Bill Venners interviews Stephen Colebourne in Java To Get Closures in JDK 7:
At the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium, Sun's Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to Java in JDK 7. In this interview, Stephen Colebourne, coauthor of the FCM closures proposal, gives his perspective on this surprise announcement.
One year ago, Mark Reinhold, Principal Engineer at Sun Microsys
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This past week's poll suggests that Java User Groups have a substantial impact and play an important organizational role within the Java developer community...
Joe Darcy wrote about Project Coin: Milestone 5 Language Features in NetBeans:
To go along with the language changes available in JDK 7 milestone 5, the NetBeans team has created a
developer build of NetBeans supporting the same set of language changes, including improved integer literals, the diamond operator, and strings in switch. In addition to just accepting the new syntax, the NetBeans b
Java Champion Stephen Chin has posted his Devoxx University Slides:
My Devoxx university session yesterday was packed, which was awesome! It was 3 hours of hard-core JavaFX knowledge, and almost everyone stayed for the duration. Aaron Houston got a great shot of the venue (more on the Java Champions site). I posted my slides on SlideShare, so check it out when you get a chance. Special thank
Here is a raw recording of the JUG BOF at DEVOXX with James Recording. Detailed list of topics discussed by timeline of the MP3 recording. MP3 is 19MB to download and is 40+ min long.
Today, a tantalizing announcement by Mark Reinhold about closures in Java 7 has made its way through the twittersphere. On the same day, Neal Gafter updated his closures proposal. Here are some use cases and my unbiased opinion on this proposal. No lambdas have been harmed in the writing of this blog article.
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Related Linksjava.net Pollsjava.net CommunitiesSpotlightsJosh Marinacci's has created a new JavaFX open source interactive artwork project, Project MaiTai: "What is MaiTai? MaiTai is an open source tool for building interactive artwork. You create interesting sketches by wiring different blocks together with lines. There are blocks to produce graphics, process mouse and keyboard inputs, connect to webservices, and perform complex graphical transformations. The end result is limited only by your imagination. MaiTai can export a Java Webstart application or a QuickTime movie..."
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