By bloid
via ordinaryjava.blogspot.com
Published: Jul 21 2008 / 08:36
I’ve been checking the upcoming features of Java 7 and found a cool detailed list here. Also, some Java One 2008 slides from Danny Coward’s presentation show a little on that too.
Among the JSRs mentioned in the first link, I already had checked some stuff from JSRs 277, 294, concerning Java Modules, JSR 284, concerning resource consumption and JSRs 295, 296 and 303 concerning Swing.
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osbald replied ago:
Tell me about it. The main reason I've been looking forward to the JavaFX SDK is the slim hope it'll free some developers up to start working on the JSRs and Swing again. JSR 296 has another problem here in that it was supposed to make writing Swing applications easier, but now that baton will be passed to JavaFX. I don't know - but I doubt the JSRs nor Swing will see the same levels of enthusiasm and investment that JavaFX has enjoyed so far and will continue to demand if it has any hope of succeeding (lack of tooling for one). If not from malice, then just a pure resourcing issue amid the resignations the teams already suffered, lay-offs and rumours of 'forced' vacations.
Romain Guys comments hit the mark for me last week: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=234900#308940 - a kick in the teeth, but only because deep down I know he's probably right.
osbald replied ago:
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