Most people probably all ready noticed that this blog has been pretty quiet for a while. But that doesn’t mean that there is not much going on in the java/oracle world !
For instance, today Oracle announced to take-over sun ! Last weeks rumors were all around, about IBM trying to buy Sun, but it turns out that Oracle won the fight.
So actually when last year we merged our oracle and java blog into one blog, we were just ahead of the curve

See this link for more info on the takeover http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

On the other hand there has been a lot of fuzz about the release of java 7, for instance closures are not likely to enter java after all in java 7, but all kinds of other things are. See this link for more information about java 7 . Also take notice of project coin where developers brought in some very interesting ideas (small improvements) for the new java version.

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