burek for breakfast - OpenJDK In The News: Oracle Continues to Move Java Forward and Details Java SE 8 Roadmap

Oracle is releasing technology previews of both Java SE 7 and Java FX 2.0 on Mac OS X, with plans to release Java SE 7 on Mac OS X for developers in Q2 2012 followed by a consumer version later in 2012.

The OpenJDK Community hosts the development of Java SE 7 on Mac OS X and JDK 8, the prototype reference implementation of Java SE 8.

The OpenJDK Community continues to thrive with contributions from Oracle, as well as other companies, researchers, and individuals.

Twitter recently joined the OpenJDK Community. Twitter engineers can now participate fully in OpenJDK development and plan to contribute some of their internal improvements to the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to OpenJDK.

“Oracle remains firmly committed to advancing Java SE and will continue to collaborate with the Java community on the evolution of the Java platform through OpenJDK and the Java Community Process. We are very pleased with the progress we’ve made together over the past year – particularly, with the Java SE 7 release,” said Adam Messinger, vice president of development, Oracle Fusion Middleware. “It’s an exciting time in Java development and we’ll continue to move Java forward with updates like the Mac OS X port and our plans for Java SE 8.”