OpenJDK@FOSS.in

This is first time I am blogging. Let me introduce my self my name is Raghu K Nair and working for Sun Micro systems.
I would like to share my experience in FOSS.in. FOSS.IN is India's largest Free & Open Source Software event (http://foss.in/2006/info/Main_Page) and held annually.This years event was held on November 24-26, 2006, at National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. SUN micro system a platinum sponsor of FOSS.in and had 8 talks on various sun open sourced products.
Sun booth showcased Open Solaris, Glassfish, Derby, OpenJDK, Portal Server, Looking Glass etc. I was part of OpenJDK team. Sun recently (Nov 13th) GPLed Java :) (http://openjdk.dev.java.net). Currently Compiler and Hotspot are out. Demos are based on JSR 269 (annotation processor API- public spec) and Tree API (former: internal- Sun Proprietary). Demos shows how you can enhance the javac features using the APIs open-sourced implementation.
Around 120 people have visted OpenJDK booth. Most of the people were from application development background more of a java user. There were lots good questions came up in the discussion. But most of the questions were already covered in Open JDK FAQ. (http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp).
Let me continue this topic in my next blog..