Oracle Announces Java SE 7

vivin writes "Oracle has announced the release of Java SE 7. This is the first release of Java under the stewardship of Oracle."

Comments

Re:Ubuntu

[wandazulu]

Funny enough, I just set up an Ubuntu box and decided to grab JDK 7 without knowing that today would be the day it was "released". As such, I downloaded it directly from Oracle/Sun/Java/Whatever..

Note, I then installed Eclipse Indigo, which was having some problems with some of the plugins. I added the following line to the eclipse.ini file and the problems went away:

-Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true

Everything's working fine now.

List of features in Java 7

[Necroman]

Oracle has a detailed list of the additions in Java 7. OpenJDK has relatively the same information listed in a different way.

While it took forever to get JDK7 out the door, it's finally out and they can work toward JDK8, which is currently scheduled for release a year from now. The Oracle takeover is said and done and they are able to keep pushing new features into the language now. For all of us that use Java daily, this is a nice change.

I recommend looking over the feature list if you are a java dev. There are some really nice changes to make your day-to-day code just a little easier.