Sharat Chander
summary
Java celebrates 25 years and Oracle outlines concrete stewardship: OpenJDK is the open development home, Oracle OpenJDK ships under GPLv2 with classpath exception while Oracle JDK is commercial, developer tools include jdeps, jlink and the jdepper scan to find deprecated APIs, the project moves its mainline to GitHub and runs a six‑month cadence that produced six releases and 72 JEPs since 2018, early‑access builds and jdk.java.net enable testing, and community channels include inside.java, a podcast and free Oracle Explorer learning modules.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Welcome and conference thanks
- 1:08Java’s 25 years and future
- 8:2725 reasons for Java’s future
- 9:11Preserving Java’s core virtues
- 11:38OpenJDK innovation hub
- 13:01Developer’s guide to OpenJDK
- 14:25Participation in Java’s evolution
- 15:47Oracle JDK vs OpenJDK
- 17:14Java tools and IDEs
- 20:22Experimental and preview features
- 23:12Large-scale Java projects
- 24:57Six-month Java release cycle
- 27:04Early access releases
- 28:30Modern hardware support
- 29:12Libraries and frameworks
- 30:35Java infrastructure on GitHub
- 31:17Community and industry participation
- 33:00Java on social media
- 34:02Java user groups worldwide
- 36:30Inside Java knowledge hub
- 37:32Inside Java podcast
- 38:55Oracle Explorer certification program
- 40:01Java on YouTube
- 40:45Oracle Academy curriculum
- 41:46Java newsletters
- 43:11Community’s role in Java’s future
- 44:17Closing and call to action
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