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Talk about Java 9 with Ivan Krylov on jug.msk.ru

The meeting with Ivan Krylov ( Azul Systems ) on December 15, 2016 was the final year on jug.msk.ru. The topic of conversation was the long awaited Java 9 .



About speaker


Ivan is currently an employee of Azul Systems . Before that he worked including. at Sun Microsystems and Oracle . For more than 10 years he has been developing Java virtual machines and compilers (in Azul Systems , the Zing virtual machine).

He often speaks at JUG.ru conferences as well as at international conferences. The reports of Ivan are interesting, the selected topics are well and easily presented (despite their technical complexity). Unobtrusive and always relevant information is provided on Azul Systems technologies. For example, the reports (see the full list below) about StructuredArray and ObjectLayout (something similar to Value Types ) and the Life cycle of the JIT code (it mentioned ReadyNow , video is available only to conference participants) are very good.
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Reports:


Articles:


Audio with Ivan:


Other links: files of all presentations , GitHub , Twitter .

About the report


The story on jug.msk.ru is the most recent and most complete (extended to 2.5-3 hours) version of this report, since its usual duration is about an hour. Thus, the listeners had a rare opportunity to join carefully collected and grouped information in the interpretation of one of the most qualified specialists in this field.

Additional materials on this topic that may be of interest:


Opening meeting Andrei Kogun.



The first part of the report was devoted to the modularity of the Jigsaw project, which is the main goal of Java 9 . In addition to presenting the topic of modularity in the presentation, Ivan wrote good examples that are available on GitHub .



In the second part, other innovations in Java 9 were mentioned and demonstrated. Only some of them (full listing and more details see the presentation and video):




According to Ivan’s advice, before the report (“it’s better to study original materials”) it’s suggested that we don’t limit ourselves to reading this review. The presentation file and the source code of the examples are already available (with detailed instructions on their use and a request to let you know if problems arise ). Video and photos from the meeting will soon appear here and here .

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/317806/


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