Specifications presented for Java 7 and 8

[MacKenze]

Mark Reinhold, chief engineer for Java, Oracle has announced that now the four the next two major versions of Java for Java Specification Requests (JSRs) in the Java Community Process (JCP) have been introduced. You are in the recently introduced B intended Java technologies specify plan. According to this it is envisaged that the JDK 7 mid-2011 without lambda functions, modularity prospective Jigsaw Project and part of Project Coin public. For this is already the end of 2012 followed by a JDK 8, which is in Java 7 left outside components, and more. After Plan A Java 7 had all the new features include the same, but it would be released no earlier than mid-2012.

I am hoping that other members should also provide some information on this topic.

[Pandya]

In the recently presented proposals specification is JSR 334 to the 337th In JSR 334 - Small Enhancements for the Java Programming Language - there are several previously developed techniques Coin Project. the reservoir of small language features are from, inter alia, the extension of the switch statement to string cases, an improved type inference, that diamond-operator the tedious repetition of generic type of the parameter save one, and a special try-block, for the correct release of resources, ensures landed in the JSR.

[Sukhvinder]

The JSR 335 - Lambda Expressions for the Java Programming Language - dedicated to the introduction of closures in the language. The concept comes from functional programming. Meanwhile, also support non-functional languages such as C #, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Smalltalk is the function. Closures reproduce when calling their definition context, even if the context is outside the function no longer exists. The implementation of the specification is part of the OpenJDK already in Lambda Project instead.

[FlayoFish]

The JSR 336 - Java SE 7 Release Contents - provides shell specification is one that other JSRs and Java technologies be introduced into. Among them are such as a new concurrency API, including Fork / Join Framework, a high-performance working with dynamically typed languages (JSR 292), a new file system API (JSR 203), support for Unicode 6.0 and JDBC 4.1 and the introduction of the Nimbus Look-and-feel and JLayer component in the GUI-Swing technology.

[Pollock]

In JSR 337 it more efficient and can run parallel to Java SE 8 Release Contents - land such as a modular system, the Java developers from - "classpath hell" free will, and an extensive framework for Collections. After the JSRs in the JCP were now proposed, it is up to the JCP Executive Committee, to rubber-stamp the proposals or not. The Apache Software Foundation had already pre announced , the proposal to vote against Oracle, if the group is not its licensing strategy in the Java certification required for Test Compatibility Kits (TCKs) change.