Java 8 Date & Time Hackday

This is an opportunity to experiment with, and provide feedback on, the new Date and Time libraries coming in Java 8. JSR-310 is the new date time API thats been highly anticipated and under development for a while.

We're hosting an event designed to help the Expert Group fine tune the API in the remaining months before Java 8, and both of the Expert Group Leads will be in attendance in order to see what's going on.

The event will kick off with a presentation by Richard and James briefly introducing the main concepts within JSR-310. Then we'll break up into pairs or small groups. There will be a set of exercises, broken up into different difficulty levels that give people a good opportunity to explore the API. We'll be heavily focussed on certain areas of the API - though obviously, if you have your own use cases and wish to simply explore, please bring these along too.

You will need a laptop with an existing development environment installed on, though we'll be providing you a jar and some javadoc, so you don't need to worry about compiling your own Threeten build.

The event will be hosted at Opengamma's offices - https://plus.google.com/112324003526925804161/about?gl=uk&hl=en . And thanks go to them for sponsoring both the event, and the development of JSR-310 itself.