Category: <span>General</span>

James Gosling’s Keynote at Jazoon 2009 “Java: Where We’re Heading”

Gosling’s keynote surveyed important and interesting technologies in the pipeline including Glassfish v3, which can scale down as well as up and where “EJB is easy”; real time support, where you have more choices in the tradeoff between “Throughput vs Determinism”; new garbage collection options; gains in performance; compressed pointers, …