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State of the OpenJDK Project and Java 7

Posted by Zonk on from the heading-out-to-meet-new-people dept.

LarsWestergren writes "David Flanagan, the author of Java in a Nutshell, has a nice writeup on the state of the open source development of the next version of Java. The article explains the difference between the JDK7 and the OpenJDK projects and how to join them. Furthermore, it has an overview of the release schedule, proposed language changes and projects of interest. A more technical and in-depth tracking of the language changes and proposed new features can be found at Alex Miller's blog. This is the first in a series, and '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.'"

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  1. Java 7? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm still waiting on a non-broken implementation of Java 6 for my iBook.

  2. Swing Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can Swing please be replaced with something that doesn't suck in terms of performance? Can it also look halfway decent? That theme is hideous and the "Native" Look&Feel looks even worse.

  3. Bah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The only open source java project worth noting these days is GCJ.

    Anything deriving from Sun's JVM is over. Done. Good riddance.

  4. yuo Fail it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    nearly two years cuntwipes Jordan your spare time are the 1mportant gains market share BSD has always consider that ri6ht Live and a job to Then Jordan Hubbard

  5. Java Fixes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Java Developers, can you consider fixing the following:

    1. Poor non-standard IEEE floating point support. Thx! (Your C/C++ Friends)
    2. Piss-Poor Performance of your virtual machine (Your Turing Friends)
    3. Can you trim down the distribution to under 100+Mb? I shouldn't need 230Mb of cruft for 'hello world'
    4. Can you at least consider standardization? Even Some Open-Source language standardization?
    5. Fix backwards compat issues? I shouldn't need Java 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 for 3 differnent 'hello world' applications.

    Thanks, you friends who still code in real lanugages.