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Dynamically Typed Languages for the JVM

Presented by Gilad Bracha on Mar 23, 2007

Community
Java
Topics
Dynamic Languages
Tags
Java SE ,
JVM ,
Groovy
Summary
Scripting languages are of growing importance, and they are typically dynamically typed. This session discusses improved support for these languages in the JVM, through the use of the new invokedynamic bytecode and through improved support for hot-swapping--modifying code and classes on the fly while maintaining the JVM software's security and integrity.

Bio
Gilad Bracha is a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence Design Systems. At the time of this recording, he was a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages.

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Gilad Bracha still at Sun? by Victor Volle Posted Mar 24, 2007 3:18 PM
Re: Gilad Bracha still at Sun? by Floyd Marinescu Posted Mar 26, 2007 8:47 AM
Dynamic Scripting BOF slides available by Frank Cohen Posted Mar 25, 2007 7:46 PM
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    Gilad Bracha still at Sun?

    Mar 24, 2007 3:18 PM by Victor Volle

    I thought that Gilad Bracha has moved on. See blogs.sun.com/gbracha/ and bracha.org/Site/Bio.html

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    Dynamic Scripting BOF slides available

    Mar 25, 2007 7:46 PM by Frank Cohen

    I gave two talks at The Server Side Java Symposium related to scripting and testing Web Services, SOA and XML on the Java platform:

    Dynamic Scripting on Java
    downloads.pushtotest.com/presentations/2007_TSS...

    XML Scalability and Performance
    downloads.pushtotest.com/presentations/2007_TSS...

    Feel free to ask questions at fcohen@pushtotest.com.

    -Frank
    www.pushtotest.com

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    Re: Gilad Bracha still at Sun?

    Mar 26, 2007 8:47 AM by Floyd Marinescu

    I thought that Gilad Bracha has moved on. See blogs.sun.com/gbracha/ and bracha.org/Site/Bio.html
    Thanks for the reminder. We updated his bio.

    Reply

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