A News.com special report from the beginning of this year. Interesting how many of these things turned out... or didn't. Looking back, it seems that not a lot of really things happened this year, not just on Java's side, rather things seem to have consolidated slowly: incremental improvements in Sun's toolkit on one side, more definitions on the strategy and dev tools of .Net and such, the growth of wireless and weblogs, web services... it was more like the world awakening slowly to a lot of technology that was already in place before... maybe 2003 will be more decisive.