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Java 7: What's In It For Developers

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look-under-the-hood dept.

GMGruman writes "After five years of a torturous political process and now under the new ownership of Oracle, Java SE 7 is finally out (and its initial bugs patched in the Update 1 release). So what does it actually offer? Paul Krill surveys the new capabilities that matter most for Java developers, from dynamic language support to an improved file system."

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  1. Re:A language with a file system? by iggymanz · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's just improvements to the I/O API. Java has the New IO API for doing I/O. java 7 has extended it, hence NIO2. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-nio2-1/?ca=drs-

  2. Re:One day we will be done with java... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While you are busy being a jackass and letting us all know you have never made a single mistake EVER with resource allocation, some of us have work to do and enjoy the fact that we will never have to type try{openFile}catch(DamnException){}finally{try{closeFile}catch(AotherDamnException){}} ever again.

  3. Re:Devs can now be more lazy by ApplicativeJones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. Let's shun all advances in programming language design, because they make it too hard to use languages without them.

    Man, imagine what'd happen if you ever ran into a programming language with a good design. There are some out there that are actually pretty good. Of course, no language is perfect - or even close. But people who resist making things better just because it makes defects in existing languages more obvious is doing themselves, and the entire field of software engineering, a disservice.