Which Java experts to follow in 2021

In mastering any rapidly developing technology, including Java, not only books and practice help, but also knowledge of trends. For what? To concentrate on promising areas. The day before, we wrote about what will happen to Java in 2021 , and in this text we collected Java experts from around the world who are worth following to follow the development of the language. We already had a similar text , but in this one we are writing about a new batch of specialists.

Gail Anderson

Gail Anderson is Director of Research and Co-Founder of Anderson Software Group . Gail enjoys writing about cutting-edge technologies in Java programming. She is also the co-author of eight programming textbooks, including “JavaFX Rich Client Programming” on the NetBeans platform. Anderson's current passion is exploring JavaFX with GraalVM for cross-platform mobile applications. She recently co-authored the book The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX: Cross-Platform Mobile and Cloud Development. Twitter: @gail_asgteach Website: asgteach.com

Agnès Crépet

Agnès is a co-founder of the Java development team Ninja-Squad . She was also a long-time leader of the Lyon Java User Group , and today heads the organization Duchess France , which supports women in the IT industry. To date, Agnès is the only French woman to have received the title of Java Champion (Java Champions are nominated by members of the Java community and must be unanimously approved by a committee of existing Java Champions. Requirements for acceptance usually include a high level of influence in the community, a strong track record of innovation, managing open source projects code or education, authorship of books or articles about Java and/or public speaking in the field of Java - ed.) . Agnes enjoys speaking about design patterns and object-oriented programming at conferences around the world. You can read her technical articles about Java ecosystem frameworks on the Duchesses blog . Twitter: @agnes_crepet Website: ninja-squad.com

Jeff Dinkins

Dinkins works at Oracle , leads the Java Core Libraries group , and is a presenter at the CodeOne conference . Previously, he was technical manager for the Swing and AWT development teams at Sun Microsystems. Works on the Swing GUI Toolkit since its launch in 1996. Twitter: @JeffAtSun

Trisha Gee

Tricia is a Java champion, published author, and leader of the Developer Advocate Java team at JetBrains. Trisha has developed Java applications for a variety of industries, including finance, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations. She has worked with high-performance systems written in Java, is an open source developer, and is a leader of the Sevilla Java User Group. Trisha loves to share articles that help developers. These could be: reviews of new versions of Java; tips and training for saving time using IntelliJ IDEA. Tricia also produces a monthly newsletter for JetBrains, Java Annotated Monthly . Twitter: @Trisha_Gee Website: trishagee.com

Chet Haase

Chet leads the Android UI toolkit team at Google, where he works on animation, graphics, and hardware acceleration for the Android platform. It works with all desktop Java technologies, including Swing and Java 2D. He also co-authored the book “Developing Animation and Graphics Effects for Desktop Java Applications . ” Twitter: @chethaase Blog: graphics-geek.blogspot.com

Jessica Kerr

Jessica Kerr is a lead engineer at Atomist , where she uses her knowledge of Java and other languages ​​to build delivery automation applications. Jessica is an international speaker who talks about how Java developers can keep up with new technologies. She also tweets a lot about Java . Twitter: @Jessitron Website: jessitron.com

Mark Reinhold

Mark Reinhold is a Principal Architect in Oracle's Java Platform Group with extensive knowledge of Java. Previously, he was Sun Microsystems' Principal Engineer for Java SE and Open JDK. You can subscribe to it to keep track of all announcements about upcoming Java releases. Twitter: @mreinhold

Reza Rahman

Reza Rahman is the Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure at Microsoft. Previously, Reza was an official Java Technologist at Oracle. Rahman has been working with Java EE technology since its inception, developing virtually every major application platform, from Tomcat to JBoss, GlassFish, WebSphere and WebLogic. A regular conference speaker and award-winner, Rahman is a veteran of the EJB, Java EE, and JMS development teams. Twitter: @reza_rahman Website: reza-rahman.me

Ken Fogel

NetBeans Dream Team member Vogel describes himself as an avid Java enthusiast. He shares his extensive knowledge of computer science through his work as Chair of the Computer Science Department at Dawson College in Quebec. In addition to software, Vogel writes on social media about computer hardware and runs the Omni Java website , where he posts tutorials and information for programmers of all skill levels. Twitter: @omniprof Website: omnijava.com

Heather Vancura

Heather leads the Java Community Process (JCP) at Oracle , and also leads global Java adoption programs and organizes developer hackathons ( Hackergartens ) around the world. Heather is also trying to get more girls into tech. To achieve this, she hosts events such as Devoxx4Kids and works with the TechBridge Girls project . Twitter: @heathervc Website: heathervcblog.wordpress.com Which Java experts do you follow on the Internet? Write in the comments who you are reading and why.