#mark reinhold

It’s official. Mark Reinhold, the Java platform’s Chief Architect, has announced that JDK 8 will arrive 18 March 2014.

Scope of Project Lambda causes slip in complete milestone admits Chief Architect, and Project Lambda will need “more time”.

That time of week again – featuring music royalty, James Gosling, boxing robots and questionable dancing

Mark Reinhold’s forthright explanation of Project Jigsaw’s delay has failed to quell dissent – but we agree that it’s probably the right call.

Java 8 and Java SE 8 are stirring, with Chief Architect Mark Reinhold revealing more details of who is playing a part in August 2013’s big release. But no module system just yet!

Both sides have now rested their cases after a feisty round of rebuttals. Now it’s down to the jury. James Gosling also reiterated his views on the case

Change of plans for Oracle’s OpenJDK as fully open JIRA is pushed further down the line

JSRs 334, 335, 336 and 337 pass the EC vote.

Oracle have submitted JSRs to the JCP vote, complete with explicit Field Of Use clause.