Article: Java 2007: The year in preview
Java 2007: The year in preview by Elliotte Harold, Adjunct Professor, Polytechnic University at IBM DeveloperWorks
2007 will go down in history as the year Sun Microsystems gave up the reins of the Java™ platform, releasing it under an open source license to the Java developer community. In this article, Java developer Elliotte Rusty Harold predicts new directions for the Java platform, in everything from scripting to bug fixing to new syntax.