Live Draft : Java Is Changing!
Joe Walker, Creator, DWR
Closures ( sytax sugar )
{int,int => string} c;
{string => } stringUser={
string m =>
System.out.println(m)
}
Closures are usefull for extending the language (FP)
JVM is changing : Special Dynamic Bytecode
Sun Now suppoert 3 languages:
Java,Ruby,JavaScript
The JVM in 2007
- Clustered objects
- Define any object to be clustered from a hashMap to a string Bean
- Innocating use of AOP to keep separate JVM’s in sync
The Libraries are changing:
- JPA replacing Entity Beans
- Seam joins JPA to Jsf
- Ajax
- DWR
- GWT
- Swing starting to look nice
- Virtually all the libraries are open source
Chalanges to Sun
- SCA
- Eclipse / OSGi / SWT
- Adope:Flex / Apollo






So what about DWR, then? He did not talk about it?
Comment by Eric — March 16, 2007 @ 9:01 am
I was there as a trackhost, not as a DWR-salesman, so no, not really. I think I spent about 2 secs on it out of 30 mins.
Comment by Joe Walker — March 16, 2007 @ 3:15 pm