Java7的蜕变

  在Devoxx2009上Sun宣布将在Java7中增加闭包功能，并且将Java7的发布推迟到2010年年底。  

这一决定不免让人有些担忧,因为Java7的发布时间被一推再推,按照3年一个版本的话Java7 在2008

年末或2009年初就该发布了.JCP在许可证和技术上的分歧再加上Sun已经日薄西山,大规模的裁员会

不会使得本来就流失了许多大师级人物的开发团队雪上加霜.不说也罢,还是先看看Java7的一些既定目

标:

    Modularity

• Project Jigsaw YES
• JSR 294 Superpackages YES
• JSR 277 Java Module System NO
• Java Kernel Java 6u10

Libraries

• JSR 203 NIO2 YES
• JSR 275 Units and Quantities HMM
• JSR 310 Date and Time API HMM
• JSR 107 Cache API NO
• JSR 166 Concurrency Utilities YES
• JSR 225 XQuery API for Java YES?
• JSR 284 Resource Consumption Management NO
• Miscellaneous Library Changes

Swing

• JSR 296 Swing Application Framework YES
• JSR 295 Beans Binding NO
• JSR 303 Beans Validation HMM
• Java Media Components YES?

JMX

• JSR 255 JMX 2.0 YES
• JSR 262 Web Services Connector for JMX YES

Tools

• JSR 326 Post mortem JVM Diagnostics API NO
• JSR 260 Javadoc Technology Update NO

  Types and Generics

• Reified Generics NO
• Type Literals NO
• JSR 308 Annotations on Java Types YES
• Type Inference YES

Language Proposals

• Closures NO
• Automatic Resource Management Blocks NO
• Language level XML support NO
• JavaBean property support NO

Miscellaneous Language

• BigDecimal operator support NO
• Strings in switch statements HMM
• Comparisons for Enums HMM
• Chained invocations NO?
• Extension methods NO?
• Improved catch YES
• Null-safe handling YES
• Suggestions

JVM

• JSR 292 Dynamic language support YES
• Tiered compilation HMM
• G1 garbage collector YES
• More script engines YES

 

 再加上JavaEE 6 的规范实在让我们这些菜鸟级的程序员望洋兴叹......

还是不说了去该吃饭了!

参考文章:

              http://tech.puredanger.com/java7

              http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/04/java-closures-update

              http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhp95vd_8f8zkn3

              http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhp95vd_6hg3qhc