Alex Miller

Gateway Software Symposium

St. Louis · March 6 - 8, 2009

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Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.

Alex Miller is a Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc, the makers of the open-source Java clustering product Terracotta. Prior to Terracotta, Alex worked at BEA Systems on the AquaLogic product line and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, query languages, and software design. Alex enjoys writing his blog at http://tech.puredanger.com and has spoken at a number of Java user group meetings and conferences.

In St. Louis, Alex is responsible for founding the Lambda Lounge, a user group for the study of functional and dynamic languages.

Presentations

Java 7 Preview

Possible library and language changes for Java 7 have been in discussion since early 2007 and many things have been proposed. This talk will focus on those items that are most likely to be included and some of the more controversial language changes that might be included in a future release. For a comprehensive list of almost everything being considered, see http://tech.puredanger.com/java7.

Java Concurrency Idioms

This presentation will look at the many new additions in Java 5 and 6 for concurrent programming such as Atomics, Locks, synchronizers, and concurrent collections. In particular, we will be looking at common concurrency idioms around locking and access to shared state, thread coordination, thread pooling, and work execution. Each of these topics will be presented with code examples demonstrating common idioms and the usage of these new concurrency primitives.

Java Concurrency Gotchas

Concurrency is hard. Java has a rich set of concurrency primitives but its still possible to shoot yourself in the foot. In fact, concurrency makes it substantially more likely that you'll shoot both your feet and possibly the guy next to you. This talk will cover some common concurrency gotchas in Java, how to detect them, and how to fix them.