Alex Miller comments on the surprise JDK 7 announcement at Devoxx, in Closures after all?
Apparently Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to JDK 7 at Devoxx today... I can't say what to make of that really. For years Sun has been saying that there is no consensus on closures and delayed the formation of a JSR or expert group on the subject despite having three proposals, all wi
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Conferences typically include some surprise announcements, usually by corporate sponsors of the conference. But a great many developers were astonished by the unexpected news from DEVOXX '09 that JDK 7 will include closures...
Danny Coward posted Devoxx 09: JDK 7, Java EE 6, JavaFX, Java Store and more:
The Janitor is here at Devoxx, just down
the road from Neelie Kroes ! Her
influence was on show at the Oracle
keynote, which began with a
legal disclaimer saying something about forward
looking statements about products not being indicative of anything.
One has to be sympathetic as the commission's
wheels grind
Geerjan Wielenga posted his notes on Devoxx Day 3: Conference Day 1:
The conference proper started today. Up until now, there had been a lot of very long sessions, lasting 3 hours or so, i.e., university sessions. Now, not only did the sessions become shorter (i.e., more presentation-like and less lecture-like), but several big guns from the world of programming (e.g., James Gosling, as well a
It seems that at Devoxx it has been announced that closures will make their way in Java 7, after all.I don't want to discuss whether it's a good or a bad thing (you know I think it's bad I suspend any judgment as I understand that the proposal is neither BGGA nor CICE, but something new). I'm only appalled that after a few weeks that the final word of Java 7 had been said with Project Coin (the...
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