Presentation: "Keynote - Effective Java - Still Effective After All These Years"

Time: Tuesday 09:00 - 10:00

Location: To be announced

Abstract: Effective Java was first released in 2001 and quickly became the standard guide to best practices for the Java programming languages and its core libraries. The second edition was released last year, and it is chock full of new material covering features added in Java 5 and 6. New topics include generics, enums, annotations, autoboxing, and the like. This talk covers some of this new material, and a few things that did not make it into the second edition.

Author Java Puzzlers Joshua Bloch, Google

Author Java Puzzlers Joshua Bloch Joshua Bloch is Chief Java Architect at Google, author of the bestselling, Jolt Award-winning "Effective Java" (Addison-Wesley, 2001; Second Edition, 2008), and coauthor of "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases" (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and "Java Conurrency in Practice" (Addison-Wesley, 2006). He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features including the Java Collections Framework and JDK 5.0 language enhancements. He holds a Ph.D. from CMU and a B.S. from Columbia.

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