feedThe Inventor of the Dukelele
Pictures
of a must-have
novelty have been popping up all over Java-related web sites recently,
including on James
Gosling’s blog. Duke briefly
introduces the inventor, Kazuhiro
Kazama, and mentions Kazama-san’s activities
around Project Looking Glass. But what Duke forgets to tell us is that
he and Kazama-san have been friends for a long time. Kazama-san has helped
Duke on two expert groups, JSR
51 (New I/O APIs) and JSR
204 (Supplementary Character Support). He has translated and improved
the one and only Java
Internationalization book into Japanese.
He’s a driver of Ja-Jakarta,
the Japanese group of users and developers of Tomcat
and related technologies. And he’s always ready to provide Duke and
his helpers with advice, in particular on the needs of Japanese developers.
Here he is, discussing servlet character encoding issues with Servlet
specification lead Yutaka Yoshida at the Java Technology Conference in
Tokyo, February 2004.
