IBM highlights the Java 7 up and coming features

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20 points·alrex021··7 comments

The things here look somewhat cool. It's too bad that the title is about as unappealing as you can get. What hacker is really going to be interested in "Java technology, IBM style"? You might as well just say "COBOL technology, Microsoft style".

My bad. I copied the title as it was on the post itself. Hopefully it is now somewhat more meaningful.

Shouldn't Oracle be hyping up the new Java 7 features (coming soon at only $1999/seat)?

No, they'll release Java 7.0.0.1 for free. If you want security updates and other bug fixes just fork over a couple grand for a Jmetalink account.

Tongue-in-cheek, obviously. IBM's implementation is generally a good one as well, and is likely to always be free, which should keep Oracle doing the same.

Keep in mind that JDK7 (and a version of JDK6) is open sourced and GPL licensed at this point.

The real news here is JVM 7 not Java 7. "Java 7 will provide improvements that allow implementers of compilers for dynamically typed languages to produce implementations for the Java runtime more easily, and for those implementations to run at much greater performance."

That's very good news for users of Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Jython, and other languages > Java 7

I hope they don't forget to include the "released and available for use" feature. IBM seemed to forget about this for over a year after Sun had released JDK5.

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