In what is the first major update to the programming language in more than five years, Oracle has shipped Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7), the company announced Thursday.
This is the first release of Java SE under Oracle's stewardship.
"We all know for various business and political reasons that this release has taken some time," admitted Oracle chief Java architect Mark Reinhold in a webcast earlier this month.
By Oracle's estimate, 9 million developers worldwide use Java. Tiobe Software estimates it is the world's most widely used programming language, edging out C and trumping C++ with twice as many users. More than 3 billion devices run Java, and it is deployed by 97% of enterprise desktops worldwide. Each year, the Java runtime is downloaded more than a billion times.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218721/
This is the first release of Java SE under Oracle's stewardship.
"We all know for various business and political reasons that this release has taken some time," admitted Oracle chief Java architect Mark Reinhold in a webcast earlier this month.
By Oracle's estimate, 9 million developers worldwide use Java. Tiobe Software estimates it is the world's most widely used programming language, edging out C and trumping C++ with twice as many users. More than 3 billion devices run Java, and it is deployed by 97% of enterprise desktops worldwide. Each year, the Java runtime is downloaded more than a billion times.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218721/