I have read the Article on Java 7 & the features it provides. I learned that it supports Dynamic Language . Any comments or discussions on this topic would eventually be more helpful for me as well as for others. Thanks in Advance. ... more »

Oracle’s release of JDK 7 is expected to occur this coming Fall. This new release will offer a suite of new features for you to learn. In Part 4 of this four-part series, Jeff Friesen presents the next generation of New I/O.... more »

Well, the JDK7 Project is underway, and despite the fact that I am being moved into the .NET world for some new projects, I wanted to leave some parting thoughts with the Java community. By no means do I consider myself the ultimate authority on the following topics, however, these are a few things that I propose would make Java a better, more friendly, more flexible language.... more »

I would like to know if FileDialog is planned to be fixed in Java 7 to contain all the features of the native FileDialog. I couln't find anything in the release notes of Java 7. I've talked about this over and over but no one seems to answer. http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=233718 Can anyone from the AWT/Swing team give us a status please? Guys if you're interested in improving FileDialog vote for this bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6192906 ... more »

The polls have closed and the results are in. That is, the results for the JCP Final Approval Ballot for JSR 268 (Java Smart Card I/O API). You can read the detailed results on the JCP web site. This happened in sync with the vote on the JDK 6 platform JSRs as explained in Danny's blog. I am also happy to report that this election cost some 2.8 billion USD less than a certain other election ;-)... more »

A few weeks ago I posted an entry that explained what superpackages are about. This is a continuation that deals with nested superpackages. If you have not read the first post, read it before continuing. As a reminder, the short version is: a superpackage is a language construct for information hiding [1].... more »

We just posted the first source drop of the OpenJDK Modules project on the project page. The Modules project covers the implementation of JSR 277 and JSR 294 and you now have a chance to get a really early look at it, try it out, and contribute to it.... more »

As you have have already noticed, the JCP Early Draft specification of JSR 294 is now available for download from the JSR page.... more »

The Closures for Java prototype now allows a closure to access mutated local variables from an enclosing scope. You can download the prototype here. You can also download the sources for the rewritten parts of Doug Lea's fork-join library, ported to use function types. It is a good example of how APIs can be affected by these language changes. Personally, I find the API simplifications to be quite compelling. If you're on the fence about function types, I recommend you have a look. Any feedback you may have is most welcome!... more »

First, it was Closures. (If you do not understand the proposal after 2 reads, fret not - you aren't dumb. Its just that you deserve a simpler alternative.) And now its the Properties syntax that's taken center stage. We might next have a language extension where a special syntax like will make the runtime play a random MP3 from your favorite playlist. Cool, huh?... more »