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Simon Maple is a Technical Evangelist at ZeroTurnaround and founder of the vJUG (virtualJUG), in addition to being an active member of the London Java Community (LJC) organising group and LJC JCP EC committee member. All of his community efforts culminated in him being awarded Java Champion status in 2014. Simon used to be a tester, developer and technical evangelist for IBM on the WebSphere Application Server for 12 years prior to joining ZeroTurnaround.

21.08.2014

The Adventurous Developers Guide to JVM languages

A hands-on session covering our experience

LOCATION: Luzern
KEYWORDS: Concept, Tools, Technology, Hands-On

AGENDA:17:15 - 18:30h: Talk incl. Q/A
Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

SPEAKER: Simon Maple   COMPANY: ZeroTurnaround

Today there are over 50 actively worked JVM languages in existence today. Some have been ported to the JVM while others have been written specifically for the JVM. This hands on session with take an introductory (but non hello, world) look at a number of JVM languages including, Java 8, Scala, Groovy, Kotlin, Ceylon, Xtend and Clojure as well as the tooling support, discussing how and why they came about along with the evolution of the languages and distinguish the innovative languages versus those which consolidate existing features from other languages. We'll cover our initial experiences including what rocked and sucked learning each one with example code snippets of a sample HTTP Server from each language.

After the presentation, a brief JRebel demo will be given.

LEVEL OF TALK: Beginner
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en


Simon Maple is a Technical Evangelist at ZeroTurnaround and founder of the vJUG (virtualJUG), in addition to being an active member of the London Java Community (LJC) organising group and LJC JCP EC committee member. All of his community efforts culminated in him being awarded Java Champion status in 2014. Simon used to be a tester, developer and technical evangelist for IBM on the WebSphere Application Server for 12 years prior to joining ZeroTurnaround.


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