Java 9 arriverà nel settembre del prossimo anno, secondo quanto annunciato da Oracle.

Chief Java Architect Mark Reinhold recently proposed a new schedule for Java 9 milestones, now on the JDK 9 project page

• 10 December 2015: Feature Complete
• 04 February 2016: All Tests Run
• 25 February 2016: Rampdown Start
• 21 April 2016: Zero Bug Bounce
• 16 June 2016: Rampdown Phase 2
• 21 July 2016: Final Release Candidate
• 22 September 2016: General Availability

Java 9 will introduce a modularized JDK, which means developers will be able to load smaller amounts of code when running applications that donít require the entire environment. This will enable Java to scale from small devices to large software systems while providing a secure platform.

Rilasciata la versione 7.0.1 di NetBeans, la nuova versione è certificata per la versione finale di Java 7 rilasciata qualche giorno fa. NetBeans 7.0 era stato rilasciato ad aprile. Le note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina, il download è possibile da questa pagina.

NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 is an update to NetBeans IDE 7.0 and includes the following changes:

• Full certification on the final release of JDK 7
• Bundle GlassFish 3.1.1 update release
• WebLogic related enhancements
• Significant quality increase

The following updates to the 7.0 release also apply to 7.0.1:

• Oracle Database improvements
• HTML5 editing support
• Maven 3 is supported and bundled with the IDE
• Improved support for CDI, REST services, Java Persistence, and Bean Validation
• PHP Rename Refactoring
• Line wrapping
• Improved detection of external changes (native file system listening)
• Updates to the C/C++ support (remote file system browsing, library projects running/debugging, enhanced templates/specializations)
• Support for Git 1.7.х
• Additional enhancements are listed at the NetBeans IDE 7.0 page

Come anticipato Oracle ha rilasciato Java SE 7 (Java Standard Edition 7) a fine luglio. Java 7 è la prima versione di Java gestita interamente da Oracle, ed è stata accompagnata da vivaci polemiche. Download della nuova versione di Java (JDK e JRE) a partire da questa pagina.

Java SE 7 delivers:

• Language changes to help increase developer productivity and simplify common programming tasks by reducing the amount of code needed, clarifying syntax and making code easier to read. (JSR 334: Project Coin)
• Improved support for dynamic languages (including: Ruby, Python and JavaScript), resulting in substantial performance increases on the JVM. (JSR 292: InvokeDynamic)
• A new multicore-ready API that enables developers to more easily decompose problems into tasks that can then be executed in parallel across arbitrary numbers of processor cores. (JSR 166: Fork/Join Framework)
• A comprehensive I/O interface for working with file systems that can access a wider array of file attributes and offer more information when errors occur. (JSR 203: NIO.2)
• New networking and security features
• Expanded support for internationalization, including Unicode 6.0 support
• Updated versions of numerous libraries

Il rilascio di Java 7 EE (Enterprise Edition) è previsto per il terzo trimestre del 2012.

Dopo che Java 7 si avvia al suo rilascio finale entro l'estate Oracle ha invitato la comunità a partecipare alla pianificazione di Java 8 con un messaggio sulla mailing list di OpenJDK.

It's time to start thinking about planning JDK 8. We already know what some of the big-ticket items are likely to be. There'll be room for other features too, however, both large and small. It's therefore time to define a simple process for collecting, sorting, reviewing, and prioritizing proposals and plans for new features, for JDK 8 and for later releases.

JDK 7 "ha raggiunto la fase successiva di sviluppo il 23 dicembre e può ormai essere considerata Feature Complete", anche se in ritardo rispetto ai tempi previsti e nonostante le polemiche che hanno accompagnato l'approvazione delle specifiche, è quanto scrive Henrik Ståhl sul suo blog

The JDK 7 project has reached Feature Complete (FC). This means that development and QA have finished all planned feature and test development work in the release and are moving the focus to testing and bug fixing on all supported JDK 7 platforms. This is a major step towards JDK 7 General Availability (GA) and implies that we are tracking close to the plan published on openjdk.java.net.

Le tecnologie complementari potranno essere integrate successivamente nel JDK. Tra queste JAXP (Java API for XML Processing), JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding), JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services) e JMX (Java Management Extensions). Tuttavia non ci si attende che la gestione di queste possa avere un impatto negativo sul piano di rilascio di JDK 7.

Per il prossimo 17 febbraio dovrebbe essere disponibile la Developer Preview di JDK 7, mentre la versione finale dovrebbe essere disponibile per il 28 luglio.