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 ...

Java is back on track. The first major release of the Java development environment since Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems became generally available today. Java SE 7 includes the culmination of years ...

It’s been a long time coming, Java SE 7. After years of development, one major company acquisition and at least a hundred thousand discussions over the future of Java, yesterday Oracle and the OpenJDK ...

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).

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 ...

In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the company announced Thursday. This is the ...

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 ...

Oracle today announced the release of several new Java software packages, including the new Java SE 7 Update 6 that brings full support for Java SE 7 to OS X for the first time. The release follows ...

Oracle's newly released Java 7 runtime is relatively painless to install and uninstall. The Java SE 6 runtime that has shipped with past versions of OS X and which has been available on-demand for ...

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 ...