At Sun Microsystems JavaOne conference in June 2004, Sun announced that they had licensed the Watson technology and were porting it to the Java programming language under the name Project Alameda.
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At the 2007 JavaOne conference Sun made further desktop related announcements, including a new language aimed at taking on Adobe Flash (JavaFX), a new lightweight way of downloading the JRE that sees the initial footprint reduced to under 2 Mb, and a renewed focus on multimedia libraries.
At JavaOne 2008, Sun and Liferay announced a strategic partnership that combines efforts and technologies from both company's communities to enhance and maintain web aggregation and presentation technologies that are utilized in existing and future products.