The first day of JavaOne is over, and what a day it was!

The tone was set fairly immediately, when the opening Session of the entire conference highlighted Sentilla right out the gate. That's right: among the more than 200 exhibitors in the conference -- including major heavyweights like Oracle, Intel, Motorola -- Sentilla was the first company mentioned by Sun. That was really exciting. See for yourself from Sun's webcast replay (we're mentioned starting at 3:52.)

We were recognized for a demo that we created for the JavaOne conference itself. Specifically, we built an application that tracks the number of people that enter and leave any given technical or general session along with the temperature and humidity of each room. I'm sure a member of our crack engineering team will eventually share a blog post on exactly how it was done (because it is very cool and they worked really hard on it), but for me it was simply thrilling to realize that for thousands upon thousands of people this was their first real-world taste of real-world computing.

The ones conducting the session were John Gage, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, and James Gosling, Sun Fellow and Vice President -- and huge Sentilla fan. Just getting either one of those guys to know your name is an accomplishment in and of itself; having them both start the conference holding up our pervasive computers was flat-out amazing and a testament to how we're changing the world.

This was a sign of things to come. We have three specific booths at JavaOne: our main booth in "Startup Alley" (booth 1224-2), a booth in the Java Playground, and a booth at the Show Device counter. All of our booths were pretty much swamped all day and evening. At one point in the morning there were about sixty people crowding around our one little area were I was (Show Device.) So busy, but so cool! It was just wonderful to share everything we've worked on this past year to an audience that was clearly excited to hear about it.

The day was pretty much non-stop in terms of traffic. However, we did take a moment to gather as a team as Joe was given a Duke's Choice Award by James Gosling in the early evening. The Duke's Choice reflects true innovations in Java technology and are determined by Gosling personally along with a special team of experts. Given how effusive Gosling has been about our technology, we weren't altogether surprised to learn that we had won. Still, it's always great to be recognized for hard work, and that's certainly how we see it.

The day was even more exciting than I've been able to properly convey in this post. But if you consider that it started with a shout-out from John Gage and James Gosling in front of the entire conference, and ended with a presitigious Duke's Choice Award, you get the idea. We can barely wait until Day Two.