Joseph D. Darcy's Sun Weblog

Monday December 08, 2008

OpenJDK 6: Trial Mercurial Repositories Available

Thanks to Kelly, trial Mercurial repositories for OpenJDK 6 are now available for evaluation. These trial repositories will be available read-only for about a week to find any problems before creating the final live repositories; for details, see Kelly's email to the jdk6-dev alias.

Coming Soon: A JSR for small language changes in JDK 7

I'm happy to announce that I'll be leading up Sun's efforts to develop a set of small language changes in JDK 7; we intend to submit a JSR covering those changes during the first half of 2009. However, before the JSR proposal is drafted and submitted to the JCP, we'll first be running a call for proposals so Java community members can submit detailed, thoughtful changes for consideration too. We'll be seeding the discussion with a few proposals we think would improve the language. More information on our proposed changes, guidance for measuring the size of a change, and criteria for judging the desirability of a language change will be coming over the next several weeks.

I've proposed an OpenJDK project to host the discussion of the proposals and potentially some prototype implementations.

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