Stuart Marks

Stuart Marks
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

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Stuart Marks is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Java Platform Group at Oracle. He is currently working on enhancing the core libraries of the JDK. He has previously worked on JavaFX and Java ME at Sun Microsystems. He has over twenty years of software platform product development experience in the areas of window systems, interactive graphics, and mobile and embedded systems. Stuart holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

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Sessions

11:50am Friday, 07/20/2012
Reducing Technical Debt in OpenJDK -- The Legacy and the Burden
Java & JVM
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: java, jdk, openjdk, technical_debt, maintenance, software_lifecycle
Stuart Marks (Oracle)
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Like many projects, OpenJDK has technical debt. OpenJDK, being an implementation of the Java platform, bears a greater burden: evolving the platform makes its own implementation go out of date. It's an enormous effort to keep the JDK up to date with Java. This talk examines this kind of technical debt in OpenJDK and presents some paths toward mitigating it. Read more.

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