| Inside Java July 2025 |
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| JavaOne & the JVM Language Summit! |
In this issue we highlight many new sessions from JavaOne 2025, the upcoming JVM Language Summit, community events, developer profiles, and our continuing work with the education community to bring Java to more students via Learn.java.
It’s been a busy summer! |
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| 2025 JVM Language Summit |
| Santa Clara, California, August 4-6 |
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The JVM Language Summit is a rare convergence of deep expertise, forward-looking innovation, and collaborative spirit. If helping evolve the JVM, exploring language design, and forging cross-ecosystem connections resonates with you, this Summit is where the magic happens. Whether you’re implementing a language, enhancing the JVM, or building tools, this is the place to expand your horizons and leave a mark on the platform’s future. We’re looking forward to you joining us at the 2025 JVM Language Summit!
2025 JVM Language Summit - Where Languages Meet the Virtual Machine
Sharat Chander, Senior Director, Java Product Management & Community Engagement
COMING SOON: We’ll be publishing some of the session content from this year’s JVMLS in future issues of the newsletter. |
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| Learn.java Continues to Grow |
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| Crystal Sheldon and Heather Stephens from the Java Developer Relations team continue to build out the content on the new Learn.java website that the team recently built and announced at JavaOne. Learn.java is beginning to share personal stories from teachers, students, and professionals. |
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In this video, we hear from Sandy Czjaka, a long time AP Computer Science teacher from Riverside Brookfield HS about the importance of teaching Java. There will be more teacher testimonials in the coming months.
Also, here are two related events from the education team on Java Developer Relations:
Computer Science Teacher of America (CSTA) Conference, July 2025
Crystal Sheldon and Heather Stephens attended this year’s CSTA conference in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference brought K-12 and post-secondary educators together to share best practices and resources, and to discuss important issues like the role of AI, diversity, and inclusion in computer science. Crystal presented a workshop where participants chose a mini-lab that incorporated newer Java features. Participants were supported in completing the lab by working in groups and using the tutorials found on the Learn.java website. A list of mini-labs can be found on Learn.java.
AP Annual Conference, July 2025
Crystal Sheldon attended the AP Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. The AP program provides students the opportunity to earn college credit by taking courses and exams in 40 courses. There are two AP Computer Science courses available to students, and the AP Computer Science A course is offered in Java. Crystal presented two sessions at the conference. One on the value of AP Computer Science courses for students and one on innovative Java labs. |
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| The Latest from Inside Java |
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| The Inside.java website aggregates technical content from engineers in the Java Platform Group and also developer advocates from Java Developer Relations. We have articles, videos, podcasts, and more. Here's a sample of the latest bits on the site. |
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Stack Overflow Podcast Celebrating 30 Years of Java
Georges Saab, SVP of the Java Platform Group and Chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board
A Sneak Peek at the Stable Values API
Per-Ake Minborg, Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Java Security Evolution — Out with the Old, In with the New
Sean Mullan, Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Java Gets a JSON API - Inside Java Newscast #95
Nicolai Parlog, Java Developer Relations
Java 25 is ALSO no LTS Version - Inside Java Newscast #94
Nicolai Parlog, Java Developer Relations
Java 25 Encodes PEM - Inside Java Newscast #93
Nicolai Parlog, Java Developer Relations
Java GPGPU Enablement: Are We There Yet?
Gary Frost, Software Architect
ZGC - Paving the GC On-Ramp
Erik Osterlund, Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Simplifying Java Runtime Setup in OCI Cloud Shell with the Java Download Toolkit
Sanju Nair, Principal Product Manager
Marshalling: Data-Oriented Serialization
Viktor Klang, Software Architect
Best of Java Feature Face-Off - Celebrating 30 Years of Java: The Programming Language That Changed the World
Sharat Chander, Senior Director, Java Product Management & Community Engagement
Inside Java’s Language Renaissance
Chad Arimura, VP, Java Developer Relations
Project Leyden's AOT - Shifting Java Startup into High Gear
Dan Heidinga, Software Architect
Getting the Most of Your Java Applications - The Value of Java for Enterprises
Aurelio García-Ribeyro, Senior Director, Product Management |
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Duke's Corner explores the Java community and the technology with interesting developer profiles every month.
Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations hosts the show and below are some of the latest episodes: |
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Nate Schutta: I Just Love to Learn!
Conversation with Nate Schutta, an author, a teacher, a software architect, and Java Champion. Nate lives in the United States and teaches computer science to university students. He loves teaching and learning, and he specializes in exploring the big picture of complicated systems in his career as a software architect. The episode covers the Java community, contributing to Java User Groups, and the engineering feat that is the Java Virtual Machine.
Francisco Contreras: I Felt Like I Could do Anything!
Conversation with Francisco Contreras, who is a Java developer and a co-organizer at Nicaragua JUG. Francisco has been a Java developer for 15 years and he runs his own consulting business with customers around the world. He's passionate about the technology and the community.
Here’s the archive of all the audio episodes of Duke’s Corner since 2022, and you can now start viewing some video shorts as well. Many more will come. Also, in the coming months we’re going to start profiling community members who have been recognized by Sharat Chander from Oracle Java Developer Relations for their Java Community Lifetime Achievement. Stay tuned! |
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| The Inside Java Podcast is a show for Java developers brought to you directly by the people that make Java at Oracle. We discuss the language, the JVM, OpenJDK, platform security, innovation projects like Loom and Panama, and everything in between! |
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Integrity by Default with Ron Pressler
Nicolai Parlog from Java Developer Relations talks to Ron Pressler, who is Java Architect at Oracle and, among other things, lead of Project Loom. The conversation covers the Java runtime that offers a host of guarantees like memory safety, type safety, encapsulation, and more. What makes these aspirations actual guarantees is a property called integrity. But there are a few mechanisms in Java that allow undermining integrity — some for good, some for less good reasons. Integrity by default states that all such operations need to be disabled by default. |
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| Around the Java Community |
| Out on the Road Around the World |
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| In this section we highlight some activities from our team out on the road, and also important conferences, Java User Groups (JUGs), and anything from the community that needs some recognition. Obviously, there's too much going on to post here but we try to offer a quick snapshot. |
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New Java User Groups
A JUG for Everyone: London
Joinville JUG: Brazil
Indianapolis JUG: USA
Duisburg JUG: Germany
Nagpur JUG: India
Upcoming Community Events
JVM Language Summit: Santa Clara, USA, August 4
JCrete Unconference: Crete, Greece, August 4
Kansas City Developer Conference: KC, Missouri USA, August 13
JavaZone: Oslo, Norway, September
Jalapeno by JConfMexico: Puerto Morelos, Mexico, September 13
Java at Oracle CloudWorld: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 13
Recent Java Books
Java How to Program: Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel
Java for Programmers: Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel
Cruising Along with Java: Venkat Subramaniam
JavaOne Shorts & Sessions
How long have you been using Java? The first in a series of shorts with the community at JavaOne.
JavaOne 2025 Sessions on YouTube. Dozens of full-length sessions from JavaOne.
Java DevRel Sessions
Ana Maria Mihalceanu from Java Developer Relations presented a session (Empower Inclusion Through Accessible Java Applications) at The Barcelona Developers Conference 2025.
Bangalore Java User Group
The Java Platform Group’s India Development Center (IDC) team sponsored and participated in an all-day Bangalore Java User Group event. The IDC engineers in Bangalore regularly host, sponsor, and deliver technical sessions with the community in India.
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| Java in Las Vegas! |
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The Java engineering team will be at CloudWorld again this year with 10 technical sessions and a booth.
Right now, attendees can save $400 on individual pricing or save $600 per person with the special group rate. |
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| The Java Developer Relations Team |
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Ana-Maria Mihalceanu
Billy Korando
Chad Arimura
Crystal Sheldon
David Delabassée
Denis Makogon
Erin Dawson
Heather Stephens
Jim Grisanzio
José Paumard
Melissa Jacobus
Nicolai Parlog
Sharat Chander |
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