Fwd: please review draft JEP: Convenience Factory Methods for Collections

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi All,

Interesting proposal that's more in the Java Developer user space.  Please
feedback comments to core-libs!

Cheers,
Martijn


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com>
Date: 17 July 2014 01:46
Subject: please review draft JEP: Convenience Factory Methods for
Collections
To: core-libs-dev <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>


Hi all,

Please review this draft JEP for Convenience Factory Methods for
Collections:

    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8048330

Brief background: several times over the years there have been proposals to
add "collection literals" to the language. The most recent round of this
was in regard to JEP 186, a research JEP to explore this topic. That effort
was concluded by Brian Goetz, as summarized in this email:

    http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2014-March/011938.html

Essentially, the idea of adding collection literals to the language was set
aside in favor of adding some library APIs, not entirely unlike collection
literals, that make it more convenient to create collections. That's what
this proposal is.

Share and enjoy,

s'marks