Leading-Edge Java
Interviews from JavaPolis 2006: Day 1
Perspectives from the 'Polis
by Bill Venners
December 14, 2006
Summary
This article contains a collection of short, punchy audio recordings made at JavaPolis on Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Each recording captures one
person's notion of an idea that is important for developers to think about.
Today, I roamed around JavaPolis conference in Antwerp, Belgium with a microphone. I spoke with several people about the 'one thing they'd
like the world to know in five minutes or less,' and plan to continue the effort tomorrow and Friday. My goal is 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 first installment, I've collected several short audio clips, each six minutes or less, 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.
 | Brian Goetz, Java Evangelist at Sun author of
of Java Concurrency in Practice, discusses the most important things to
keep in mind about concurrency programming given the current trend towards of multi-core processors. (2:14)
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| Paul Fremantle, VP, Technology and
Partnerships, at WSO2 discusses why open source is like Irish music. (3:03)
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| James Ward, Technical Evangelist at
Adobe, describes Apollo, Adobe's new desktop runtime for Flex and Ajax applications. (2:38)
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| Philip van Dalen and Jonathon Stolk of
Backbase, discusses how XML is used in their AJAX library. (5:53)
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Share your opinion
Have an opinion about any of the ideas presented in these audio segments?
Discuss this article in the Articles Forum topic,
Interviews from JavaPolis: Day 1.
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.
