Dalia Abo Sheasha

Dalia Abo Sheasha

Biography

Dalia Abo Sheasha is the development lead for the IBM WebSphere Migration Tools. Her team develops several migration tools that deal with a variety of scenarios including Java SE migrations and on-premise to cloud migrations. Dalia has worked on WebSphere for 5 years starting her career with the EJB team and transitioning to the JPA team where she contributed to the open-source projects: EclipseLink and OpenJPA.

Migrating Beyond Java 8
Learn about the breaking changes that went into Java since Java 8 and tools to help you find migration issues when migrating from Java 8 to Java 11/13.
Future of Java Panel
We now have a generation of developers joining our organisations and workforces that are younger than Java. They have grown up with an ever-expanding catalog of applications, languages and frameworks at their fingertips. The question is, should we still be encouraging them to develop and code in Java? Is Java still relevant to this generation? If so, how can we entice more young developers to tackle the JVM?