JDK 7... este mes!!

Aca les dejo parte del post original de Oracle, sobre el nuevo release del JDK:

Java 7 (codename Dolphin^[48]) is an upcoming major update to Java, releasing on July 28, 2011(07.28.2011).^[49] The development period is organized into thirteen milestones; on February 18, 2011, milestone 13, the last milestone was reached.^[50][51] Multiple builds, which generally include enhancements and bug fixes, are released per milestone. The Feature list at the Open JDK 7 project lists many of the expected feature changes.
The expected feature additions for Java 7^[52]

• JVM support for dynamic languages, following the prototyping work currently done on the Multi Language Virtual Machine
• Compressed 64-bit pointers^[53] Available in Java 6 with -XX:+UseCompressedOops
• Language changes under Project Coin.^[54][55] The features accepted for inclusion in Project Coin are:

• Strings in switch^[56]
• Automatic resource management^[57]
• Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation^[58]
• Simplified Varargs Method Invocation^[59]
• Better integral literals allowing for underscores as digit separators

• Concurrency utilities under JSR 166^[60]
• New file I/O library to enhance platform independence and add support for metadata and symbolic links. The new packages are java.nio.file and java.nio.file.attribute^[61][62]
• Library-level support for Elliptic curve cryptography algorithms
• An XRender pipeline for Java 2D, which improves handling of features specific to modern GPUs
• New platform APIs for the graphics features originally planned for release in Java version 6u10
• Enhanced library-level support for new network protocols, including SCTP and Sockets Direct Protocol
• Upstream updates to XML and Unicode

Lambda, Jigsaw, and part of Coin were dropped from Java 7. Java 8 will be implemented with the remaining features in late 2012.

Otros links de interés:

• Java.net (ja ja ja ja... no es contradicción de términos)
• JDK release
• Open JDK