JDK 7: Checking in
Filed under: javase jdk7 modularity multicore multilanguage swing on Wednesday Feb 25, 2009
Whether or not you are coming to
JavaOne this year, you should count having a preview of JDK7 ready for you to try. So
let's check in on where the larger features on the plate are at since Mark
talked about JDK7 at Devoxx
in December. (And since Alex gave one
of his updates).Modularity work is progressing with proposals up for comment in Project Jigsaw.
Good stuff coming in the VM with the support to turbo-charge Java SE for multiple languages, and the new garbage collector, which made it into the latest build of Java SE 6u14.
Though not enough for some Swing developers (who might be interested in this project), we'll bring some important improvements to Swing.
Java language-wise, Joe is sifting through the small Java language proposals as part of Project Coin. Opinions still welcome. And you check out the project that will add annotations to (all) Java types by trying out the latest Checker framework.
NIO2 is tuning the new APIs for scalable IO, including the new FileSystem API, which you can get in the latest build.
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