Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) is here. Again. It has finally become a common feature in commodity server hardware platforms, and JVMs are gearing up to support it. But what will we do with HTM? This session will explore the underlying mechanics that power HTM on current platforms, focusing on things developers need to understand when contemplating the use of HTM in new and existing code. We will discuss and demonstrate new speculative and optimistic locking mechanisms enabled by HTM, cover benefits and limitations, and speculate (pun intended) about both the near term and long term future impact of HTM on concurrency choices and everyday programming choices.

Join Gil Tene, CTO of Azul Systems and member of the JCP Executive Committee, as he takes a look a where Java SE and the JDK are today (and where we've come from as a community). This technical backed talk will touch on Java 7/8/9/10/11 and explore the ecosystem, key decisions and trends, and bumps we've had (or will have) along the way. Some of the areas this talk explores include:

• OpenJDK  and the move of Java SE to open source
• The role of Java in the Big Data and Infrastructure components
• Unsafe
• JCP and OpenJDK
• Upcoming capabilities with JDK9, and what later versions may be adding
• and much, much more