Report on the last week of submissions for Project Coin's week 4. 26 new proposals in the last week, 70 altogether; with over 1100 messages in the mailing list. As the song goes... Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) (or a language no longer deemed cool...). In addition to the relevance of the Java Language, I see this is a good example of the benefits of an open process, with a receptive project leader.

Too many interesting examples to highlight - but I'll choose two from John Rose: JSR 292 Support (mail) and Expressions in Strings. Looking forward to more details on the analysis of the submissions.

Nice progress on Project Coin, the project for accepting small changes to the Java Language.

Joe is reporting over 17 proposals in his latest post, including familiar names like Neal Gafter, Josh Bloch and Bob Lee, but also many others; I tried to get an up-to-date count from the Mail Archive but there was hard to count... which is good. I think the project will be a big success, and may be a good indicator of the type of activity possible through OpenJDK. I'll keep you posted, in the meantime, check out Joe's status update and his Strings in Switch proposal.

The Java language has seen a few big additions like Generics but also a number of small changes. These changes are less glamorous but they continuously improve the "fit and finish" of the language and I'm happy to see today's announcement by Joe on the new OpenJDK Project Coin targeted to JDK 7. To get the full background check Joe's description of What's Needed to add a new Java language feature (spec changes, implementation, tests...); his announcement of small changes in JDK 7; and then the criteria for these changes.