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 weekend, Brian Goetz, a Senior Engineer at Oracle working on Java 7, posted a document suggesting that...
5 replies - 4914 views - 05/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... 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 progress on Project Lambda this week. Currently at version 0.15, Project Lambda's mailing list...
0 replies - 17326 views - 05/12/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... 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 things he is working on in the OpenJDK Project and he revealed some of the preliminary explorations...
3 replies - 12056 views - 02/16/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
CA, the agile solutions company, introduced a new suggestion box forum called the Agile Planner Community. The community will give developers a chance to mold the future of CA's upcoming Agile Planner tool. Go there now and tell CA the best ways to...
0 replies - 11923 views - 11/24/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
The following is a list of the language features I miss most when programming Java:
16 replies - 8544 views - 11/23/09 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
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 etc. Some want features that they belive would make their life a lot simpler. Others see the same...
13 replies - 6586 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 find out if there's anything I actually needed. One thing that struck me about the whole thing is...
117 replies - 22751 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 crowd against. FCS and CISE don't stir up too many anti-comments, but usually aren't the gurus'...
37 replies - 7211 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 Understanding the closures debate. I heard about this article on JavaPosse episode 194, and it's also...
21 replies - 3846 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.
7 replies - 3737 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 functions and continuations, a built-in debugger, taint mode security, and access to the Java class...
2 replies - 5304 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 proposal, and contained an example that pushed hard on some of the tougher closure issues for Java.
2 replies - 9337 views - 06/16/08 by Richard Dallaway in Articles
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 with an opportunity to catch up with all the latest news. There are over 150 technical sessions...
2 replies - 6208 views - 06/04/08 by James Sugrue in Articles
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 - 8263 views - 05/21/08 by Jörn Zaefferer in News
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 visitor rather than executing it.
2 replies - 3833 views - 03/16/08 by Alex Miller in News
