Past meeting
Java User Group Meetup
(5 ratings)
Meeting Description
Who
- This will be a talk from Java Champion, Stephen Colebourne and then afterwards members can retire to the nearby The Crown Tavern pub/restaurant for more in depth discussion dinner, food and drink.
Why
- Come along to Meet other Java developers, and listen to a discussion on one of the hottest topics in the Java community right now.
Organized by
- Barry Cranford (Specialist Java Recruiter)
Details
Please note that this is a talk organised by the Java Web Users Group, who have kindly invited all of our members to attend.
Subject: Closures in Java - Comparing the choices
Speakers: Stephen Colebourne, Sun Java Champion
Abstract:
'Closures' are one of the hottest topics in the Java community right
now. The debate is over whether some form of closures would be a
useful and worthwhile addition to the Java programming language in
version 7.
This talk will explain what a closure is and compare the three main
proposals - BGGA, FCM and CICE. After attending you will be able to
form your own opinions on whether Java should be changed, and which
proposal is the way to go.
Biography
* Java Champion
* Co-author, FCM closures
* Regular contributor to Java language change debate
* Conference speaker
* Co-spec lead, JSR-310, Date and Time API
* Project lead, Joda-Time
* Member, Apache Software Foundation
* http://jroller.com/sc...
References
* BGGA = Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling and Peter von der Ahé
Proposal http://www.javac.info...
Main Page http://www.javac.info...
* FCM = First Class Methods by Stephen Colebourne and Stefan Schulz
Proposal http://docs.google.co...
* CICE = Concise Instance Creation Expressions by Bob Lee, Doug
Lea and Josh Bloch
Proposal http://docs.google.co...
For more info
http://www.jroller.co...
For registration
http://skillsmatter.c...
Talk About This Meeting
Who Attended
It's estimated that 13 people attended.
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Sandro Mancuso
"The meeting was promoted by Skills Matter and I believe that the majority of the people there are not members of this meetup group. I was really keen to meet other members of the Java User Group but I could not identify them. There was no one there to "organise" or join the Java User Group together. There are two pubs around Skills Matter and I went to one of them but again, I could not recognise anyone. Besides that, the presentation about Java Closures was good. " -
abdul
"I am all for Closures in Java. I would like to see that FCM improve, if possible borrowing certain concepts from BGGA." -
Evans
"I totally enjoyed every minute of it. I thought the topic was great, the speaker knew the problem domain. And having to get first hand technical insight into what is probably going to be in the next version of the Java Programming Language, was a big plus."
SATISH KUMAR
"I know very little bit about closures, the meeting is very good and worth to attend this meeting"