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April 4 - 5 , 2011

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Henrik Ståhl

Henrik StåhlHenrik is Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle and has worked in the industry for more than 20 years in various roles including support, network engineering, systems development, IT security, performance engineering and for the last six years with product strategy. After the Oracle acquisition of Sun, he runs a group responsible for product strategy for Java SE, JRockit, Exalogic and other Oracle products.

Track abstract - Room H1 - Java

JDK7

This session will look at a number of the new features in development in JDK 7 and how they affect developers. We'll take a close look at the current status of JDK 7 development, and learn how you can keep up to date, get your hands dirty with the code & provide useful feedback on planned features, while diving a bit deeper into a few planned improvements in the VM, the programming language and the class library.

Track abstract - Conversation Corner

Will the future of Java be decided by the community or by the corporation(s)?

A panel debate moderated by Emily Bache. Audience members are invited to submit questions to our panel of debaters. Each panel member has written a short position statement outlining their opinions (see below). We anticipate lively discussion.

Adam Bien
"By both" :-). Future of Java will be decided by Corporations guided by the experience and community feedback.

Henrik Ståhl
Developers want rapid progress, corporations are generally more conservative. Who should decide what new features are adoption into the Java Platform and on what grounds? What is an appropriate tradeoff between compatibility and innovation? Oracle believes that Java could not be successful without the support of both the corporations and the community. The challenge is to find an appropriate balance.

Martjin Verburg & Ben Evans
Oracle should be expanding the pie (more Java developers/users), but Oracle is perceived to have been involved in driving several vocal and influential Java based communities away. Unlike Oracle product groups, Java communities are fiercely independent and produce the sorts of products and frameworks that continue to prop Java up as one of the defacto languages to choose for any serious development. While we feel that Oracle have an immense amount to offer, the promise that they showed before the acquisition is not something that we think has been fully realised.  As passionate Java developers we feel that the platform has the full potential to be the unquestioned software platform for the the decades to come. We feel that Oracle has to realise that the eco-system consists of more than just them. We look for opportunities for both sides to learn from each other and are hopeful that the outcome will be beneficial to all.

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