By dlinsin
via dlinsin.blogspot.com
Published: May 28 2009 / 22:44
A couple of month ago, Joseph Darcy announced the first six new language features for JDK 7. Yesterday, he posted another 7 proposals, which Sun will take into further consideration. Here are a couple of code snippets from the proposals, which I think will considerably improve my daily coding life as an average Joe developer.
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XML/RDF API for Software Projects
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Add flexibility and variation to applications by sharing a common data model for multiple components
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GCC Explorer - an interactive take on compilation
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Installing MySQL 5.5 Part 2 – Multiple instances with mysqld_multi
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"What makes Evented IO Scale?" Explained in plain english
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Newman API - Contact Forms for Static Websites
Comments
overtheline.myopenid.com replied ago:
MAJOR DISADVANTAGE: The facility can be abused to simulate named parameters,
resulting in loss of type safety. Hopefully people won't do this.
That will be the first thing I will use it for.
slowdarkening replied ago:
So just by using the final keyword I can make the list (or set) immutable? What a mess!
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