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Inside Java is a podcast for Java Developers brought to you directly from the people that make Java at Oracle. We'll discuss the language, the JVM, OpenJDK, platform security, innovation projects like Loom and Panama, and everything in between.
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Duke's Corner is a forum for conversations with Java developers. Tune in to connect with the community and learn how developers are innovating with Java around the world. Host: Jim Grisanzio, Oracle Java Developer Relations @jimgris
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Agents, MCP, and Graph Databases: Java Developers Navigate the AI Revolution (#86)
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The AI revolution isn't replacing Java developers. No, it's forcing us to think harder. Welcome to another episode of the Foojay Podcast! Today, we're talking about AI and Java, how it's changing the way we work, what we need to watch out for, and why understanding what's really happening matters more than ever. I recorded interviews at Devoxx and …
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Chris Hermansen: Don't be Afraid to Create
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Chris Hermansen, a Java developer, consultant, and data analyst from Canada. The conversation ranges from the innovative technical features in Java, developer creativity, career development, advice for students, and interesting ways to use Java and data analysis in real world applications and f…
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Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone (#85)
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Episode 85 of the Foojay Podcast. All info, show notes, and links are available at https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/. What if the future of Java depends on who we invite to learn it today? In this Foojay Podcast, we're diving into something that affects all of us in the Java community: How can we inspire the next generation of developers, a…
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Barry Burd: Teaching Java as an Art Form
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Barry Burd, a computer science teacher, an author, and the co-leader for two Java User Groups (JUGs). Barry is based in New Jersey and he's taught at the undergraduate level for decades. His journey with Java began in 2004 when he attended small user group meetings of just five or six people. T…
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"From Sumatra to Panama, from Babylon to Valhalla" with John Rose
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Java's development embraces the past as well as the future and after contributing to it for over 30 years, John Rose is intimately familiar with the process. In this episode he talks about feature design, the right amount of technical debt (which isn't actually zero), why Rice's theorem demands a mix of static and dynamic checks, how Project Sumatr…
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Developing Performant, Cost Efficient, and Eco-friendly Code (#84)
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In this Foojay Podcast, we're exploring a critical topic that's becoming increasingly important in our industry: developing sustainable software that is both performant and environmentally friendly. At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, I had fascinating conversations about how we as Java developers can make a real impact on both our cloud costs and…
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OpenJDK Evolutions plus Tips and Tricks (#83)
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Welcome to another episode of the Foojay Podcast! Just like in the previous episode, I bring you conversations from two of Europe's premier Java conferences - Devoxx in Belgium and JFall in the Netherlands. At these conferences, I had the opportunity to speak with members of the Java community about topics ranging from the evolution of Java itself …
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OpenJDK Projects (Leyden, Babylon, Panama) and TornadoVM (#82)
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In this Foojay Podcast, we're diving deep into some of the most exciting developments happening within the OpenJDK and TornadoVM projects. At the Devoxx and JFall conferences, we spoke with several speakers and visitors about some of the major themes that are shaping the future of Java development. The first guest is Moritz Halbritter from the Spri…
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Maven 4 - The Future of Java Build Automation (#81)
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Maven 4 is approaching its release, bringing many improvements to the build tool powering millions of Java projects. In this Foojay Podcast episode, we talk about Apache Maven 4, a significant milestone that has been years in the making. Maven has been the backbone of Java dependency management and build automation since the early 2000s; however, t…
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"From Cowboy Mode to Careful Stewardship" with Mark Reinhold
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Java is a 30-year success story, made possible because its development consistently aligned with users' needs. In its early days, the platform required new features quickly, but over time, minimizing code breakage while carefully evolving the platform became essential. Critical junctures along that path included the introduction of modules and the …
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This is part 2 of the interviews recorded on September 19th, 2025, at the first AI4Devs Conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) in Amsterdam. In Part 1, we explored many AI-related topics as libraries, security, infrastructure, use cases, and more. In this second part, we'll dive into data science, tools for better AI development, Java in the cl…
