One of the things I love about my job is the fact that I get to meet developers from all over the world. A while back I sat down and figured out that, during my career, I’ve spoken about Java to audiences in 57 countries (and I’m always looking for new places to go).
This week we had one of the three face-to-face meetings that the JCP executive committee (EC) has each year. This is only my second meeting of this format; despite my long history with Java it’s interesting to see the way things work from this perspective. Since the minutes of the meeting have not yet
Many years ago, when I was working at Sun doing Java Evangelism, a friend of mine bought me a genuine crystal ball. He said I was always trying to tell people about the future of Java, so I might as well be appropriately equipped. Since this is the first week of 2017 (happy new
I’m really not sure how I stumbled across this link, but it was a while ago and I put a reminder in my diary so I’d remember the twentieth anniversary of the unveiling of the @deprecated javadoc tag. As such I thought some reflections on this would make an interesting blog entry. When Java was
This is a quick note for developers who are tracking Java 9. We’ve just uploaded new OpenJDK pre-release builds of Java 9, matching project source build 136. This build incorporates OpenJDK Java 9 code as of September 14, 2016. The pre-release binaries are also trackable as Zulu 9, release 8. Zulu 9 is available for
Last month I gave a keynote presentation at the Riga Dev Days on “Open Source and OpenJDK: Do They Deliver?” One of the key themes of this was looking at how much involvement there is in the OpenJDK project from outside of Oracle (and Sun before it was acquired). Earlier this month a small but,
A while back, I spent an evening in front of a video camera putting together a four-part series explaining Zulu, the family of Java kits provided by Azul based on OpenJDK. With the video series, we were looking for a reasonable way to encapsulate everything from the Zulu product family into a few quick study
Last week was the Jfokus Developer Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, which was celebrating its tenth anniversary. Unlike some conferences, Jfokus has a “two year rule,” which means that you can present in two consecutive years, but not for a third. As such, I think I have been to most of the ten conferences, but not
Simon Ritter has recently joined Azul Systems as Deputy CTO. We sat down and had a chat with him to find out what he’s going to be doing and his thoughts on the world of Java at the moment and in the future. Q: Deputy CTO sounds like a great role, what exactly will
News Highlights: Azul providing pre-release builds of Zulu, its open source build of OpenJDK, for developers interested in using Java 9 features and capabilities nearly a year ahead of the scheduled Java 9 release date Pre-release builds of Zulu supporting Java 9 are available immediately for Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms from zulu.org Today at
