Re-thinking JDK 7

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

Thanks to everyone who responded, both directly and indirectly.  The
voluminous feedback was strongly -- though not universally -- in favor
of Plan B.  As of today that is the plan of record for JDK 7 and JDK 8.

I’ve updated the feature list [1] to reflect this decision.  A new
milestone schedule [2] will be posted shortly.

- Mark


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/