Java Posse #279 - Interview with Joe Darcy and Alex Buckley

Interview with Joe Darcy and Alex Buckley Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the JVM Language Summit 2009, we sync up with Joe and Alex on subjects like Projects Coin and Lombok, closures and properties for JVM languages, the JVM Language Summit, and the future of Java.

• JVM Language summit
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Main_Page
• Java Community Process (JCP)
• http://jcp.org/en/home/index
• Project Coin
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
• JSR-330 - Dependency Injection for Java
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=330
• Da Vinci machine project
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Da_Vinci_Machine
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
• Method handles for closures
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/method_handles_in_a_nutshell
• Meta Object Protocol
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/MOP_and_Invokedynamic
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject
• Project lombok
• http://projectlombok.org/
• Annotation processor
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/apt/
• ASM & bytecode manipulation
• http://asm.ow2.org/
• Remove checked exceptions
• http://projectlombok.org/disableCheckedExceptions.html
• Scala case classes
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/107
• Closures proposal
• http://javac.info/
• Extension methods
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx
• Joe Darcy blog - annotation support in tools - @Property
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/properties_via_annotation_processing
• Reified generics
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
• JSR-14 - Generics - migration compatibility
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=14
• Uniform access principle
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle
• Operator overloading
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_overloading
• Design by contract
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract
• Alternative languages
• Groovy - http://groovy.codehaus.org
• Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/
• JavaFX - http://javafx.com/
• Clojure - http://clojure.org/
• JRuby - http://jruby.org/
• Jython - http://www.jython.org/
• Modularity - JSR 294 and Jigsaw
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=294
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
• Tail calls - JSR 292
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tail_calls_in_the_vm

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• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
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