Looking Ahead to Java 7.0

submited by krishnas on Mon Aug 13th, 2007

Editor's Note: With this installment, we kick off a new column, "The Open Road," by Java in a Nutshell author David Flanagan. Our mission for this column is to provide visibility into the open source development of the next version of Java, which is happening here on java.net. In this article, David looks at the state of the OpenJDK and JDK 7 projects, proposed language changes that may appear in Java 7, and prominent APIs that are being developed for possible inclusion in Java 7. Each future installment will provide an update on what's currently happening in the latest builds from the project, along with a deep dive into a new feature or API that's tracking for inclusion in Java 7 (David discusses some of these in this first installment). We hope you'll enjoy this early exposure to the next version of Java, and that you'll be encouraged to download, build, and/or run the various Java 7-related projects hosted on java.net.

Topic: java java7