Blogging at the speed of thought

The improved varargs warnings, part of the Coin proposal finally made into the latest JDK 7 build. I believe build 123 is special as this milestone marks the completion of all the planned JSR 334 features (the head side of the Coin) scheduled for implementation in Java SE 7. So, Coin minting done? I think [...]

Last November, Mark Reinhold announced that Closures will be added to the Java language and six months later we had an initial prototype based on the Straw-Man proposal and last month’s update was considered a significant progress for the language in years. As mentioned in Mark’s post, “Working with parallel arrays in Java, unfortunately, requires [...]

One of the primary uses of Lambda expressions is to implement aggregate operations that can often be parallelized using multi-core processors we have today. The computation over bulk data structures is an area where Lambda expressions provide much needed support where part of the computation is caller defined. Doug Lea’s JSR166y Concurrency interest group exactly [...]

Recently, Brian Goetz published modified draft of the Lambda proposal. This draft is mature in terms of the direction where Lambda is heading for in the Java world and introduces some breaking changes from earlier draft to align with this direction. While there are few things that need to be sorted out, this draft is [...]

Project Coin includes the following proposals that will make into Java 7. – Binary literals and underscores in literals – Strings in switch – Simplified Varargs Method Invocation – Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation (Diamond) – Improved Exception Handling for Java – try-with-resources (ARM) I have briefly touched upon try-with-resources construct in my [...]

Try-with-resources (originally known as Automatic Resource Management) is one of the Project Coin proposals that made its way into recent JDK 7 builds. Traditionally, developers had to manually terminate any resources (Files, Database connections, etc) they use in their applications and sometimes it was painful to keep track of those things and failing to do [...]