This presentation was the intro video to the Virtual Technology Summit in September 2015. It gives an update about the Java releases and community updates.

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Java Community and Overview Track
Yolande Poirier
Senior Community Manager
Oracle Technology Network
September, 2015
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Agenda
• Community News
– New Duke Personality
– Oracle University Discount
– JavaOne
– Java Magazine
– New OTN Articles
• Releases
– Java EE 8
– Java SE 9 and Java SE 8
– Cloud Releases
– Cloud Developer Services
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COMMUNITY NEWS
New Duke Personality
Oracle University Discount
JavaOne
Java Magazine
OTN Articles

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New Duke Personality
• Duke, the Java Mascot
• What is Duke up to this year?
– Cloud Master
– Innovations this year are in the Cloud
– Duke in Zen-like command of all things cloud
– With Java and the cloud, Duke juggles application
development on social, mobile or any platform.
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Celebrating 20 Years of Innovation
• Oracle University offers a special discount
• 20% off any Java certification exam
• How to apply
– Find the Java exam that meets your skill level and experience.
– Review exam preparation and topics.
– Register at Pearson VUE. Use promotion code Java20 to
receive the 20% discount.
• Offer valid until December 2015
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JavaOne 2015: 20 Years of Innovation
• The premier Java conference - October 25 – 29, 2015
– Keynote about 20 years
• Online – oracle.com/javaone and #javaone
– Coverage on our blog: blogs.oracle.com/javaone
– Live interviews at NightHacking.com
– Cutting edge content, new tracks: Cloud Content catalog
– Check out the rock star speakers
• If you attend
– Opportunities to learn, share and solve (Sessions, BoF...)
– Network: Taylor Cafe, Java Hub, parties every night
– Schedule builder plan your activities
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Java Magazine
• July/August 2015 - All about DevOps
• Technical articles
– How Dev Vs Ops became DevOps, an interview
with Patrick Debois
– Continuous Delivery of Microservices at Netflix
– Building and Managing Lightweight Containers with Docker, Puppet and Vagrant
– Putting the continuous in Continous Delivery with Chef
– Functional Programming in Java: Using Collections
– Contexts and Dependency Injection: the New Java EE Toolbox
– Inside the CPU: the Unexpected Effects of Instruction Execution
• The magazine is free. Subscribe at oracle.com/javamagazine
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New OTN Articles
• Technical articles from top industry experts
• OTN is publishing new articles ongoing, some of the new articles:
– From Technical Debt to Software Development Analytics
– Effective Ways to Implement and Use the Singleton Design Pattern
– Lambda Tutorial: Shakespeare Plays Scrabble
– Writing JavaFX Applications for Mobile Devices
– Improving the Performance of Java EE Applications
– Develop Non-Blocking Web Applications in Java
• Contribute content to OTN
– Submit blogs and article abstracts at otnfeedback_us@oracle.com
– Guest blogger on blogs.oracle.com/java
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RELEASES
Java EE 8
Java SE 8 – 9
Cloud Services
Cloud Developer Services

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About Java EE 8
• Java EE 8 Release
– The release is expected Spring 2017
– News blog : blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/
• Java EE 8 – Current State
– Download & test builds and provide feedback
– JSRs: MVC 1.0, JSF, JSON, CDI 2, JMS, and Java EE Security JSRs
– JSRs are listed - jcp.org/en/jsr/
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About Java EE 8
• How to get involved
– Adopt-a-JSR - glassfish.java.net/adoptajsr/
• JUGs host meeting to test, contribute code to JSRs – Turkey JUG
– Increase expertise and your visibility as an expert
– Choose your level of involvement and how much you want to learn
• Blog about features or give talk
• Read the specification for a JSR
• Provide feedback
• Join a mailing
• Contribute to a spec
• Be spec lead
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Java SE 9
• Java SE 9 proposed schedule
– The release is expected in the fall of 2016
• Progress of Java 9 at openjdk.java.net
– Download and test the current build,
– news and announcements
• Java 9 introduce JShell, a REPL interpreter
– JShell code is not integrated in Java 9 current early access releases
– Instructions to test it today - https://youtu.be/caBTae7UyVw
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Java SE 9 - sun.misc.Unsafe
• sun.misc.Unsafe?
• Plan for its removal Mark Reinhold
– A roadmap for removing the API
– It will still be in Java 9
– Plan – http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260
• Replacement Solutions – Paul Sandoz
– Gives tips and tricks
– Project Valhalla, Project Panama, Arrays 2.0
– Foreign Function Interface
– Variable Handles
• Youtube.com/java
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Java SE 9 - sun.misc.Unsafe
• Mark Reinhold
– The Secret History and Tragic Fate of sun.misc.Unsafe
• Paul Sandoz
– Safety First
• Youtube.com/java
– Playlist: JVM Language Summit 2015
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JVM Language Summit 2015
• Annual Summit
– Gathering of language designers, compiler writers, tool builders, runtime engineers,
and VM architects
– Valuable content for developers who are writing code for the JVM
– 18 video presentations
• Some of the sessions are:
– Keynote: Martin Odersky - Compilers are databases
– Dan Heidinga - The Future is Native
– Mark Stoodley - Multi-Language Runtime
• Brian Goetz – Adventures on the road to Valhalla
– http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/
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Java SE 8 Release
• Java SE 8 update 60
– JavaScript Nashorn enhancements
– Deployment Rule Set improvements
– ARM support
– Release notes http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/
• Articles on Java 8
• - Community Platform - https://community.oracle.com/community/java
• JDK 8 MOOC
– Lessons are available on YouTube – 21 videos
– Playlist on YouTube.com/JDK8 MOOC
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Cloud Releases – Coming Soon
• Java SE in the Cloud
– Deploy Java SE applications to Oracle Cloud
– Access Java SE 7 and 8 runtimes and libraries &
application frameworks
– Cloud-based integrated development lifecycle tools
– Visit cloud.oracle.com/javase
• Node.js in the Cloud
– Deploy your Node.js applications to Oracle Cloud
– Support many Node.js release and libraries
– https://cloud.oracle.com/nodejs
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Cloud Releases
• Java Cloud Services
– Deploy any Java application
– Self-service provisioning of Oracle WebLogic Server and
Oracle Coherence
– Enterprise level security, high availability, and performance
for business-critical applications
– Open standards so that Java applications are easily
deployed and managed
– https://cloud.oracle.com/java
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Developer Cloud Service

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Developer Cloud Resources
• Community – (Discussions Forums, blogs, collaboration, more)
https://community.oracle.com/community/cloud_computing/platform-as-a-service-paas
• Documentation – http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/
• Social Media –
– Twitter - @oraclecloudev
– Blog - https://community.oracle.com/community/cloud_computing/platform-as-a-service-paas/blog
• Cloud Day events around the world at oracle.com/cloudday
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Program Agenda
• 10:00 am - 11:00 am: Connecting Devices to the Cloud, Healthcare for
the elderly using IoT with Gerrit Grunwald
• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm: JDK 8: Time for A New Date & Time with Simon
Ritter
• 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Cloud Enabled JavaScript Stored Procedures with
Java 8 Nashorn with Kuassi Mensah
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