Java Spotlight Episode 77: Donald Smith on the OpenJDK and Java
- by Roger Brinkley
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An interview with Donald Smith about Java and OpenJDK.
Joining us this week on the Java All Star Developer Panel are
Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador and Arun Gupta, Java EE Guy.
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Show Notes
News
Jersey 2.0 Milestone 2 available
Oracle distribution of Eclipse (OEPE) now supports GlassFish 3.1.2
Oracle Linux 6 is now part of the certification matrix for 3.1.2
3rd part of Spring -> Java EE 6 article series published
Joe Darcy - Repeating annotations in the works
JEP 152: Crypto Operations with Network HSMs
JEP 153: Launch JavaFX Applications
OpenJDK bug database: Status update
OpenJDK Governing Board 2012 Election: Results
jtreg update March 2012
Take Two: Comparing JVMs on ARM/Linux
The OpenJDK group at Oracle is growing
App bundler project now open
Events
April 4-5, JavaOne Japan, Tokyo, Japan
April 11, Cleveland JUG, Cleveland, OH
April 12, GreenJUG, Greenville, SC
April 17-18, JavaOne Russia, Moscow Russia
April 18–20, Devoxx France, Paris, France
April 17-20, GIDS, Bangalore
April 21, Java Summit, Chennai
April 26, Mix-IT, Lyon, France,
May 3-4, JavaOne India, Hyderabad, India
May 5, Bangalore, Pune, ?? - JUG outreach
May 7, OTN Developer Day, Mumbai
May 8, OTN Developer Day, Delhi
Feature InterviewDonald
Smith, MBA, MSc, is Director of Product Management for Oracle. He
brings worldwide enterprise software experience, ranging from small
"dot-com" through Fortune 500 companies. Donald speaks regularly about
Java, open source, community development, business models, business
integration and software development politics at conferences and events
worldwide including Java One, Oracle World, Sun Tech Days, Evans
Developer Relations Conference, OOPSLA, JAOO, Server Side Symposium,
Colorado Software Summit and others. Prior to returning to Oracle,
Donald was Director of Ecosystem Development for the Eclipse Foundation,
an independent not-for-profit foundation supporting the Eclipse open
source community.
Mail Bag
What’s Cool
OpenJDK 7 port to Haiku
JEP 154: Remove Serialization
Goto for the Java Programming Language