Bill Foote

(I'm the one on your left.)

E-mail: bill.foote @ sun.com

I'm currently working on the Java TV architecture and standards group. I specialize in application lifecycle, resource management, java security issues, content production consulting, and frequent flyer miles.

Previously, I worked in the EmbeddedJava/PersonalJava group. I did some standards work for the Real Time Extensions for the Java^TM Platform.

Before that, I worked on browser-related technologies. I lead the engineering effort for the Personal WebAccess HTML Component. This work was mostly concentrated on making the browser run well in low-memory environments.

As part of this work, I created the Heap Analysis Tool, a tool for exploring the object topology of a heap snapshot. I hacked a prototype heap snapshot into JDK 1.1.x, and Sheng Liang and Deepa Viswanathan made it real and integrated it with JDK 1.2's JVMPI (JVM* Profiling Interface).

External Homepage

I have an external homepage at http://jovial.com/.

Talks and Such

Gave a talk on the application of Java TV^TM technologies at JavaOne '00.
Gave a talk on PersonalJava^TM at JESS '99 in Paris. You can get the slides in PDF format.
As part of my involvement with Sun's Real-time Effort, I gave a number of talks and wrote several position papers.
When I was in the HotJava group, I wrote a white paper on inter-applet communication. (If that link goes stale, I kept a copy here.)

JavaOne '98

Along with Sheng, gave a talk on surviving in a low-memory environment, How to Reduce Memory Usage of Java Applications: Lessons from the Battlefield. Click on the lower-left hand corner of a slide to advance to the next one. This talk introduced HAT, which livesd at https://hat.dev.java.net/ (archived at https://github.com/zathras/java.net/tree/master/hat.
Was listed as the speaker for the Developing Applications for Small Devices birds of a feather session. Since BOFs are an interactive forum with little perpared comment, this mostly meant that I was required to show up :-)

JavaOne '97 Talk

I gave part of a talk at JavaOne in '97. My part was about how to combine a custom UI and a custom protocol handler to build a multi-tier client/server application on top of HotJava. The code for my demo is here.

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I just noticed! It looks like the web team has set up a script that adds stuff to the end of my homepage. As I write this, their message of the day seems to relate to trademark issues. Anyway, the following has been automatically added for your browsing pleasure:

*As used on this web site, the terms "Java virtual machine" or "JVM" mean a virtual machine for the Java platform.