Yesterday (Sunday) the java one started with a very nice introduction/keynote. It’s topics was mainly the newly introduced Java EE 7 and a perspective for Java 8 (and a few on Java 9).
To sum it up in short here a my most interesting points on this keynote:
* Freely available Java EE Webprofile appliction server from IBM available
* packaged hashmaps can reduce heap size usage and improve speed, realy check this out if you’re working with big data
* Lambda will be introduced by the available rc of java se 8. It’s now available.
* Netbeans has build in support for java scripting (incl. debugging) especially for the following frameworks: angular.js,
knockout.js, jquery
Funny, while demonstating Netbeans crashed. 🙂 Everybody knows, than can happen.
* The newly introduced websockets in java ee 7 are very impressive I hope I will find the time to develop some on my own.
* JSON support was added by Java EE 7
* jAVA ME 8 is available for testing and should be a real performance boost (works even on raspberry pi fluently)
* Java 9 will use GPUs