Joshua J. Bloch (born August 28, 1961) is an American

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and a technology author, formerly employed at Sun Microsystems and

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. He led the design and implementation of numerous

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features, including the

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Framework, the package, and the mechanism."About the Author"
''Effective Java Programming Language Guide'' He is the author of the programming guide ''Effective Java'' (2001), which won the 2001 Jolt Award, and is a co-author of two other Java books, ''Java Puzzlers'' (2005) and ''Java Concurrency In Practice'' (2006). Bloch holds a

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from

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's School of Engineering and Applied Science and a

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in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. His 1990 thesis was titled ''A Practical Approach to Replication of Abstract Data Objects'' and was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. Bloch has worked as a Senior Systems Designer at

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, and later as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. In June 2004, he left Sun and became Chief Java Architect at

. On August 3, 2012, Bloch announced that he would be leaving Google. In December 2004, ''Java Developer's Journal'' included Bloch in its list of the "Top 40 Software People in the World". Bloch has proposed the extension of the Java programming language with two features: Concise Instance Creation Expressions (CICE) (coproposed with Bob Lee and

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) and Automatic Resource Management (ARM) blocks. The combination of CICE and ARM formed one of the three early proposals for adding support for closures to Java. ARM blocks were added to the language in JDK7. Bloch is currently an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University, where he holds the title "

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Bibliography

* ''Effective Java: Programming Language Guide'', , 2001; second edition: , 2008; third edition: , 2017 * ''Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases'', , 2005 (co-authored with Neal Gafter) * ''Java Concurrency in Practice'', , 2006 (co-authored with Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and

) *

References

External links

* * Janice J. Heiss
More Effective Java With Google's Joshua Bloch
October, 2008
Josh Bloch, How to design a good API and why it matters, Google Tech Talk, 2007
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