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.
In addition this talk will discuss the open source models for participation in Sun's implementations via the Glassfish and OpenJDK communities.
Dr Danny Coward is the lead architect for the Java SE platform. In the past he has led the development of several technologies in the Java EE and Java ME platforms. Danny is Sun's representative on the JCP Executive Committee for Java SE and Java EE.
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Mark Reinhold and Alex Buckley Devoxx Interview— Ted Neward interviews both Mark Reinhold and Alex Buckley at Devoxx 2008. During this interview they discuss the future of Java SE 7, the newly announced Jigsaw modularity project and how this might look like for the Java developers. Ted also tried to get more info about a possible schedule for Java SE 7!
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