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Duke's Corner Live at JavaOne
The Duke’s Corner Java Podcast contributed an 11 minute segment to the Community Keynote at JavaOne 2025 in California in March. Jim Grisanzio from Oracle Java Developer Relations hosted the program with special guests Cay Horstmann, Marit van Dijk, and Lize Raes. The panel covered the latest bits in Java, how to contribute to the community, and the best bits from JavaOne. Everyone had a great time!
Here’s the full Community Keynote session from JavaOne in March 2025. And here are 600 images and six video shorts I shot at the event.
All images from JavaOne 2025 here on Flickr.
Transcript
Hello, and welcome, everybody. Welcome to Duke's Corner Live. So Duke's Corner is a podcast that I started on the Oracle Java Developer Relations team in 2022. So we're just running about three years. We got about 60 episodes in the can. And in some ways, it's a very traditional podcast. We talk about Java, obviously, the community, hackers,
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open source, things like this, a lot of education and learning. You know, Java developers have to keep up with everything and grow and things like that. So it's really cool in that respect and it's very informational. There's no frills. There's no bumper music or anything like that. It's just conversations.
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But the most important thing for me is hearing the stories of Java developers. So sometimes you hear stories about, hey, I got to do X, Y, and Z. I have to learn this. I have to contribute to OpenJDK. What do I do? Things like that. but also you hear stories like, hey, Java saved my life.
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Java, you took me out of poverty. I'm now able to fund my college education or things like that. These are the stories that really inspire me, and that's why I do the podcast. I'm really interested to hear the stories of developers, and through those stories, you learn about all the other things, Java, and Jugs,
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you know, OpenJDK and everything else. But it's the profile. It's the story from the developer. So that's it. It's very simple. If you just search, you know, for Duke's Corner, you know, podcast, you'll find it and love you to listen. And I've met a lot of developers here, obviously,
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so I'm excited to have some new programs in the coming year. But for the next few minutes here, let's just run a little session. I got a couple of my colleagues here in the background here, so we'll bring out Kai Hortzman and Marit van Dijk and Lisa Reis. We'll have a little session. Okay, welcome.
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So let's talk tech, let's talk community and maybe get a little personal too. So Kai, lead us off with some tech here. So OpenJDK, you know, so Java 24, sorry, is out this week. And what's the most important thing that developers should pay attention to or
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what's the most interesting thing in the latest releases to help them with productivity or just to do something really, really cool?
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Well, every release has a lot of things, and I think everyone is different in what they like. What I was most excited about was the developments that help you write small Java programs more easily, both to learn Java and also to use Java in the small. It's actually a fantastic language. for smaller programs.
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The other thing that I personally liked were there were some things that made my programs run better or faster or with less memory with me doing either nothing at all or very little. The garbage collector is getting even better. I'm excited about seeing Project Leiden where I can get my program to start up faster. Cool. Any thoughts?
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Published on 4 months ago