Mansukhdeep Thind wrote:No disrespect meant to the guys at Oracle, but I personally believe that since it has become a proprietary product, major screw ups have started happening.
The fact is that it has always been a proprietary product (just ask Microsoft). The question is: how is Oracle
managing it? First impressions would suggest 'not well'. Sun managed 6 releases of Java with nary a problem (certainly no 'zero-day' bugs).
Now, there may be many reasons for this; not least of which might be:
their agenda for the language as a whole (I love conspiracy theories )pressure to implement changes offered by other competing languagesBut there's no doubt that this has been a cock-up of
major proportions.
All that said, I'm with you:
VERY glad that I haven't started using v7. If it had included JSR-310, I easily might have.
@Levente: I hope you read the caveat to my first post. What Campbell posted may well be the problem.
Winston