JDK 7: Are we there yet?

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

Very nearly ...

Build 146 has been tagged in the JDK 7 master forest.  We're still
chasing down a few bugs, so this isn't quite a Release Candidate, but
it's very close.  Binaries of this build will undergo a final round of
JCK testing and then, if all goes well, be declared the Reference
Implementation [1] of Java SE 7 (JSR 336) [2].

(The candidate RI binaries will be made available shortly.)

Of note in this build is the first update to JavaDoc's default display
style in many years [3].  This is enabled by other recent work on the
long-neglected JavaDoc tool [4], in particular the change to leverage
Cascading Style Sheets more thoroughly so that most aspects of the
display style can be changed simply by providing a new stylesheet.

- Mark


[1] http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the
[2] http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=336
[3] http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/
[4] http://blogs.oracle.com/jjg/entry/what_s_up_javadoc