Monthly Archives: February 2013

Post #fosdem, #jfokus – lots more #java, #jsr & #openjdk news from all over!

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In the last couple of weeks since FOSDEM 2013, Jfokus 2013 and, events and hackdays organised by LJC JUG members, we have had a lots of exciting news and resources to share with you. The source of the information have been mailing lists / forums, meetup events, twitter and other sources.

Plenty were spoken about #java, #jsr and #openjdk, the topics covered by the #adoptajar and #adoptopenjdk programs.

FOSDEM 2013

Speaker interviews:

Jfokus 2013

#Jfokus coverage of #java, a snapshot by Kevin Farnham:

@steveonjava – Nighthacking!

Watch all the recordings of Steve’s Nighthacking from FOSDEM 2013 through to Jfokus 2013!

LJC events & hackdays

Garbage collection – The useful parts

WebSocket & JSON Hack Day (covering implementation for JSR 356 & JSR 353)

Bring your Performance Problems Panel

@adoptajsr news feed

– Plenty of updates on polls, JSRs, presentations, github projects, etc… were discussed on twitter.
– WebSocket & JSON Hack Day (covering implementation for JSR 356 & JSR 353) – see above!
– Suggestion to extend / improve the Java API – Thanks Hildeberto Mendonça for coming forward to contribute!
– Modernize Connector/MDB — Vote and comment – Thanks Richard Kolb for support such initiatives!
– CDI 1.1 applications you can work with – Thanks Luigi for the contribution!

@adoptopenjdk news feed

– Updates on latest changes and developments in the OpenJDK world that were discussed amongs members on twitter.
– Potential plans to deprecate SPARC V8 support in HotSpot!
– StringBuffer to StringBuilder again – discussions rekindled!

Upcoming events and meetings

Adopt-a-JSR online meeting – February 27
Further hackdays, discussion panels and events to be organised by LJC JUG members.
26-27 March 2013, Devoxx UK

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Read about the Adopt OpenJDK program at the the Adopt OpenJDK java.net project website.
Join the Adopt OpenJDK mailing list at the google group. Find out how to join a Google group or send an email to adopt-openjdk@googlegroups.com to subscribe to the mailing list.

Read about the Adopt-a-JSR program at the java.net project website.
Join the Adopt-a-JSR mailing list at the java.net mailing list. Send an email to members@adoptajsr.java.net to subscribe to the mailing list.

The OpenJDK and JSR topics get good coverage at FOSDEM 2013! JUG members participating!

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Its FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) time again, and this year we have very good coverage on the OpenJDK and JSR topics at FOSDEM 2013. A number of speakers and events are taking place throughout the two days covering various topics on Java.

Adopt-a-JSR and JSRs
The speakers and events for these topics will speak on the present state and the future of Java, technical topics like InvokeDynamics, Zero, and the Shark compiler. The new JSR for Hotspot/JVM that will affect the Android world i.e. Dalvik users! Below are a list of speakers and events covered under this topic.

Speakers

Events

Adopt OpenJDK / OpenJDK
The OpenJDK topic has got massive coverage with 17 speakers, speaking and holding events covering various topics. In summary the topics covered will be:

– Past and future of OpenJDK, new releases
– Q & A session on OpenJDK
– The OpenJDK journey and what has been learnt so far
– Porting OpenJDK to PowerPC/AIX, AArch64
– Running Nashorn and JavaJFX
– OpenJDK7u progress
– Highlight on OpenJDK Lambda
– Using Shark again

Below are a list of speakers and events covered under this topic.
Speakers

Events

Java gets its own space in the Free Java (Dev Room).

Members of the LJC JUG, CEJUG, Brussels JUG and other JUGs worldwide will be present at this event!

Follow the event on Twitter by following the below handles:
@fosdem
@adoptopenjdk
@adoptajsr

FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2013/

Read about the Adopt OpenJDK program at the the Adopt OpenJDK java.net project website.
Join the Adopt OpenJDK mailing list at the google group or send an email to adopt-openjdk@googlegroups.com to subscribe to the mailing list. Find out how to join a Google group.

Read about the Adopt-a-JSR program at the java.net project website.
Join the Adopt-a-JSR mailing list at the java.net mailing list. Send an email to members@adoptajsr.java.net to subscribe to the mailing list.

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