Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Monday February 18, 2008

Coming in 2008: Tips and Tricks on Language Features

My bof proposal titled Tips and Tricks for Using Language Features in API Design and Implementation for a discussion on how to productively use generics, enums, and annotations was accepted for this year's JavaOne conference in the Java SE track. I'll be drawing on experiences creating and working with various JDK APIs, including JSR 269, and plan to talk on topics ranging from maintaining different kinds of compatibility, to subtleties of using interfaces versus abstract classes, to an analogy between the proper use of generics and the Mandelbrot set.