Evolving the Java Language

Summary

Just as the Java language was extended in Java 5 to add generics, enumerations, and other features, a number of new language features are being developed for JDK7.

We examine the changes and their interactions, how they are conditioned by preexisting language design choices, and discuss how they influence the way APIs are designed.

• superpackages
• closures
• annotations on types
• type inference
• exception handling
• self types

Bio
Neal Gafter is a software engineer and Java evangelist at Google. Previously, at Sun Microsystems, he designed and implemented the Java language features in releases 1.4 through 5.0. and led the development of C and C++ compilers at Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.