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
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
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
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
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
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
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