Is the Java Language a Productivity Dead End? Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, this session takes an objective look at where we go from here with the Java language, and what the future might hold (including other languages for productivity).Keep Java the same?http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html Change Java?Closureshttp://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2008/jw-06-closures.html Properties and Eventshttp://blogs.sun.com/joe/entry/java_properties_and_events Project Coinhttp://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/ Sid Dabster - User Friendlyhttp://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/sid/ Changes in Fortran and Cobolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortranhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol Enumerations and Iteratorshttp://www.coderanch.com/t/202139/Performance/java/Enumeration-vs-Iterator Java Puzzlershttp://www.javapuzzlers.com/ Builder patternhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern Domain Specific Languageshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_programming_language Does productivity in other languages scale to hundreds of developers?http://www.infoq.com/articles/Will-the-Enterprise-change-Rubyhttp://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/02/05/static-languages-rationalizations-and-myths/http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/dynamiclanguagesslowlytakeovertheworld JVM languages summithttp://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit Scalahttp://www.scala-lang.org/ Server Side JavaScripthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript Java FXhttp://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Client-side-and-Server-side-JavaScript/ Forthhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29 Lisphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language Ruby on Railshttp://rubyonrails.org/ Annotationshttp://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html Elvis operator - inline null checkhttp://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000047.html Groovyhttp://groovy.codehaus.org/ Grailshttp://grails.org/ Genericshttp://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html Java -source flaghttp://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html#options Reification in Genericshttp://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html Option types in Scalahttp://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html Higher order functionshttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-highfunc.html Java exceptions multiple catch proposalhttp://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-February/000003.html Checked exceptions vs Runtime exceptionshttp://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2006/11/effective-exceptions.html Findbugshttp://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ PHP and Zendhttp://www.zend.com/en/ Technical Debthttp://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx Python 3000http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/ 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/javapossePose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

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