Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: JDK 1.7 new features Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:28:41 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 18 Message-ID: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6656 I was pleased to see some features is JDK 1.7 that I had been asking for since JDK 1.1. I'm surprised at how little there is new in 1.7. I guess the recession made Oracle really pull in their horns. It is mostly just a little syntatic sugar in the compiler. binary literals. underscores in literals to make them easier to proofread string case labels catch can handle multiple Exceptions. I would think the biggest priority for 1.8 would be unifying arrays and generics. They should be compatible, even if it means giving up type erasure. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Most of computer code is for telling the computer what do if some very particular thing goes wrong.