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The other week, Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, posted two possibilities for the release of JDK 7 on his blog. The response he got was overwhelmingly for Plan B - Release JDK 7 in mid 2011 / JDK 8 in late 2012. This means the current plans for the next JDK have been split into two with JDK 7 now likely to feature:

• InvokeDynamic byte code and supporting features for dynamic languages
• Fork/Join Framework and related concurrency and collections API enhancements for improved multi-threaded Java code
• Small Language Enhancements (most of "Project Coin") for higher developer productivity and cleaner, more concise Java code
• Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) support
• New I/O APIs - A flexible filesystem API, and asynchronous I/O
• Support for updated standards - Unicode, localization, security, cryptography, XML and JDBC
• JVM performance improvements

It’s Plan B for Java originally appeared on About.com Focus on Java on Friday, September 24th, 2010 at 20:42:13.

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