News Java Seeks Closure on Closures By Joab Jackson May 8, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- If there is one topic that seems to get Java programmers excited, it's the question of whether to include a new ...

Neal Gafter recently gave a presentation at JavaOne and Jazoon '07 entitled "Closures for Java". The presentation is an accessible but thorough introduction to closures, the goals, the problem ...

While the closures debate may seem best left to Java linguists, the inclusion of closures in Java 7 — or not — will ultimately affect anyone who writes Java code. In this article we provide an ...

The Java.net poll on most-missed Java 7 features showed closures being the most voted for “missed feature” with nearly half the votes.

While closures have been one of the most hotly discussed proposals for Java SE 7, I have personally been fairly ambivalent about them.