What's Cooking in Java 8 - Project Jigsaw

What is Project Jigsaw: Project Jigsaw is the project to make the java compiler module aware. For years java API has been monolithic, i.e. the whole API was seen from any part of the code equally. There has also not been any way to declare a code's dependency on any other user libraries. Project Jigsaw attempts to solve these problems along with others in a very eligant way. In this article, I will highlight the basic concepts of Jigsaw module systems and also explain how it would work with the commands so as to provide a real feel of it. Currently, Jigsaw is targetted to be included in the release of Java 8. In my opinion, this is a change bigger than generics that came with verion 5 of java platform.

What's Cooking in Java 8 - Project Lambda

What is project lambda: Project lambda is the project to enable lambda expressions in java language syntax. Lambda expressions are major syntax in functional programming languages like lisp. Groovy would be the closest relative of java that has support for lambda expressions, also known as closures.

What's new in Java 7 - Project Coin

What's new in Java 7: Well, its a major version upgrade, there needs to be a lot of things coming up. Of course the most noticeable feature set for a java programmer would be the language level change, i.e. Project Coin. Although the changes are not as major as generics (that came with version 5, which was the time they dropped the "1." from the version number.) or annotations (also came with the same version). But, I guess they are at least as good as auto-boxing.

What is Project Coin: Project Coin or JSR334 is the common JSR that embraces all language level changes that comes in Java 7. I will talk about its features one by one.