java 7

Shop talk with the Java 7 developers: A conversation with Martijn Verburg and Ben Evans

Athen OShea — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:56:25 -0400

Martijn Verburg and Ben Evans are both seasoned Java developers who have nonetheless caught the wave of excitement about Java 7 and the changes it brings to the Java ecosystem. In addition to regularly blogging (both on JW and abroad), co-organizing the London Java User Group, and speaking at numerous technical conferences, Martijn and Ben have written a contemporary guide to Java programming in The Well-Grounded Java Developer, currently available in early access edition from Manning Publications.

It's a pleasure to host the Java 7 Developer Blog on JavaWorld, and even more so to pick the brains of its authors, whose joint perspective on Java extends back 20 years but is refreshingly forward thinking.

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Java 7 delayed -- but maybe not forever

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:08:44 -0400

Mark Reinhold, the Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group, has announced the a delay in the anticipated release of the JDK, by at least a year. In fact, the Java community seems to be faced with two different choices: a two year pushback, to mid-2012, for an all-features-as-promised version of the JDK; or a release in the middle of next year that would exclude Projects Lambda (closures), Jigsaw (modularity), and Coin ("small language changes"), which would instead by rolled into a JDK release for late 2012.

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June 3 is JDK 7 feature complete day! (Or not?)

Josh Fruhlinger — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:18:04 -0400

What with all the upheaval in the world of Java over the past year, you'd be forgiven for forgetting that a shiny new iteration of the core language, Java 7, is on the horizon, or at least is supposed to be. In fact, an actual honest-to-goodness Java 7 is nowhere close to reality, for various Java community political reasons.

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Java does have an (immediate) future!

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:14:05 -0500

We spend a lot of time here at Java To Go talking about the long term future of Java, both in the "What will happen when/if Oracle and Sun finally merge" sense and in the "Is Java dying/stabilizing/becoming uncool" sense. But that can often skip over the more concrete and immediate future of the language, which is being plugged away on despite these distractions.

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Java 7 rumbles along

Josh Fruhlinger — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:01:24 -0500

Things have been a bit quiet in the Java world lately, so I might as well point you at a few items of interest regarding the upcoming Java 7 release.

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Happy Java New Year!

Josh Fruhlinger — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:41:48 -0500

It's the end of the World's Slowest News Week here in Java land, which also happens to be simultaneously the last week of 2008 and the first of 2009.

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