The upcoming version of Java (Java 9) is in the tech press headlines at the moment, as the flagship feature has caused unprecedented controversy within the Java Community Process (the body that approves new Java standards).

In this talk, Ben Evans (JCP Executive Committee member & Java Champion) will explain what the fuss is all about, how Java 9 compares to previous versions and explore some of the long-term roadmap for Java as well as how previous versions have evolved to lead us to this point, and discuss what it all means for the working Java programmer and the future of the ecosystem."

The talk will take place in the Clayton Hotel, 22 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast at 6.30pm

Speaker - Ben Evans Bio:
Ben Evans is an author, speaker, consultant and educator. His career highlights to date include: Co-founding jClarity, a performance startup, Chief Architect for Listed Derivatives at DB, performance testing the Google IPO, building award-winning websites for some of Hollywood's biggest hits of the 90s, building multibillion dollar low-latency trading systems and designing technology to help some of the UK’s most vulnerable people.

Ben is a Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar Speaker award and a Java Editor at InfoQ. He represents the user community as a voting member on the Java Community Process Executive Committee.

Ben is author of “The Well-Grounded Java Developer”, “Java: The Legend”, the new edition of “Java in a Nutshell” and the forthcoming "Optimizing Java". He is a regular speaker and educator on topics such as the Java platform, systems architecture, security, performance and concurrency at companies and conferences all over the world. Ben presents his newly launched Optimising Java course in Ireland (Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Galway) for GuruTeam which can be viewed on this link: http://www.guruteamirl.com/optimising-java-gtj47/

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