Is anyone here developing java software using those Java 7 binary snapshots ?
Im very excited about the X11 render pipeline.
Looks interesting on what there adding to it. The new file stuff is really needed (though I really need this now).
Anyone know when the beta is going to come out?
The author of that pipeline is our very own Clemens aka LinuxHippy! Pretty cool 8)
If it works then it should make cross platforming really easy
Gee, that new pipeline does sound exciting! If it really works and makes use of hardware acceleration, image what we will be able to do with applets. ;D Maybe for some applets, GL rendering can be replaced with software rendering, and that means no more stupid security dialogs just for native libs.
Ah found the milestone info: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/milestones/
RC will be about 2010/01/01
Cool can’t wait.
Java 7 looks like its gonna be a nice release, one of my favourite features is that Escape Analysis is enabled by default, nice performance boost from that, see http://www.java.net/blogs/forax for a bit more info on it.
To bad progress on Tiered Compilation is dead, was really hoping for that to make it in.
That’s great news, but a real shame that the two-tier compiler’s been delayed.
Cas 
Would somebody know, whether escape analysis handles autoboxing nowadays better? In some very early benchmarks it was noticed that because autoboxing uses Integer.valueOf(int), which uses a cache of small integer values, the escape analysis was not able to optimize those allocations away (i.e. code that used new Integer() ran faster than the autoboxing version).
I expect somebody will address that in due course… in the meantime, autoboxing is not a performance tactic in the first place
Cas