A announcement by an Oracle architect and an IBM engineer that IBM will be joining OpenJDK. IBM promised to bring significant bugfixes and performance improvements. Oracle stated Java is their highest priority because they have so much invested into and depending on it. They also stated they are still very much in competition with each other and that Java's future is secure.
Some details on Java 7:
- to be released end of July 2011 - developer release available now
- introduces switch on String
- the initialization of a new genericized variable need not specify the generic, e.g. Collection<Foo> c = new ArrayList<>();
- I/O simplification, e.g. ResourceStream automatically closes
- improved fork/join operations when developing for multiple core CPUs
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