With the scheduled beta release of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5 (J2SE 1.5) in late 2003, (known as project "Tiger") there is quite a buzz among developers about coming changes. No one is better positioned to explain J2SE 1.5 language changes than Joshua Bloch (Google). Bloch, an architect in the Core Java Platform Group, designed and implemented the award-winning Java Collections Framework, the java.math package, and has contributed to many other parts of the platform.
Author of numerous articles and papers, Bloch has also written a book, Effective Java Programming Language Guide, which won the prestigious Jolt Award from Software Development Magazine.
Bloch holds a B.S. from Columbia University and a PhD from Carnegie-Melon University.
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