On May 26, 11:35 am, Arved Sandstrom<dces...@hotmail.com> wrote:
ClassCastException wrote:
On Tue, 25 May 2010 19:36:47 -0400, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 25-05-2010 18:57, ClassCastException wrote:
Is JDK 7 really on the way, or is it just another Duke Nukem Forever or
Half-Life 3 -- that is to say, vaporware?
Because I swear it's been like *years* since I first heard mention of
it and JDK 6 still seems to be current.
It has been a long time underway.
But people are working on it.
And eventually it will come out.
Lot of people are unhappy with the speed, but ...
Anyway - Java is so mature so there are very few must haves missing and
for each nice to have there are 7 different opinions on how to
implement.
Oh, lovely, so it will be another six months to six years in coming and,
when (if) it finally does show up, it will have "designed by committee"
written all over it?
Maybe it's best to just stick with JDK 6 then. :)
Even better, continue working with JDK 6, and if you're a
dyed-in-the-wool JVM person, expand your programming horizons with Scala
or Clojure. For example, if you're working with J2EE on Weblogic, but
see a problem that is really better addressed using functional code,
write that portion using Scala, for example.
JDK 7, among other things, is supposed to provide features that should
benefit functional and dynamic languages, so Scala and Clojure could
theoretically take advantage of JDK 7, too.
With the JDK open sourced, nothing stops you from downloading it and
trying the new features, and complain with the committee who's
designing them ;)