The following post was originally written by Amit Phaltankar Friends, in the last tutorial we had a detailed introduction to Java
8’s Feature of...
0 replies - 5532 views - 10/18/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
It's no secret that some developers in the Java community are doubting whether or not closures in Java 7 will be ready by the deadline this year. Over the...
5 replies - 5715 views - 05/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
David Flanagan doesn't seem to think so. The programming consultant and writer for O'Reilly Media shared some frustrating observations about the lack of...
0 replies - 20727 views - 05/12/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
The renewed Oracle TechCasts kicked off today with Mark Reinhold talking about JDK 7 and answering questions from viewers. Reinhold discussed the significant...
5 replies - 14128 views - 02/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
0 replies - 1675 views - 12/16/09 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized
CA, the agile solutions company, introduced a new suggestion box forum called the Agile Planner Community. The community will give developers a chance to...
0 replies - 14629 views - 11/24/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The following is a list of the language features I miss most when programming Java:Closures:
are useful for implementing abstractions that involve...
16 replies - 10212 views - 11/23/09 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
0 replies - 2697 views - 05/22/09 by Rafael Naufal in Uncategorized
For a while now, a lot of people have expressed a lot of opinions about how to keep the Java language up to date with other languages like C#, Groovy, Ruby etc...
13 replies - 7552 views - 03/20/09 by Roland Carlsson in Articles
It's a long wait for Java 7 and there's a lot of speculation about what we can expect once the final JSR is out. I took a look through the what's coming up to...
117 replies - 25119 views - 10/17/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
The decision threads about closures are currently in a situation that can best be described as a deadlock. BGGA has the most proponents, but also the biggest...
40 replies - 8555 views - 08/14/08 by Mikael Grev in Articles
There's a very good article on JavaWorld by Klaus Kreft and Angelika Langer (the latter is the author of the well-known Java Generics FAQ) with the title...
21 replies - 4498 views - 07/03/08 by Jesper De Jong in Articles
Ever try to unit test code with static method calls? That's right. You know how this feels. class Untestable{ public void doSomething(){ ... ...
7 replies - 4295 views - 06/17/08 by Dennis Byrne in Articles
After 2 years of development, Sleep 2.1 is now released. Sleep is a Java-based scripting language heavily inspired by Perl. Features include first-class...
2 replies - 6021 views - 06/16/08 by Raphael Mudge in Announcements
On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA closures...
2 replies - 10976 views - 06/16/08 by Richard Dallaway in Articles
