Report from the JVM Language Summit

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We bring you a situation report recorded from the JVM language summit, including some special guests and special announcements. We were in a bit of a noisy room so please forgive any unavoidable background noise, and yes, someone did have a phone on, and it's very chatty.

• Boffins
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin
  

• Joined by:
• Charles Oliver Nutter: http://blog.headius.com/ 
• Neal Gafter: http://gafter.blogspot.com/ 
• Bill Pugh: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/
  
• Christian Kemper:
  http://www.javapolis.com/confluence/display/JP04/Christian+Kemper
  

• Neal Gafter to Microsoft!
• http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/09/26/
  neal_gafter_to_join_microsoft.html
  

• Java Puzzlers
• http://www.javapuzzlers.com/
  

• Big winners: 
• InvokeDynamic:
  http://blog.headius.com/2008/09/first-taste-of-invokedynamic.html
  
• Tail calls/tail recursion:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_recursion
  
• Interface injection:
  http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/interface_injection_in_the_vm
  
• Multiple-dispatch:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch
  
• Value-types:
  http://benhutchison.wordpress.com/2008/06/
  15/the-jvm-needs-value-types/
  
• Tuples:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple
  

• Other notable requests:
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/subprojects.html
  
• Lightweight method handles and bytecode loading
• Continuations/stack introspection
• Intermediate wrapper types
• Symbolic freedom (non-java names)
• Better performance

• Maxine VM
• https://maxine.dev.java.net/
  

• Other related information:
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=176597 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_platform#Platform
  

• Slides from the JVM Language Summit (click through to the talks in the agenda)
  
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/agenda.html
  

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
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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• GetJar
• http://www.getjar.com
• Android
• http://www.android.com 
• Simon Brown on JavaFX
• http://www.simongbrown.com/blog/2008/09/02/
  javafx_why_how_and_when_will_it_be_successful.html

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
  • 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
  • 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

Newscast for Sept 17th 2008

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• Java complexity again, but from a different angle:
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
  messageID=298125&tstart=0#298125
  

• JVM Language summit - the details emerge
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
  jvmlangsummit/agenda.html

Roundup 08 - Start-ups and Funding

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• Venture Capital
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital 
• Top 100 VC companies of 2007
• http://www.entrepreneur.com/vc100 
• Angel Investors
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investors 
• Craigslist
• http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
  
• Guy Kawasaki on VC
• http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/11/the_venture_cap.html
• Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series
• http://etl.stanford.edu/
  
• Funding Universe
• http://www.fundinguniverse.com/
  

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
  • 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
  • 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

Newscast for Sept 4th 2008

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• Google has released a new Browser, Google Chrome
• http://www.google.com/chrome
  
• http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/#
  
• http://dev.chromium.org/
• http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=
  08/09/01/162224&from=rss 
• http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/
  answer.py?answer=95282&topic=14683
• http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/
  09/mozilla-firefox-strikes-back-a.html
• http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/09/03/
  google-chrome-brought-to-you-in-part-by-a-camino-dev
• http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkerton/archives/019560.html

• InvokeDynamic - it's ALIVE!
• http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/
  international_invokedynamic_day 
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
  

• Java Project of the Week - SocialSite
• https://socialsite.dev.java.net/
  

• Java App of the Week - JavE - the Java ASCII Versatile Editor
  
• http://www.jave.de/
  

• Java App of the Week Bonus - Wordle
• http://wordle.net/
  

Quick News

• OpenJDK 7 makes a comeback on the Mac
• http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/
  SoyLatte_Meets_OpenJDK.20080819.html
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
  archives/2008/08/time_wont_wait.html
  

• There are two noteworthy Eclipse conferences coming up this fall in the US
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-conference-season
  

• The Apache Commons project has released Apache Commons BeanUtils version 1.8.0
• http://commons.apache.org/beanutils/
  

• Inovaworks, a Portuguese startup, has announced jaiPhon
• http://www.jaiphon.com/ 
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=50503
  

• Apple has also been hit with a lawsuit in the U.K.
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/
  archive/2008/08/get_real_apple.html
  

• JBoss Cache 2.2.0 - codenamed "Poblano" - has been released with General Availability
  
• http://jbosscache.blogspot.com/2008/08/
  poblano-goes-ga.html
  

• The apache project has release version 2.0.2 of Apache Lenya
• http://lenya.apache.org/
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=50504
  

• InfoQ has a short interview with Dmitry Jeremov of JetBrains about the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 8.0
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/08/intellij_8_M1
  

• GWT 1.5 final is now out
• http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2008/
  08/gwt-15-now-available.html
  

• Sun has announced the Sun Tech Days 2008/2009 starting with an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil in September
• http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/