Java Posse: Java Posse #208 - Report from JVM Languages Summit

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
  

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• 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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