Comments on: Java 7 Update

By: Tuomas Kiviaho

Tuomas Kiviaho — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:37:23 +0000

@Alex: I noticed that JSR-275 has also inactive status just like JSR-296.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:07:14 +0000

@Eric: Ha, that is crazy. While I’m sure there is some such schedule somewhere I can’t imagine it being made public. At this point, we’re still really guessing as to what will actually be included. I’m studying and reading the tea leaves more than most but technically the platform JSR will make things concrete. Most of the JDK modifications mentioned above have an existing spec, an expert group, and a functioning implementation, so in that sense they are relatively mature. The modularity stuff is still in heavy flux and the small language changes are really just getting started. The JVM dynamic language work is all occurring in the Da Vinci machine project and that plus the tracking make it relatively visible.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:58:58 +0000

This is gonna sound crazy (and maybe sound a little like a manager type talking) but does anyone out there somewhere have any sort of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and/or “Project” Schedule showing all the expected components and their status (% complete, planned time, etc) for Java7? If such a thing existed then people could track the progress of the whole thing a little easier.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:21:43 +0000

@Karsten: I was mildly surprised too. Mark Reinhold said at Devoxx in Dec 08 that it would be included. And Danny Coward repeated that on his blog recently, so I’m assuming something will be in Java 7.

By: Karsten Lentzsch

Karsten Lentzsch — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:49:57 +0000

I doubt that the JSR 296 will be in Java 7. There’s no activity in the EG nor in the public appframework.dev.java.net project.