Java Spotlight Episode 105: Mark Reinhold on the Future of Java

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Our yearly interview with Mark Reinhold, Chief Java Architect, Java Platform Group on the future of Java.

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Show Notes

News

Two Java Update Releases
New Java SE 6 software updates from Apple for OS X 10.8, 10.7 and 10.6 are now live and available to all customers via the Mac App Store / Software Update.
The JavaFX Community Site on Java.net
JSR 360: Connected Limited Device Configuration 8
JSR 361: Java ME Embedded Profile
2012 JCP EC Election Ballot open
Meet the EC Candidates Recording and Materials

Events

Oct 22-23, Freescale Technology Forum - Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Oct 23-25, EclipseCon Europe, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Oct 30-Nov 1, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, United States of America
Oct 31, JFall, Hart van Holland, Netherlands
Nov 2-3, JMaghreb, Rabat, Morocco
Nov 5-9, Øredev Developer Conference, Malmö, Sweden
Nov 13-17, Devoxx, Antwerp, Belgium
Nov 20-22, DOAG 2012, Nuremberg, Germany
Dec 3-5, jDays, Göteborg, Sweden
Dec 4-6, JavaOne Latin America, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Feature Interview

Mark Reinhold is Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, where he works on the Java Platform, Standard Edition, and OpenJDK. 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. Mark was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He is currently leading the Jigsaw and JDK 7 Projects in the OpenJDK Community. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this interview he discusses the future of Java Platform with regards to Jigsaw, Lambda, and Nashorn components as well as the OpenJDK community.

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