During this JavaPolis presentation, Danny Coward (platform lead for Java SE) gives a broad (not necessarily deep) picture of the work Sun Microsystems is doing in and around the Java SE platform and on JavaFX.
Danny Coward lives and works from home in San Francisco, California. He has worked at Sun Microsystems since 1997 and is the Platform Lead for Java SE, and Sun's Java SE/EE representative on the Executive Committee for the Java Community Process.
The Java Puzzlers— Josh Bloch and Neal Gafter present yet another installment in the continuing saga of Java Puzzlers, consisting of eight more programming puzzles for your entertainment and enlightenment.
Java - A tour of the landscape— During this JavaPolis '07 keynote, James Gosling (father of Java) presents The State of the Java Universe. Java SE and JavaFX receive special attention during this keynote, where the first ideas towards a possible FX Designer tool gets presented.
Interview with James Gosling at JavaPolis'07— During this JavaPolis '07 interview, the JavaPosse interviews James Gosling and talk about detailed features of the Java language, but also other programming languages like C, C++ and Fortran all in relation to the Java Virtual Machine. Enjoy!
The Future of Computing - Discussion Panel— During this historic JavaPolis '07 discussion panel, James Gosling, Joshua Bloch, Neal Gafter, Martin Odersky and moderator Carl Quinn discuss the future of (Java) Computing and lots more. 'Why is immutable not part of the Java language' and 'How should the Java platform evolve?' are questions discussed by this very relaxed panel.
A Groovy interview at JavaPolis'07— In this Groovy interview the JavaPosse members talk with Guillaume LaForge about the new features of version 1.5. They ask what he thinks about the Closures controversy and how it fits in the Groovy language. How can you leverage Groovy in an enterprise Java project using Grails and what books should we Groovy newbies read ?
