Announcing a Java 7 link blog
I’ve been doing weekly updates on Java 7 for about a year now. For a few months now the weekly roundup format has felt a little stale. So I’m killing it. I’m going to continue tracking links but now I’m going to provide these links in a separate tumblr feed. This feed will be almost entirely links, occasionally with a brief description.
I think this gives many of the same benefits as the weekly roundup but with a lot less effort on my part. I will continue to maintain the Java 7 page as I think that gives a great archival view of the discussion around various features. I will also blog occasionally on Java 7 topics that I find particularly interesting and include those in the Java 7 link blog.
A year ago, for no particular reason, I got interested in what was going to be in Java 7 and went hunting for information. At that point, little cohesive information existed and there was no page that really tied together the possible feature space. I was dumb enough to create such a page myself and since then I feel it’s grown into a useful resource. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has sent me links, answered my emails, and generally helped me make this useful. I hope you find the new Java 7 link blog interesting as well…
Hi! My name is Alex Miller and I live in St. Louis. I write code for a living and currently work for 
The weekly roundup is pretty much why I’m here. Do you know anyone else doing a Java 7 weekly roundup type of thing I could tune in to instead? I wish Sun would update https://jdk7.dev.java.net/, or that I could get a Java7 version of http://weblogs.java.net/.
Thanks for keeping it up for so long, and here’s to hoping someone else is equally driven in the future.
Hey Sam, the only other Java 7 related such thing that I know of is a java.net column called “The Open Road” by David Flanagan that was started in August. The inaugural entry sounded promising but has been followed by only a single entry since then in November on building the JDK.
However, maybe you missed the point of my post. I will continue to track all of the same links I used to, with much of the brief commentary, just on an ongoing basis via this blog rather than on a weekly basis in a roundup. I’m not really scaling back any of the content, just changing the delivery mechanism to make it easier and more enjoyable to produce and consume.
Please check it out and drop me your feedback. I’ll experiment with it a bit over the coming weeks.