Java SE: The Road Ahead

Java Track 6.1 - Long Talk Jazoon'11
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 10:30-11:20, Arena 5

Danny Coward Oracle, United States of America	Java SE: The Road Ahead Its been a big year for Java SE, with the imminent and much anticipated release of Java SE 7 and JDK 7. This talk will step you through the final incarnations of the new features for Java SE 7, in particular those language changes focussing on productivity, the new APIs for concurrent programming, and access to modern filesystems, and the deep changes in the Java Virtual Machine to enable the optimization smarts built on year of experience optimising Java programs to accelerate bytecode produced from applications written in other languages such as Ruby, Groovy, Scala and more. The talk will also preview new features under development for Java SE 8, due in 2012.

Danny Coward
Oracle, United States of America

Java SE: The Road Ahead

Its been a big year for Java SE, with the imminent and much anticipated release of Java SE 7 and JDK 7. This talk will step you through the final incarnations of the new features for Java SE 7, in particular those language changes focussing on productivity, the new APIs for concurrent programming, and access to modern filesystems, and the deep changes in the Java Virtual Machine to enable the optimization smarts built on year of experience optimising Java programs to accelerate bytecode produced from applications written in other languages such as Ruby, Groovy, Scala and more. The talk will also preview new features under development for Java SE 8, due in 2012.