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I'm very excited about QCon San Francisco, which is now less than 3 weeks away - I'm going to be hosting the Java In Action track, and we've secured an excellent set of speakers and presentations. There are going to be five sessions in all, with the first four being presentations:

1. Rod Johnson will be doing a presentation on Spring
2. Alexandru Popescu and Cedric Beust will be doing a presentation on designing code for testability
3. Brian Goetz will be doing a presentation on models for developing multithreaded, concurrent programs
4. Adrian Colyer will be doing a presentation on using AOP in enterprise applications 

The fifth session will be a panel talk which will deal with the future of Java development, and as the abstract says:

The Java of today bears little resemblance to the 1.0 Java release in 1995 - Swing, Java EE, Java ME, Generics, Annotations, and Dynamic languages are a few examples of major changes or innovations which have occurred to the base Java platform. Over the course of the last 12 years, the Java language and the associated APIs have grown and adapted to match a wide variety of applications.

This panel discussion with several influential leaders of the software development community will discuss and debate how the Java language and APIs will look in the future based upon the lessons we have learned from the past. In particular, it will focus on how application development will change, and the variety of enabling features that we can expect to have available to us as developers in the next few years, starting with Java 7.

I'm really looking forward to this talk, as I believe that it will be a fascinating glimpse into the future of software development in general, and Java development in particular. We have speakers from a very diverse set of backgrounds and experiences to ensure that we have a rich and vibrant discussion - the list of speakers (and the aspects of the Java ecosystem that I feel they represent) are:

• Rod Johnson, who has a lot of industry experience with a successful, portable application development framework (Spring)
• Charles Nutter, who has a lot of experience with dynamic languages, and is the project lead for JRuby
• Joshua Bloch, who is a renowned expert in the intricacies of Java and who has been involved in the platform's development almost since the very beginning
• Chet Haase, who is an integral part of the Java 7 development team
• Erik Meijer, who is a .Net platform developer and creator of the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) extension to the .Net Framework

By introducing someone from outside of the Java ecosystem, we hope to benefit from the parallel but distinct experience of a similar framework to Java - for example, some of the places that Java hopes to go, .Net has already experimented with, and this will allow Erik to be able to say "We tried that, it failed for this reason and we had more success with this".

The speakers are ready, the stage is set, and the countdown has begun - but what questions should they be asked? This is where you come in. What questions do you want to hear this panel debate? I want to know what you think, and there's a good chance that any questions which are posted here will be asked of these five experts during this panel discussion - so, ask away!

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