OSCON Java 2011: Josh Bloch, "Java: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts"

In my technical presentation ("The Evolution of Java: Past, Present, and Future"), I'll be discussing all of the changes to the Java programming language since its inception. In this this keynote, I'll focus my attention on the starting point: I'll present my candidates for the best and worst features in the platform as it was originally released (JDK 1.0), and explain the reasoning behind my choices. Some of my choices may be obvious, but others will likely surprise you. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

Josh Bloch

Google

Joshua Bloch is a software architect in the Open Source Program Office at Google, author of the bestselling, Jolt Award-winning "Effective Java" (Addison-Wesley, 2001; Second Edition, 2008), and coauthor of "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases" (Addison-Wesley, 2005) and "Java Conurrency in Practice" (Addison-Wesley, 2006). He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features including the Java Collections Framework and JDK 5.0 language enhancements. He holds a Ph.D. from CMU and a B.S. from Columbia.

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[Dan Howard]

Is there a way to get the longer talks? I'd pay for them.

[sgdread]

Is there a link to longer talk, Josh mentioned?

[eddiekoski]

that byte thing is annoying as hell

[MrOboema]

"Java: the way you run your shellcode after you sql inject using ruby."

I'll be here all week. Try the veal!

[Dan Howard]

Thanks

[TheBRUM100]

Google "Java: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts" and it's the first link.

[Dan Howard]

thanks.

[Guohui Xiao]

Google "The Evolution of Java: Past, Present, and Future", then you will find it

[Wkterr]

I would like to add that the JVM is a big-endian system. Everyone knows that the correct endianess is little-endian.

[Jordan Bennett]

love to hear this guy talk. Here is some more inspiration from a java programmer of 3 months +:

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Made by me in 16hrs.

[Sergio Díaz Nila]

I say it, because i read it on a Sun Press book about Java 1.1 that they took the garbage collector idea from lisp. But i guess you don't know smalltalk, because if you do, you'll see that java is closer to Simula. Besides Alan Kay have said, when he come up with the term and idea of Object Oriented Programming he never imagined Java.

[alexgrinkov]

"garbage collector idea from Lisp" that's such an abstract idea every high-level language uses that it's not even worht mentioning. i was talking about the language itself, not the environment. i'f im not mistaken according to the spec Java can have any garbage collector as long as it doesn't modify execution of existing programs.