from Gloolabs * 2006: SavaJe Jasper S20 phone * 2007:

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programmable robot * 2008: Sentilla Perk Kit, Pulse Smartpen, Sony Ericsson K850i * 2009: HTC Diamond with

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pre-installed

CommunityOne

From 2007 to 2009, an associated one-day event, CommunityOne, was held, for the broader free and open-source developer community. In 2009, CommunityOne expanded to New York City (CommunityOne East, March 18–19) and to Oslo, Norway (CommunityOne North, April 15). The third annual CommunityOne in San Francisco took place from June 1–3, 2009, at Moscone Center. Tracks included: * Cloud Platforms – Development and deployment in the cloud * Social and Collaborative Platforms – Social networks and Web 2.0 trends * RIAs and Scripting – Rich Internet Applications, scripting and tools * Web Platforms – Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers * Server-side Platforms – SOA, tools, application servers, and databases * Mobile Development – Mobile platforms, devices, tools and application development * Operating Systems and Infrastructure – Performance, virtualization, and native development * Free and Open – Open-source projects, business models, and trends CommunityOne was discontinued after the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.

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