Gilad Bracha            
Sun Microsystems, USA
gilad.bracha@sun.com

Genericity in the Java Programming Language: Key Issues

This talk will focus on the more controversial issues involved in adding 
genericity to the Java programming language. These are primarily support 
abstracting over primitive types and run-time support for generic types. 
The implications for compatibility and performance will be emphasized.


DEMO: A Demo of the Animorphic Smalltalk System

The Animorphic Smalltalk system was a high-performance (2.5-4X commercial 
implementations) Smalltalk environment that included a variety of novel 
features, including: A high-performance VM combining dynamic profile based 
compilation and interpretation that was the  precursor to the Hotspot Java 
virtual machine, mixins as a built-in feature in the VM and optional 
typechecking using the Strongtalk type system as well as a glyph-based UI, 
novel code browsers, mirror-based reflection and a typed blue-book library.