Java 7

Would Type Inference Help Java?

My former colleague Lars Westergren recently posted a blog (here) about type inferencing, posing the question whether type inference would actually be good for...

0 replies - 1213 views - 05/16/08 by olabini in News

JavaOne: Brian Goetz on concurrency in Java 7

Brian's talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few...

2 replies - 2810 views - 05/07/08 by Alex Miller in News

A new GC for Java 7

Jon Masamitsu wrote up a great post summarizing the current collectors in the Sun JDK and also how combinations of these young and old collectors are triggered...

0 replies - 3759 views - 02/02/08 by Alex Miller in News

Vote for OSGi integration with Java Modules

Glyn Normington posted that a sunbug has been created to track OSGi support in JSR 277 (Java Modules). You can vote for the bug if you would like to see this...

2 replies - 2025 views - 02/01/08 by Alex Miller in News

Gosling on Closures

James Gosling decided to state his opinion unambiguously on closures for Java 7. In summary: yes, he wants 'em!

0 replies - 2823 views - 01/31/08 by Alex Miller in News

Java 7 Predictions

So, we're a few weeks into the new year and it's time for my predictions about what will make it into Java 7. My best guess is that a Java 7 SE JSR will be...

10 replies - 10851 views - 01/22/08 by Alex Miller in News

Stack frame annotation

There has been an interesting thread lately in the jvm-languages Google group that I thought was worth bringing up. The thread concerns finding a better...

1 replies - 1393 views - 01/20/08 by Alex Miller in News