OTN Tech Cast LIVE: Justin Kestelyn Interviews Mark Reinhold

Yesterday, in a live Tech Cast event on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), Justin Kestelyn interviewed Mark Reinhold. The interview is currently available in full bandwidth, and it will be available in Brightcove and audio-only versions within the next few days. [Note: a lower bandwidth edition is now available at https://channelsun.sun.com/media/show/15028.] If you are familiar with Mark's work, you'll not be surprised to find that Java 7 was the central topic of conversation. Attendance at the live event peaked at about 80 people. The interview occupied about 30 minutes, and included a question and answer period where Mark addressed questions from the audience that were submitted via Facebook or Twitter. Mark cited four primary objectives for Java 7: Modularity - make Java scalable downward, for customizable use on small devices; this will also address the "jar hell" problem once and for all Multilingual support Make Java a more productive language, through improvements like Project Coin, the new diamond operator, strings and switch, and JSR-203 (NIO.2) Performance improvements - Hotspot and JRockit VM development, parallel array, closures (which will make implementation of parallel array structures much more convenient) In response to a question from Justin, Mark said that upcoming Milestone 6 release will likely include the diamond operator and strings and switches, and subsequent near-term milesto...

Date: February, 17 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2010/02/17/otn-tech-cast-live-justin-kestelyn-interviews-mark-reinhold

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