Jeez, they gotta just get it out there. The one thing that is almost certain is that whatever they schedule for 2012 will probably not appear in 2012 but rathe

Jeez, they gotta just get it out there. The one thing that is almost certain is that whatever they schedule for 2012 will probably not appear in 2012 but rather in 2014 or 2016 by which time several more "essential" features will have made it into Java and hence we will be reading a blog post about how it is now clear that the original schedule wasn't realistic and we should decide whether to split the release or combine the schedule with that of the newly acquired Duke Nukem forever and go for a big 2020 splash. Sigh. Right now, JDK7 is seeming to me a lot like Microsoft's Vista release.