Excerpts will allow the Java community to regroup and concentrate on maintaining a predictable release schedule...
hailed as one of Java 8's major features...
features that are scheduled for that version, such as Project Lambda, which will add useful programming constructs called "closures" to the Java language...
At the time, Reinhold himself admitted that Java 7 contained...
"There is, more importantly, not enough time left for the broad...
It would also have made it easier to scale the Java platform to more...
overwhelming influence over it – his recommendation is likely to carry a lot of weight...
Oracle is moving to drop a major component from its upcoming Java 8...
And who knows? A new Java release every two years might even help...
"It does, however, appear...
that would have allowed Java developers to write and distribute programs as modules...
That will likely be a welcome change for the long-suffering Java community, many of whom have grown...
the language shrug off the ever-more-frequent comparisons to Cobol...
frustrated with Java's seeming inability to evolve to suit the latest programming features and techniques...
no means a pleasant decision," Reinhold writes...
Java 8, which Reinhold once touted as a "revolutionary" update to the platform...
"no really earth-shattering, ground-breaking kinds of features...
release, in an effort to get the flagging Java development process back on track...
revised that date at its JavaOne conference in October 2011...
The component, known as Project Jigsaw, was an addition to the language...
" evaluation, review, and feedback which such a profound change to the Platform demands...
be moved to an explicit two-year release cycle...
of the world: It will be on the next train, which will also leave at a predictable time," Reinhold writes...
"If a major feature misses its intended release train then that’s unfortunate but it’s not the end...
The original plan was to ship it in 2012, but Oracle...
Given Reinhold's stature in the community, however – not to mention Oracle's...
already running late...
On Tuesday, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group at Oracle, wrote in a blog post that despite repeated promises that Project...
" Java 8 is...
"Steady progress is being made, but some...
The Java community is...
significant technical challenges remain," Reinhold writes...
It will also mean that the Java language won't have a built-in module system...
types of hardware, ranging from large servers to small embedded devices...
If the move is approved, it will be a significant step backward for...
To that end, he proposes that JDK development...
getting used to such promises, however...
shipped without some of the more ambitious technologies proposed for it...
Reinhold says that dropping Project Jigsaw from the Java 8 release will allow the community to concentrate on finishing the other new...
Because development of the Java platform is a community-based process, any decision...
to be the best available option...
It took five years to bring Java 7 to market, and it, too,...
Jigsaw would be included in Java 8, it is no longer feasible to have the technology ready in time for that version's planned September 2013 ship date...
until Java 9 at the earliest, which isn't scheduled to arrive until September 2015...
At the time, Project Jigsaw was still...
"Deferring Project Jigsaw to 2015 is by...
to drop Project Jigsaw from Java 8 will have to be approved by the Java SE 8 Expert Group...
" The other important benefit of dropping Project Jigsaw from Java 8, Reinhold says, is that it...
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