Apple Oracle OpenJDK Announcement

[Mike Swingler]

On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:48 PM, John Rose wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
> 
>> The Mac OS X 10.6 SDK allows us to use blocks (which _greatly_ simplifies interacting with AppKit on the main thread), and has many key pieces of functionality exposed as full Cocoa API (as opposed to using private SPI or Carbon functions).
> 
> Very nice.
> 
> I hope we can eventually map the blocks to method handles instead of interfaces.  The semantic gap is small.  A little sun.misc.Unsafe magic would do the trick.

How are blocks mapped to interfaces?

Curious,
Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.