During the JDK7 update by Mark Reinhold, it was announced that closures are to be included in in JDK7 after all. Most people were happy but considered it very questionable to make this kind of decision so late in the process.
Personally I think it ties in with another important observation I made during this year's devoxx edition: Scala has become normal. A whole lot of people appear to have made the move. Scala gets attention in most of the presentations, and nobody considers it to be a novelty. If scala's adoption rate continues at the same pace, then I fear jdk7 + closures is once again going to be too little too late. The ship has sailed.
During the oracle keynote, I also paid attention to their wording regarding their promise of 'good stewardship' over the java platform, which I unfortunately have not memorized. It seemed to me that under oracle, the Java language is not going to be so much of a priority as the jvm.
I'll review when the keynote is published on parleys.com (the jdk7 update was not part of the keynote though, which it was last year. One might wonder why.)
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