Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Friday February 13, 2009

FOSDEM 2009: OpenJDK 6 and Project Coin

I was pleased to attend and speak at my first FOSDEM conference this year. The classroom setting of the Free Java Developer Room was certainly different than the cavernous session halls of JavaOne! My talks were on OpenJDK 6 and Project Coin:

• OpenJDK 6: Where are we now? Where are we going?

• Project Coin: Small Language Changes for JDK 7

Mark spoke on modularity and overall plans for JDK 7 and Alex spoke on progress towards a universal VM.

Another enjoyable aspect of FOSDEM for me was meeting in person a number of people I'd corresponded with over email who had contributed to OpenJDK 6, including Karl Helgason of Gervill fame and Andrew Haley and other IcedTea engineers from Red Hat.