On 15 December 2010 01:34, Joe Darcy <joe.da...@oracle.com> wrote: > Greetings. > > The JDK 7 build has been using -source 7 for some time, but to date use of > new language features has been informal and incidental. Supporting Project > Coin and JSR 334, Stuart Marks will be leading a "minting" exercise over the > JDK code base to systematically update the JDK libraries to take advantage > of the Project Coin language features. Efforts will be focused on the src > and test portions of the jdk repository of the JDK 7 forest. [1] The first > features to be rolled into the code will be diamond and strings in switch. > > Review requests for different areas will be sent to the appropriate OpenJDK > aliases for review. The proposed changes will consist solely of conversions > of existing code to use a new language feature. While use of the new > features is encouraged, in areas of the platform where code is kept > synchronized with earlier release trains, such code cannot be updated to use > the Project Coin features at this time. > > For several years, we've been collaborating with the NetBeans team to > provide IDE support for the Project Coin features. NetBeans 7 Beta [2] is > the latest release to support Project Coin, as detailed in its release > notes. [3] We will continue to coordinate with the NetBeans team to update > the Project Coin support in NetBeans as refinements are made to the Project > Coin features. Additionally, to allow use of NetBeans for JDK development, > we will defer updating the JDK to use a Coin feature until there is matching > support in a NetBeans build, as there is now for diamond and strings in > switch. (The NetBeans 7 Beta supports a slightly older version of > multi-catch and try-with-resources. [4][5]) > > -Joe > > [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7 > [2] http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/ > [3] http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB70#JDK7_support > [4] http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_improving_multi_catch > [5] > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2010-November/002933.html > >
Are there any similar plans to target Java 5 features like generics? A lot of the code still produces warnings -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
