*Write Once, Run Forever: The Java Story is coming July 17th at 7pm UTC.*

The Java Story traces Java's improbable journey, from its near-death before it even launched, through its reinvention for the web, its rise as the backbone of enterprise software, the open sourcing-battle and its multiple lawsuits, and its remarkable renaissance from Java 8 onward. Told by the people who built it and the community that kept pushing it forward: 

*Past & Present Java Team Members  from Sun / Oracle*

James Gosling
Creator of Java

Joshua Bloch
Creator of the Java Collections Framework, Author of Effective Java, Former Sun, Former Google, Professor of CS at Carnegie Mellon
X: @joshbloch

James Duncan Davidson
Creator of Apache Tomcat

Brian Goetz
Java Language Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/briangoetz.bsky.social

Tim Lindholm
Co-author Java Virtual Machine Specification

Kim Polese
Java's first Product Manager

Mark Reinhold
Chief Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mreinhold.org

Georges Saab
Senior Vice President, Java Platform Group, Oracle and Chair, OpenJDK Governing Board
X: https://x.com/gsaab

Paul Sandoz
Architect, Java Platform Group, Oracle
X: https://x.com/PaulSandoz

Carla Schroer
Java Compatibility Program, Sun Microsystems


Sharat Chander
Senior Director, Java Product Management & Developer Engagement, Oracle
X: https://x.com/Sharat_Chander

Heather VanCura
Vice President and Java Community Process Chairperson and Director, Oracle
X: https://x.com/heathervc

*Java Community*

Paul Bakker
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
X: @pbakker

Lars Bergstrom
Director of Engineering, Google Android
X: @larsberg_

Andrey Breslav
Creator of Kotlin 
X: @abreslav 

Ivar Grimstad
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theguywiththeduketattoo.com

Rod Johnson
Creator of Spring
X: @springrod

Gavin King
Creator of Hibernate
X: @1ovthafew

Mark Little
Vice President Java Runtimes and Java Integration, IBM
X: @nmcl

Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate 
X: @starbuxman

Venkat Subramaniam
Java Champion, Author & Educator
X: venkat_s

Tagir Valeev
Technical Lead, Java Team, JetBrains
X: @tagir_valeev


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*Filmmakers*

Directed by: Joey Bania
Produced by: Emma Tracey

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Write Once, Run Forever: The Java Story | Official Trailer | Full Film Coming July 17th