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javax: Suggestion for Including New Language Features

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 - 4603 views - 03/20/09 by Roland Carlsson in Articles

Do You Really Need Java 7?

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 - 15915 views - 10/17/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Closures - Breaking the Deadlock

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...

37 replies - 4638 views - 08/14/08 by Mikael Grev in Articles

Closures for Java. Is it Really a Good Idea?

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 - 2568 views - 07/03/08 by Jesper in Articles

Yet Another Reason Why Java Needs Closures

Ever try to unit test code with static method calls? That's right. You know how this feels. 

7 replies - 2429 views - 06/17/08 by dennisbyrne in Articles

Sleep 2.1: Java Scripting Language

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 - 2716 views - 06/16/08 by Raphael Mudge in Announcements

Comparing Closures in Java, Groovy and Scala

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 - 3764 views - 06/16/08 by d6y in Articles

My Top Five Sessions From JavaONE 2008

The JavaONE technical sessions have been made available with featured videos and PDFs of the technical sessions, helping those of us who missed the conference...

2 replies - 3822 views - 06/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

Closures in Java and Scala

People argue that verbose code is easier to understand. Do you agree when reading these two examples, one method in Java, one in Scala?

11 replies - 3832 views - 05/21/08 by joern.zaefferer in News

Dynamic visitor builder with closures

In my previous post I was fumbling with how to leverage closures to improve the visitor pattern. Neal suggested that I could leverage closures in building the...

2 replies - 2537 views - 03/16/08 by Alex Miller in News

Java Closures Death Match

With the recent surge in Java closures blogs, I thought I would do a roundup on some recent hot topics. Probably the most important development is that we now...

10 replies - 6981 views - 03/03/08 by Alex Miller in News

Java closures and threading

My main concern with proposals for closures in Java has always been that it has the potential of making multi-threading so transparent that you forget to think...

2 replies - 457 views - 02/22/08 by Torbjörn Gannholm in News

Who's driving Java?

Ted Neward has a good post asking who is the moral leader of the Java language, particularly with respect to Java 7 and the future of the various closure...

18 replies - 3189 views - 02/19/08 by Alex Miller in News

Higher-order functions with Groovy, part 1

I'll admit, higher-order functions sounds like link bait for over-achievers. Trust me, I didn't invent the term :-) A Higher-order function is a concept from...

6 replies - 7221 views - 02/03/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Comic: James Brings Closure to the Debate

Did James Gosling just end the ongoing closures debate?

1 replies - 3188 views - 02/01/08 by Eric Burke in News