Re-thinking JDK 7

David Herron david at davidherron.com
Wed Sep 8 11:10:50 PDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Ismael Juma <mlists at juma.me.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM, David Herron <david at davidherron.com>
> wrote:
> > I know from my past work that the umbrella JSR and JCP approval was
> required
> > in order to call it 'Java n' (for all previous values of n).  You did use
> > the phrase 'JDK n' rather than 'Java n' which might or might not have
> > significance.  Namely JDK is the name of Su..er..Oracle's product which
> > implements the Java platform.
>
> From the part of Mark's email that you quoted:
>
> "(As always, our intent is that JDK 7 will ship concurrently with a Java
> SE 7 JSR, and likewise for JDK 8 and Java SE 8, and also that there
> will be JSRs for Lambda and Coin.)"
>
> I think that addresses the question, no?
>
> Best,
> Ismael
>

Whoops, you're right, I missed that.

+ David


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