Perspectives from the 'Polis

This past Friday, I roamed around JavaPolis conference in Antwerp, Belgium with a microphone. I spoke with several people about the 'one thing they would like the world to know.' My goal was to give you a feel for the latest developments in the Java space and to gather new and interesting ideas about development for you to ponder.

In this third and final installment, I've collected several short audio clips for you to listen to. If something strikes a chord with you, whether harmonic or dissonant, we encourage you to post in the discussion forum.

Eric Evans, author of Domain Driven Design, speaks about when we should be applying the tool of domain-driven design. This interview actually took place on Thursday, December 14, 2006. (11:46)

Kirk Pepperdine, Java performance tuning specialist, talks about the one most important thing for developers to keep in mind about performance tuning. This interview actually took place on Thursday, December 14, 2006. (12:27)

Joe Walker, creator of DWR, Direct Web Remoting, talks about the new feature of Reverse AJAX in DWR. (18:07)

Charles Nutter, one of the core developers of JRuby at Sun, talks about mixed-language programming with JRuby. (14:35)

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian, talks about Bamboo, their new continuous integration server. (10:04)

Stephan Colbourne, creator of Joda Time, talks about the Joda Time project. (7:05)

Heather Vancura, Manager of the JCP Program Office at Sun, talks about JSR 306, which will define the next version of the JCP. (9:47)

Bruno Souza, NetBeans Community Manager at Sun, talks about what's new with NetBeans. (4:07)

Johan Peeters, independent consultant from Belgium, and Bill Venners discuss their impressions of the JavaPolis conference and the latest trends in the Java world. (31:05)

In this blooper segment, Bill Venners takes an iterative approach to introducing Heinz Kabutz for his interview, which was published in the first installment of this series. (3:04)

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About the author

Bill Venners is president of Artima Software, Inc. and editor-in-chief of Artima Developer. He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community's ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services. Bill also serves as an elected member of the Jini Community's initial Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), and in this role helped to define the governance process for the community.