Comments on: What Java 7 will mean to you

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:42:17 +0000

The most noticeable thing about Java 7 is the performance. And i found this blog on Benchmark 1.5 1.6 1.7 which shows where we are heading

By: Antonio Dieguez

Antonio Dieguez — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:12:11 +0000

very nice. I checked the startup and the programs start faster. But, they use clearly more memory, at least the windows task bar shows that (am not memory usage expert though), this in comparison with java 1.5.0_15 (am I outdated?..)

By: Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:59:35 +0000

While the JSR-310 development has been informed by JodaTime, it is a new API.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:25:01 +0000

There are rarely changes at the JVM level and certainly none that I know of that would affect Terracotta. Some of the JSR 292 stuff introduces some new capabilities that we are hoping to take advantage (things like interface injection) but that’s a ways off.

We do instrument a few parts of the JDK like the collection classes and those occasionally need some cleanup for version-specific things. We detect the version and do the appropriate thing for the current version.

By: Paul Wujek

Paul Wujek — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:46:56 +0000

I am a newbie with Terracotta, and in this case I was wondering whether the different GC clashed in any way with Terracotta’s function. Based on your answer I guess that the answer is ‘no’.

Are there any proposed changes to Java or the JVM that would require Terracotta to be modified (leading to version dependencies)?