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A standard mechanism for managing resources such as memory and network bandwidth in Java applications is advancing through the Java Community Process. Java Specification Request 284, which features an ...

The immediate future is Java 7, which is scheduled to be unleashed by September 2010; that may sound far off, but trust me, it’ll be here before you know it. Joe Wright has an excellent summary from ...