Session Abstracts

19:00 - Modern Java: Change is the Only Constant / Mark Reinhold

"In the past year, we changed Java in three ways that we never have before: We modularized the platform, we removed some components, and we accelerated the pace of new releases. These changes aim to keep Java vibrant in an ever-changing world of competing platforms and new styles of application deployment, whether to the cloud or to app stores. They are disruptive, but they’re not as scary as you may think, and many developers have already adjusted to them."

More about Mark

Mark Reinhold is Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, service loaders, and the Jigsaw module system. Mark has held key leadership roles in every Java SE and JDK release since version 1.2, in 1998. He currently leads the JDK Project in the OpenJDK Community, where he also serves on the Governing Board. Mark holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Follow Mark on Twitter at @mreinhold

20:15 - Java Language Futures / Brian Goetz

Since last year, we've seen two more major versions of the JDK! What's changed in the last year, and what's coming down the road?

Join Java Language Architect Brian Goetz in a whirlwind tour of just some of the features coming to Java next.

About Brian

Brian is the Java Language Architect at Oracle, and was specification lead for JSR 335 (Lambda Expressions for the Java Language.) He is the author of the best-selling book "Java Concurrency in Practice" and is a frequent presenter at major industry conferences.

Follow Brian on Twitter @BrianGoetz

21:00 - Ask the Java Architects / Brian Goetz / Mark Reinhold

As one of the most pervasive technologies of our lifetime, Java continues to innovate the application world around us. Through continued modernization Java offers developers a contemporary language and platform to create the next generation of rich, scalable, and secure enterprise applications. And as the technology landscape changes around us, often at an ever-increasing pace, Java is primed to offer developers continued uniqueness to address new opportunities.

In this open Q&A session, come ask about why Java is the way it is, or where it is going? Bring your favourite questions about the Java Platform and the Java Development Kit — past, present, or future — to Brian and Mark, key architects from Oracle's Java team.

About the Oracle Dublin Java User Group

The Oracle Dublin Java User Group, aka DubJUG, is Ireland's oldest JUG serving Java developers in Ireland. Since 2006, the Group has been bringing Java Champions, Java One Rock Stars, and Duke Award winners to Dublin for the benefit of our community of Java software professionals. Oracle is the current Headline Partner.

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The Dublin Java User Group - Sponsor Messages

By partnering with the Dublin Java User Group, organisations are really saying 'we care about the technology we use' and 'we care that our developers are encouraged to get continual education in the Java world.'

Our headline partner, Oracle is committed to offering choice, flexibility and a lower cost of computing for customers, and demonstrate this commitment by investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting a wide variety of open source technologies.

For further details on some of the open source technologies in Oracle Cloud please visit developer.oracle.com/opensource

Oracle Cloud is the industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud. It offers best-in-class services across software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and even lets you put Oracle Cloud in your own data centre. Oracle Cloud helps organisations drive innovation and business transformation by increasing business agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity.

Website: Oracle / Twitter: Oracle_UKI

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Version 1 is a trusted technology partner to major domestic and international customers across all industry sectors in the UK and Ireland. Their Java practice has grown to over 120 people over the last few years, and continues to grow. Many of their Java customers use a significant amount of open-source tools and technologies, and therefore Version 1 work with the community to hear other Java success stories, learn more about people’s experiences, and bring in Java experts and champions to get the latest on what’s going on in that space.”

Website: Version1.com / Twitter: Version1Tweets

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Stackand.Co enrich the professional lives of Java / Scala software professionals - with over 20 years experience in the Irish ICT market, they have helped many great people elevate their careers.

Perhaps they can do the same for you working with companies like this one?

Website: Stackand.Co / Twitter: StackanddotCo

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Equifax Technology Ireland is the Research and Development arm of global credit scoring organisation Equifax - it has recently opened a technology centre in the Bloodstone Building, Dublin 2.

Now looking for developers!

Website: Equifax.com / Twitter: Equifax

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GuruTeam delivers high end ICT learning, mentoring and consultancy services, in Ireland, the UK and worldwide. Their expert instructors formulate bespoke training to suit their clients and can deliver programmes on or offsite.

New courses for 2018 include Blockchain with Ethereum / Corda (presented by Ben Evans), Machine Learning for Java and Python developers, IoT, GDPR, Hands-on Web Security for Java Developers as well as Modern Security with Ben Evans, Angular 5 and more

Website: GuruTeamIrl.com / Twitter: GuruTeamIreland

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Sonorplex add the edge to event attendance with their innovative 'Mark and Review' video platform. Download the Sonorplex app on your smartphone, attend DubJUG, and click points of interest in realtime. Your own personal 'marked' copy will be available for reviewing within hours, allowing you to relive the presentations again and again!

Website: Sonorplex.com / Twitter: Sonorplex

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Website: tcubedublin.com / Twitter: tcubeDublin

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