Ceylon for Java Developers

This is a virtual Meetup occuring at 5PM UK time. For help with your timezone calculation, refer to this (http://time.is/1700_9_Dec_2014_in_London/San_Francisco/New_York/UTC/Beijing/Sydney/Tokyo?Ceylon_for_Java_Developers).

You can tune in to the session at http://virtualJUG.com (http://virtualjug.com/)

If all fails, you can still access YouTube and IRC via previous means:

1. Join the IRC channel (https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#virtualJUG) - Ask questions, chat, discuss

2. View the live stream on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/virtualJUG/live)

Ceylon for Java developers

• What are the major advantages/features Ceylon provides
• Why should someone move from Java to Ceylon
• What is the future direction of Ceylon

This is one of 4 session in Dec, investigating other JVM Languages

Speaker: Gavin King

Gavin King leads the Ceylon project at Red Hat. Gavin is the creator of Hibernate (http://hibernate.org), a popular object/relational persistence solution for Java, and the Seam Framework (http://seamframework.org), an application framework for enterprise Java. He's contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as lead of the CDI specification (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299).

Gavin now works full time on Ceylon, polishing the language specification, developing the compiler frontend, working on the IDE, and thinking about the SDK and future of the platform. He's still a fan of Java, and of other languages, especially Smalltalk, Python, and ML.