JavaPolis organized a 25 minute Q&A keynote session with James Gosling. A nice opportunity for the European Java developers to ask the father of Java about 'where is Swing going', 'what do you feel about Android', 'what is the future of Java in the RIA space' and lots more. Enjoy!
James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a text editor called 'Emacs' for Unix systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. In February 2007, James was named an officer of the Order of Canada.
Taming Code Dependencies— During this session we'll talk about code dependencies between classes and packages in large scale software projects: what they are, and why they're important,
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.
Java SE Update— 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.
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!
