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.com Recorded 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 Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse 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 Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall