The Inventor of the Dukelele
March 9, 2005
Pictures
of a must-have
novelty have been popping up all over Java-related web sites recently,
including on James Gosling’s blog. Duke briefly
introduces the inventor, Kazuhiro
Kazama, and mentions Kazama-san’s activities around Project Looking Glass.
But what Duke forgets to tell us is that he and Kazama-san have been friends
for a long time. Kazama-san has helped Duke on two expert groups, JSR
51 (New I/O APIs) and JSR
204 (Supplementary Character Support). He has translated and improved the
one and only Java Internationalization book
into Japanese. He’s a driver of Ja-Jakarta,
the Japanese group of users and developers of Tomcat
and related technologies. And he’s always ready to provide Duke and his
helpers with advice, in particular on the needs of Japanese developers. Here
he is, discussing servlet character encoding issues with Servlet specification
lead Yutaka Yoshida at the Java Technology Conference in Tokyo, February 2004.