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On September 19th, 2025, the first AI4Devs conference (https://amsterdam.ai4devs.io/) took place in Amsterdam. I grabbed my camera and microphone to talk with speakers and attendees about the revolution in AI-powered coding and application development. In this first part, we'll explore Spring libraries, security, infrastructure and scaling, real-wo…
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"Amber & Valhalla - Incremental Design and Feature Arcs" with Brian Goetz
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OpenJDK projects such as Amber and Valhalla are renowned for their careful and methodical approach to designing and introducing new features to the Java platform. In this episode, Nicolai Parlog is joined by Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle and lead of both Project Amber and Project Valhalla. Brian shares insights and updates on these…
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Jim Grisanzio from Oracle Java Developer Relations talks with Mattias Karlsson, Java Champion and prominent developer in the Java community who was also honored with the Java Community Lifetime Achievement recognition at Jfokus in February 2024. "I was shocked and honored — very humbled!" Mattias said about being recognized for his lifetime of achi…
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Episode 78 of the Foojay Podcast. All info, show notes, and links are available at https://foojay.io/today/category/podcast/. We're excited to present the first episode of the Foojay Podcast's fifth season, marking the release of OpenJDK 25! For the first time, an OpenJDK release is aligned with the year, and we can welcome release 25 in 2025. As u…
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Venkat Subramaniam: I Teach Because I Learn
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Venkat Subramaniam who was recognized with the Java Community Lifetime Achievement honors by Oracle's Sharat Chander at Devoxx UK in May 2024. Venkat is a Java Champion, author, speaker, founder of Agile Developer, co-founder of the dev2next conference, and teacher at the University of Houston.…
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Bruno Souza: My Greatest Pride is the Community
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Bruno Souza, who is a Java Champion, leader of the SouJava User Group in Brazil, and a member of the JCP Executive Committee. Bruno received the first Java Community Lifetime Achievement recognition in October 2022 at JavaOne in Las Vegas. "I was totally surprised! I was jumping up and down! I …
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Trisha Gee: It's all about Relationships and People
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Trisha Gee, an author, a Java Champion, and a Developer Advocate at Gradle. In February 2025 at Jfokus in Stockholm Trisha received the Java Community Lifetime Achievement honor from Sharat Chander from Oracle Java Developer Relations. Trisha has been a Java developer for 25 years, and since 20…
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Cay Horstmann: Java Still Vibrant After 30 Years
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Cay Horstmann, a professor, author, and Java Champion. In April in Cologne, Germany at JCON Cay received the Java Community Lifetime Achievement recognition from Sharat Chander on the Oracle Java Developer Relations Team. This conversation covers the evolution of Java, the constant polishing of…
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Heinz Kabutz: Really Life Changing!
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks with Heinz Kabutz from the Island of Crete in Greece. Heinz has a PhD in Computer Science, publishes the The JavaSpecialists' Newsletter, and runs the JCrete Unconference. Heinz is also a Java Champion and a teacher, and he cares deeply about the technology and the community. Recently, Heinz was rec…
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"Deprecations & Removals" with Stuart Marks
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Java is not just adding features, it's also removing old ones that became obsolete and are either a maintenance burden, performance drag, or hazardous to use. In this episode we touch on 32bit ports, applets, finalization, and the security manager. Nicolai Parlog talks to Stuart Marks, who works in the JDK Core Libraries group at Oracle. Right now,…
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DevBcn Report, Part 2 – Spanish Knowledge Sharing (#77)
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This is the first Foojay podcast in Spanish. It's also the shortest one and the final of season 4 ;-) Jonathan Vila "highjacked" the microphone from Geertjan Wielenga (See episode 76, https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-76-devbcn-report-part-1-learn-from-the-community/) during the DevBcn conference in Barcelona and interviewed a few of the parti…
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DevBcn Report, Part 1 – Learn from the Community (#76)
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In early July, the DevBcn conference in Barcelona featured a diverse lineup of speakers, covering topics across multiple technology domains. Geertjan Wielenga took the camera and microphone with him to Spain. Together with Nacho Cougil and Jonathan Vila, two of the organizers, he spoke with many visitors about what they like most in Java, how AI in…
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Jim Grisanzio from Java Developer Relations talks 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 he loves learning, and he specializes in exploring the big picture of complicated systems in his career as a so…
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