Simon Ritter - Preparing for JDK 9 with Zulu and OpenJDK
Channel: Voxxed Days Bristol
Date: 2016-03-28

Simon Ritter is the European CTO of Azul Systems. He has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.

Since joining Sun 1996 and the Oracle acquisition he has focused on developer outreach for the core Java platform, Java for client applications and embedded Java. Now at Azul he is helping people to understand Azul’s Java virtual machine technologies and products.

"JDK 9 is the next major release of the Java platform, which will include significant changes over earlier versions. Unlike JDK 8 where most changes were in the language and class libraries JDK 9 will bring big changes to the platform itself. The biggest of these is project Jigsaw that modularises Java making deployment more flexible. This session looks at the main changes in JDK 9 and uses the free binary distribution from Azul Systems, Zulu, to show how developers can take advantage of and prepare for them."