Java User Group Sibiu - The Future of the Java Platform: Java SE 8 & Beyond

One of our objectives is to get informed, to stay up to date with technologies, to get answers for complex questions, to receive quality details from quality speakers. For the 9'th event of Sibiu Java User Group we had the opportunity to follow a prestigious speaker, Simon Ritter - Technology Evangelist at Oracle Corporation.  The event was organized at Golden Tulip Ana Tower Sibiu, Wednesday 20'th of June, 2012.

Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.
Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon moved to Sun in 1996. At this time he started working with Java technology and has spent time working both in Java technology development and consultancy. Having moved to Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition he now focuses on the core Java platform and Java for client applications. He also continues to develop demonstrations that push the boundaries of Java for applications like gestural interfaces.

In this event Simon recapped recent developments in Java SE 7 and the Java Community Process and continued by moving onto the current ideas for features in Java SE 8 and about the main themes for Java SE 9 and beyond. On the last part of the presentation Simon concluded with a look at some of the features that are being considered for inclusion in versions of Java as far forward as Java SE 12. Everybody was interested in the subjects and <<coffee-break >> discussions together with the Q&A session were meant to clarify the questions from the participants. The received feedback is positive and everybody is looking forward for next events.


I want to notice an important aspect here also, starting with this event our group added a new partner to the list of the existing ones. EBS joined Sibiu JUG and we are happy to add one more prestigious company to our partners group.


In the end I would like to thank all our partners and sponsors (Oracle, Pentalog, EBS, PeopleCentric, JRebel, IntelliJ IDEA, ULBS) for all their support and implication in our group activities. I also would like to thank Simon Ritter for his presence here and we are looking forward for a future collaboration. Last (but not least), I would like to thank to all attendees and to remember our motto to everybody: "RESEARCH, SHARE, EVOLVE"