30 Years of Java... The Journey Continues
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May 23, 1995 marks Java’s launch and the talk traces its roots from Project Green / Oak to Duke powering the Star 7 demo, then to OpenJDK (2006) which opens development and attracts community contributions. Concrete changes listed: Project Amber (less verbose language), JVM performance and security work, a six‑month release cadence with preview and early‑access builds (IntelliJ IDEA integrates EA and GraalVM), and deployments at scale — Uber, Netflix, LinkedIn — plus ~370 JUGs and ~1,000,000 certified developers.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:17Origins of Java
- 9:16Java on smart devices
- 12:48Java across industries
- 16:20OpenJDK birth
- 21:17Modern Java features
- 27:22Java in AI
- 29:27Six-month release cadence
- 34:03Shape Java's future
- 37:14Java Champions
- 42:59Java User Groups
- 45:47Java conferences
- 51:51New Java resources
- 53:38Lifetime contributors
- 56:51JetBrains support
- 58:16Closing remarks
