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nobbis writes "Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available. Early Access Release Candidate 2 was made available for download last week. Lambda Functions and a new Date Time API are major features of Java 8, with some lesser known performance enhancements, which are discussed by Drew Stephens in his blog Atomic Number Implementation. Oracle's head Java Evangelist Simon Ritter gives a run through of new features in this presentation to the Virtual Java User Group. Project Jigsaw has been delayed again and is now scheduled for release with Java 9."
The bug report looks healthy and Java 8 is due for release on March 17th -- St. Patrick's Day.
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(Score: 1) by Optimus Prime on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:41AM
Would that allow Minecraft to embed their needed Java modules inside the game instead of me having to install and update the bulky Java software for security updates all the time?
(Score: 3, Informative) by SpallsHurgenson on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:56AM
I would imagine Minecraft is the main reason for Java on a lot of home computers these days. While I still see business apps (usually horribly outdated and requiring an equally deprecated version of Java) around, I can't think of any app that is widely used by Joe Average user on his home PC. On the web, Flash (and lately HTML5) have taken over that side of things, and generally Windows users are quite willing to download and standard executables (which have the advantage of not requiring a side-download of the JRE).
Ellison should pay Notch a lot of money to keep using Java or Oracle could see its home user numbers drop overnight ;-)
(Score: 1) by dilbert on Tuesday February 18 2014, @03:02PM
This is what haunts my dreams at night!
(Score: 2, Informative) by monster on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:06PM
Java is also used in a lot of home computers in Spain because the AEAT (spanish IRS) offers several multiplatform assistants to do your taxes and they are programmed in Java. There has even been a Linux version for some years now.
Hey, when a government does something right, it deserves some credit.
(Score: 1) by KibiByte on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:09AM
Notch could have probably compiled this in Excelsior JET and everything would sit in a single binary, excepting savefile stuff.
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(Score: 1) by bugamn on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:28PM
Would it keep its portability if compiled this way?
(Score: 1) by KibiByte on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:45PM
Well, the issue here is that what I'm talking about really only applies to executable files/programs, not websites (like the JET compiled version of TuxGuitar versus the Java-required installer.) In essence, I guess with proper programming everyone could just load a SoylentNews EXE and get the latest news. Maybe have a web browser secured and baked in with the bare feature-set required. However, that shit would need to be secured heavily, plugin or standalone.
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(Score: 1) by bugamn on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:39PM
But would this JET compiled SoylentNews EXE load on Windows, Mac and Linux? Minecraft would lose part of its appeal with me if I couldn't play it on Linux anymore.
(Score: 1) by KibiByte on Wednesday February 19 2014, @11:09PM
I do believe JET will compile into executable binaries for Linux and Windows and OSX.
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