Welcome to New Java Champion Rémi Forax
Rémi has been teaching programming at the University of Paris Est Marne la Vallée for over 10 years. He is a prolific contributor to several expert groups:
- Invokedynamic (JSR 292) which supports efficient and flexible execution of method invocations in the absence of static type information.
- Lambda (JSR 335), which extends the Java language to support compact lambda expressions (closures), as well as related language and library features to enable the Java SE APIs to use lambda expressions effectively.
- Jigsaw (JSR 376), which defines a module system for the Java Platform.
As a member of core expert groups, Rémi has contributed to many new patterns in the JVM and the JDK. He is the main contributor to the ASM project (http://asm.ow2.org/), the Tatoo project (http://tatoo.univ-mlv.fr/) and the Dragon compiler project.
Rémi is a frequent speaker at many conferences and JUGs in Europe and the U.S. including Devoxx (BE, FR), JavaOne, JFokus, JTRES, JVM Summit, most of the French-speaking JUGs (in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg).
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