Interview with Mark Reinhold Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded at JavaOne 2010 - an interview with Mark Reinhold all about Java 7, Java 8, Plan B and beyond.

• Mark Reinhold
  • http://blogs.sun.com/mr/
• Plan B
  • http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/plan_b
• Roadmap/Milestones
  • http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/

• Features in JDK 7 / JDK 8

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2010/09/09/puny-java-7-isnt-end-world
  • SAM - Single Abstract Method
  • http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/07/sambdas-in-java
  • Reification
  • http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
  • Continuations
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation
  • Tail Calls
  • http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/tail_calls_in_the_vm

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