In the posts JDK 7: New Interfaces, Classes, Enums, and Methods and Groovy Script for Comparing Javadoc Versions, I looked at using Groovy to identify Java constructs new to Java 7 documentation. To ...

Official specifications for upcoming releases of Java have been approved by an executive committee of the JCP (Java Committee Process), although the votes were not unanimous. JSR (Java Specification ...

Oracle's recent release of the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 Update 6 (Java SE 7 U6) is available on Mac OS X -- that includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the Java Development Kit (JDK).

Oracle is releasing a technology preview of Java SE 7 on Mac OS X and said it plans to release Java SE 7 on Mac OS X for developers in the second quarter of 2012 and a consumer version later that year ...

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Java 7 certainly had its time, but it's time to prepare for the future. Oracle has been trying to implement Java 8 and 11 and make it the norm, however, there are always developers that keep using ...

When Apple said last month that it was deprecating its version of the Java runtime, some worried about Java’s future on Mac OS X. Worry no more: Apple has announced that it’s partnering with Oracle to ...

Oracle announced on Tuesday that it will start offering direct downloads and auto-updates to Java on OS X beginning with the release of Java Standard Edition 7 Update 6. Users can download the Java ...

The Apache Lucene project has reported that the Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7) release "contains hotspot compiler optimizations" that "miscompile some loops," which can cause the JVMs in ...