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Like in past years, I'm following JavaOne from afar. All I have access to are the general sessions and attendee's blog reactions to specific sessions on JavaLobby, java.net, JavaBlogs, and StuffThatHappens. And on Tuesday's session, I heard Danny Coward talking about new features for Java 7,

which, BTW, is scheduled for Summer of 2009.

This, I suppose, is the same talk as the one I mentioned 509 days ago. However, the scope has clearly shrunk quite a bit.

Today's quiz is a rhetorical one:

Q: What is your favorite new Java language feature that did not make it into Java 7?

I'll start with mine:

• XML literal (I'm virtually alone on this one, but still...)
• Properties (can anyone tell if it's in or not?)
• Reified types for Java generics (Erase Erasure, as I've call it 475 days ago)