Java 9 is going to provide several developer tools which complement the modular system and enhance developer productivity. This video gives an overview of new Java Linker tool that would assist in creating a modular Java runtime. “jlink” assembles and optimizes a set of modules and their dependencies and “jmod” …
The modularization of the Java SE platform in JDK 9 will bring many benefits but also many changes. Existing code that uses only official Java SE Platform APIs and supported JDK-specific APIs should continue to work without change.
This session provides a guide to the hidden gems of the JDK, knowledge usually reserved for tool authors. You will find that you don’t have to be a tool author to benefit from being able to do deeper inspection of your applications and gain greater control of threads in your …
Current JAX-WS deployments are tightly coupled with a container’s runtime. JAX-WS 2.2 proposed an HTTP SPI that enables a deployment to use any available Web services runtime for HTTP transport. Now that JAX-WS 2.2 is integrated into JDK 7, Java EE 6 Web profile vendors can support 109 deployments by …
This video explores the composition and growth of the OpenJDK community and the associated open source projects. We’ll take a look at who’s writing code for OpenJDK, who’s using it, and how successful the project has been in attracting a community of developers interested in contributing to and working with …
Are you ready for JDK 7? This video examines the code base of some existing open source projects and then assesses how they will be affected by JDK 7, especially the Project Coin enhancements. It then explores tools for refactoring the code and suggests principles and guidelines for this process.
