News could hardly get more exciting than this, for a programming language aficionado! There is now a JEP 286 for Local-Variable Type Inference with status "Candidate". And a request for feedback by Brian Goetz, which I would love to invite you to participate in: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/platform-jep-discuss/2016-March/000037.html Please do so, the survey remains open only from March … Continue reading Java 10’s new Local-Variable Type Inference
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Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lambdas and Sorting
At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we're really into jOOQ's fluent API and query DSL, we're absolutely thrilled about what Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. We have blogged a couple of times about some nice Java 8 goodies, and now we feel it's time to start a new blog series, the... … Continue reading Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lambdas and Sorting
Top 10 Ceylon Language Features I Wish We Had In Java
What does one do when Hibernate is "finished" and feature complete and one needs new challenges? Right. One creates a new JVM language called Ceylon. On November 12, 2013, Ceylon 1.0.0 was finally released and we congratulate the whole team at Red Hat for their achievements in what looks like a very promising new JVM … Continue reading Top 10 Ceylon Language Features I Wish We Had In Java
A Lesser-Known Java 8 Feature: Generalized Target-Type Inference
Going through the list of Java 8 features, Generalized Target-Type Inference struck me as a particularly interesting, lesser-known gem. It looks as though the Java language designers will ease some of the pain that we've been having with generics in the past (Java 5-7). Let's have a look at their example: class List<E> { static … Continue reading A Lesser-Known Java 8 Feature: Generalized Target-Type Inference
Overload API methods with care – the sequel
I had recently blogged about funny issues that arise when overloading API methods with generics involved: https://blog.jooq.org/overload-api-methods-with-care/ I promised a sequel as I have encountered more trouble than that, so here it is. The trouble with generics and varargs Varargs are another great feature introduced in Java 5. While being merely syntactic sugar, you can … Continue reading Overload API methods with care – the sequel