Java 2007: Year in Preview from IBM DeveloperWorks

IBM DeveloperWorks has a nice round up of the last and coming years for Java. Highlights:
Before 2007 is half up, Sun will release the Java Development Kit (JDK) under an open source license. Freeing the JDK is a huge step for the Java developer community, and it will drive the evolution of the Java platform for the next decade.

Expect the quality of the JDK to improve dramatically as programmers stop merely reporting bugs and start fixing them. Bug reports at the Java Developer Connection will include detailed analysis of what’s broken in the JDK and provide patches for fixing it. As Linus’s Law states, “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” That is, debugging is parallelizable. The same is true of optimization. Open source makes both massively parallelizable.