"We are actively promoting Java in China as well as the rest of Asia-Pacific," said Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive of Sun, in an interview with China Daily.

"We are working with the (Chinese) government and other key players to establish Java as the industry standard for delivering open and secure services."

Java technology is being used globally in more than 2.5 billion devices, including 1 billion smart cards, more than 708 million mobile phones, more than 700 million PCs, and in data centres of the world's largest companies and organizations.

Isn't that a good news to start the day with?

Java technology has consequently helped generate revenues of US$100 billion annually, according to McNealy.

Java is witnessing a sharp up-take in China, largely due to the "fascinating" growth of the Java community in the country.

McNealy said there are now 800,000 Java developers in China, making it one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world. Globally the Java community has 4.5 million developers.

"We can thank the upsurge of the mobile gaming market (in China) growing at a rate of 150 per cent from 2003 for much of that growth," he said.

Good news all around.

Source: People's Daily Online