Sessions at OSCON Java 2011 in Oregon Ballroom 201/202

Monday 25th July 2011

• Welcome

  by Stephen Chin and Laurel Ruma

  Opening remarks by the OSCON Java program chairs, Laurel Ruma and Stephen Chin.

  • Welcome

  At 9:00am to 9:10am, Monday 25th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

• Open Source, Java, and Oracle – Cracking the Code

  by Steven G. Harris

  Mystified as to how Oracle’s decisions on open source fit together? Stop looking at your crystal ball and get insight into how Oracle views open source and the role Java plays in the developer community. Find out where Oracle sees Java heading and how you can navigate the best path as an open source Java developer and decision-maker to participate in moving Java forward.

  • Java
  • Open Source
  • Oracle

  At 9:10am to 9:30am, Monday 25th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

• Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM

  by Raffi Krikorian

  Keynote by Raffi Krikorian, developer, Twitter.

  • Java
  • Keynote
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Twitter

  At 9:30am to 9:45am, Monday 25th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

• Working Hard to Keep It Simple

  by Martin Odersky

  Today's world of parallel and distributed computing poses hard new challenges for software development. A rapidly increasing number of developers now have to deal with races, deadlocks, non-determinism, and we are ill-equipped to do so. How can we keep things simple, in spite of the complexity of the underlying runtimes?

  • Concurrency
  • Simplicity

  At 9:45am to 10:00am, Monday 25th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video slide deck

• JDK 7 in a Nutshell

  by Joseph Darcy

  Come hear a lively overview of the new features in JDK 7, including the language changes of Project Coin, the filesystem and other I/O features from NIO.2, and the new invokedyamic JVM instruction.

  • Java

  At 10:00am to 10:10am, Monday 25th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

Tuesday 26th July 2011

• Welcome

  by Stephen Chin and Laurel Ruma

  Opening remarks by the OSCON Java program chairs, Laurel Ruma and Stephen Chin.

  • Welcome

  At 9:00am to 9:10am, Tuesday 26th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

• Who Needs Standards

  by Patrick Curran

  In this keynote Patrick will discuss the history of standards, the role that they play in the modern world, and the way in which Java standards are developed through the JCP. He will explain how Java developers can get involved in the standards-developing process, and the benefits of doing so.

  • Java Community Process
  • Standards

  At 9:10am to 9:30am, Tuesday 26th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

• Java: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts

  by Joshua Bloch

  In my technical presentation, I'll be discussing all of the changes to the Java programming language since its inception. In this this keynote, I'll focus my attention on the starting point: I'll present my candidates for the best and worst features in the platform as it was originally released (JDK 1.0), and explain the reasoning behind my choices.

  • Java

  At 9:30am to 9:45am, Tuesday 26th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video

• On The Cusp Of A Java Renaissance: Where We've Been And Where We're Going

  by Bob Lee

  Keynote by Bob Lee, CTO, Square Inc.

  • Java

  At 9:45am to 10:00am, Tuesday 26th July

  In Oregon Ballroom 201/202, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage video