Yes (lambda/closures - NOT), and (NOT) the "modularization" change where they were going to separately bundle groups of packages.

The modularization/bundling features also sound like/related-to the maven-ish extension discussed (somewhere) to put versions on these bundles and "even more public than public" specifiers on things to be exported from the modules themselves, as opposed to merely "public", but only between packages within the module. These changes sounded like they would relieve some of the DLL^H^H^Hjar hell with code needing different versions of 3rd party libs (e.g. - Axis-of-evil).

So, yeah, some corporate exec checklist features, but little for developer productivity / sanity added. Sadness.

Not all the good stuff. Project Coin is a much needed feature, more specifically multi-catch, switch over strings and resource management.

if they really got JMX to work fine over firewalls without me spending half an hour every time, that is enough for a major release tailored to me :)