JavaFX: Evolution and Revolution with Johan Vos

We're having a special lunchtime edition of the Silicon Valley JavaFX meetup since everyone is at home anyway:

Johan Vos presents:

There are two movements happening in JavaFX:

1. The fixed 6-months release cadence gives developers a very predictable path, which guarantees the stability and maturity that Java developers are used to. Moreover, with LTS releases companies can be safe that applications they write in Java today are still working and supported in 6 years from now.

2. JavaFX is making its way back on mobile and embedded, thanks to static compilation techniques.
   A combination of recent evolutions in OpenJDK, OpenJFX and GraalVM and Gluon Mobile allows Java developers to easily create Java apps that run on desktop, mobile and embedded with a single codebase and at a high performance.

In this session, we will discuss both the evolution and the revolution.

BIO:
Johan Vos started to work with Java in 1995. He was part of the Blackdown team, porting Java to Linux. His main focus is on end-to-end Java, combining back-end systems and mobile/embedded devices. He received a Duke Choice award in 2014 for his work on javafx on mobile.

In 2015, he co-founded Gluon, which allows enterprises to create (mobile) Java Client applications leveraging their existing backend infrastructure. Gluon received a Duke Choice award in 2015.

Johan is a Java Champion, a member of the BeJUG steering group, the Devoxx steering group and he is a JCP member. He is one of the lead authors of the Pro JavaFX books, the author of Quantum Computing for Java Developers, and he has been a speaker at numerous conferences on Java.

He contributes to a number of projects, including OpenJFX, OpenJDK, GraalVM.
He is also the project lead for OpenJDK Mobile and the co-lead for OpenJFX.