Speaker

Neal Gafter
SUN

Neal has been working in compilers since 1981. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1990. His main interests are compiler technology to support integrated programming environments, programming language design, and automated instruction selection.

He is currently developing and supporting Sun Microsystem's Java compiler and language tools (javac, javadoc, javah, javap). If you want to take a look at his baby, download Sun's prototype implementation of JSR14, Adding Generics to the Java Programming Language. It includes all of the language features slated to go into Tiger (1.5), with the notable exception of JSR 175 (metadata).

Neal plays in the Foresight Exchange, a long term game of predicting the future. He has implemented a Market Maker Robot for the game.

Picture: Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter

Presentation: "Forthcoming Java Programming Language Features"

Monday 15:15 - 16:10, Public Room

A number of significant language enhancements are in development for the next release of the Java Platform (J2SE Release 1.5, code-named "Tiger"). Enhancements include generics, autoboxing/unboxing, typesafe enums, enhanced for-loop, varargs, static import, and metadata. We describe the proposed changes and show how they work together to make the language safer and more expressive.

Forthcoming Java Programming Language Features - (slides)

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Presentation: "More Programming Puzzlers"

Wednesday 10:00 - 10:55, Conference Hall

Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter (AKA "Click and Hack, the Type-It Brothers") present ten more programming puzzles for your entertainment and enlightenment. The game show format keeps you on your toes while the puzzles teach you about the subtleties of the Java(tm) programming language and its core libraries. Anyone with a working knowledge of the language will be able to understand the puzzles, but even the most seasoned veterans will be challenged. The lessons you take from this session are directly applicable to your programs and designs. And some of the jokes may even be funny. This is an entirely different set of puzzles from last year's JavaOne Talk ("Programming Puzzlers"). If you hated "Programming Puzzlers," you'll detest "More Programming Puzzlers"! Overripe fruit will be provided to the first 50 attendees, so come early!

More Programming Puzzlers - (slides)

Please notice that the slides are password protected. You should have received an e-mail containing the required username and password.