In November of 2006 Sun announced that it would publish the JDK source code under the GNU General Public License and build a community around that code. This talk will review the progress of that effort so far, show the different ways in which developers can get involved, and discuss what's yet to come.
Mark Reinhold is the Chief Engineer for the Java™ Platform, Standard Edition, at Sun Microsystems. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. He was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He currently leads the engineering team for the OpenJDK project and also serves as chair of the OpenJDK Governance Board. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Interview with Bob Lee at JavaPolis'07
— Put simply, Guice alleviates the need for factories and the use of new in your Java code. Think of Guice's @Inject as the new new. You will still need to write factories in some cases, but your code will not depend directly on them. Your code will be easier to change, unit test and reuse in other contexts.
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Closures Questions with Joshua Bloch
— A very interesting JavaPolis Q&A session with Joshua Bloch on closures and other Java related topics. From 'Is there an impedance mis-match with Java and the BGGA proposal?' to 'Was the wildcard feature tried out thoroughly enough?' and 'What is your job at Google?'... enjoy the ride!
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The Closures Controversy
— Last year Neal Gafter premiered his BGGA Closures proposal at JavaPolis. One year later Joshua Bloch presented his view on the Closures Controversy and why he feels that CICE is a more suitable approach. One way to look at the available proposals is to consider the impact on Java as a language: whether it's possible to undergo fundamental change while still preserving the 'Feel of Java'.
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The future will be about programming languages
— During this Jazoon keynote Ted Neward talks about why the next five years in IT will be about languages. The programming language virtualization, tools, linguistic focus and expressiveness are different forces that are coming of age. Not to mention the impact of the over-used and over-hyped Domain-Specific languages. How will these languages tackle the evolving application security demands or rich user interfaces, Ted Neward approaches these questions in his own unique style.
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Evolving the Java SE and Java EE Platforms
— This presentation will give an overview of the continuing evolution of the Java Platform. With the successful launches of the Java EE 5 and Java SE 6 platforms in 2006, we look ahead to the new developments in the platforms beyond these existing releases. Technical highlights of the talk will include the new modularity technologies in Java SE 7 for packaging, distributing and publishing application code (sometimes known as super-JARs and super-packages), a survey of the candidates for additions to the Java language as well as the work in the JVM to support other languages such as Ruby and Python. Highlights will also include the new work planned in Java EE 6 to make the platform more extensible, the candidate technologies to extend the SOA architecture of Java EE and key enhancements to the existing web and EJB technologies.
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