Presentation Stephen Colbourne Devoxx'09 Interview

The JavaPosse.com interviews Stephen Colbourne during Devoxx 2009 on the recently announced Closures support for JDK7. They briefly also discuss Joda time.
Published on: 2010-02-03T14:03:26.000Z
Channel: Devoxx'09 (all)
Tags: fcm bgga devoxx closures 2009 JDK7 cice
Speakers:

Stephen Colebourne

Stephan Colebourne has worked with Java since version 1.0, and contributed to open source software since 2000. My work includes Joda-Time, JSR 310 (Date and Time API) and Apache Jakarta Commons. I was elected a Java Champion in 2007.

Slides:

Introduction

Why were you involved with FCM?

Is there any parallel with whats happening with function handlers?

Method handlers caught alot of attention...

It could be a huge win having function pointers...

What about the closure syntax?

Could Google Collections benefit from it?

What's the status of JSR-310 / Joda time?