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Oracle confirms the arrival of JDK 7

Oracle recently reiterated its commitment to Java at the EclipseCon 2010 is currently taking place in California.

Former Sun, Jeet Kaul - now vice president of Oracle - and Steve Harris, also vice-president of the society, have made frequent statements to this effect during the event.

For Kaul, "the key to the success of Java is its platform," referring to GlassFish, the server reference implementation of Java EE 6.

GlassFish have it continued, should also find an update later this year.

The next GlassFish 3.1 will offer features clustering and replication states. Virtualization will be provided in another update of GlassFish, scheduled for first half 2011.

Both spokesmen Oracle also revealed that the forthcoming Java Development Kit, aka JDK 7, would be the main new modularity, according to Kaul, should allow better performance and should be more scalable and ... modular.

For information, modularity was part of the Java Specification Request 294 in number compared with the version of JDK 7. Additional features result from the JSR 203, providing APIs for I / O, and 292, which advocates support for typed dynamic languages on the Java platform. Java EE 6 had also insisted on modularity.

Finally, Jeet Kaul ended his address by promising the audience that there would have a Java EE 7

Source : developpez.com