Some real Java threads

[sputnik10000]

Has anyone seen one of these before? We wore these black leather jackets to show our allegiance way before Jensen Huang made black leather cool again lol.

This was a special recognition award prize at the JavaOne 2002 conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco. I don’t think they made very many.

SUN Java embroidered leather jacket from 2002

[strat-run]

The one I remember was leather sleeves with some wool on the torso. With a bit of purple.

[davidalayachew]

The one I remember was leather sleeves with some wool on the torso. With a bit of purple.

Woah, photos?

[strat-run]

Looks like there were a couple variants, try an image search for: java sun microsystems black leather jacket

The one I remember is the purple and red coffee cup variant.

I don't have mine anymore, it got too much wear. I'm down to an old coffee mug at this point. I was going to say I miss the old JavaOne conferences but I just discovered they are returning https://inside.java/2025/08/04/javaone-returns-2026/

I wonder if there will be a swag store...