Vaclav's not-often-used blog

A lot of people migrate to Java from various languages and they bring to Java their ideas how the language should look like. I switched to Java several years ago from C++ and also thought there is something missing in Java. I missed the overloaded operators and some other things. But after few months I no longer missed them and even wouldn't like them to be included in Java.

This migration leads to many suggestions how to "improve" Java language in many different ways. So I would like publish series of posts that explain how I feel about the changes proposed for Java 7. Why I think they are good or bad. And think over whether the features can be done in a better way (from my point of view of course).

I plan to write about these "issues":

• Closures
  
• Properties
  
• Enhanced try-catch-finally
  
• Super packages (JSR 294)
  
• Java Module System (JSR 277)
  
• Swing Application Framework (JSR 296)
  
• Beans Binding (JSR 295)
  
• Beans Validation (JSR 303)
  
• Units and Quantities (JSR 275)
  
• JVM level changes
  
• what I miss in Java 7
  

If you feel there is also something else I should write about, let me know.