If you want a quick and easy way to find out what exactly is new in Java 7, take a look at this short series of videos.
There isn't a great deal to add to these videos except that they are difficult to find as a set. They are all courtesy of Oracle via the offical Java You Tube channel:
Part One - Project Coin
Part Two - NIO
Part Three - Concurrency
Part Four - GUI (It claims to be part three)
It isn't clear if they will be a fifth part, but if there is it will be added to this list.
How fast things move from theoretical, through experimental to implementation. It was only recently that a semi-practical scheme for homomorphic encryption was invented and we already have an op [ ... ]
If the Internet of Things is ever going to take off, we need cheap connected computing devices. The miniSWARM is only $20 and it's a WiFi mesh-connected Arduino - and that's just a start.
