What Smalltalk can Learn from Java

by Philippe Marschall

Many Smalltalkers look upon Java as a lesser programming language. This and the sheer size of the Java world has led to a general disinterest in Java in the Smalltalk community except maybe as a target for flames. Yet over the years solutions for problems tat are independent of the the programming language have been implemented in Java and used in large scale systems.

The goal of the talk is to raise awareness of a few interesting Java projects that have no equivalence in Smalltalk.