What with open
sourcing the JDK and all, our early head start on Java SE 7
planning has slowed from a run
to a trot. Not to worry, every thoroughbred needs to catch its breath
between races, with Java
SE 6 only on the verge of completion. And there are good signs we
can get the Java SE 7 planning team here at Sun to pick up steam again
in the New Year.
But in the meantime, I've continued to update our current thinking
since last
time I blogged about Java SE 7 on where we would like to take the
next version of the platform, and what we will be proposing to the JCP. Since I'm now in the video age (I'm
sure you saw
my debut), what better way than get the update than to watch me
talking about it at the infamous Czech
Java Users Group in
Prague last month.
For those of you watching the video, I start talking at the 50 minute
mark. Rob Harwood fom
JetBrains kicks off with a talk on an interesting use of annotations
in IntelliJ IDE, and
there are various celeb sightings of my techno-buddy Roumen in there too.