Friday 22 March 2013

JDK8 will be released at 9th September 2013

We will get Lambdas, new DataTime API, default implementations in the interfaces, static references to the methods, Stream interface with Map Reduce operations on Collections, removal of Permanent Generation in the Heap, repeating annotations, annotations on type use, Nashorn - new JavaScript engine and some smaller changes.
You can see examples here: https://github.com/awislowski/jdk8

Thursday 21 March 2013

Sunday 10 March 2013

Red Hat Assumes Leadership of OpenJDK 6 Community

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it has transitioned into a leadership role for the OpenJDK 6 project, effectively extending support for the technology and its users.
Read more here: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2013/3/red-hat-reinforces-java-commitment