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I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

don't forgot to add Hibernate to that for everyone still living in 2004

That depends if you mean Java the language or Java the platform. Java the language is to include immutable collection literals in JDK8:

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337

Today Java lets you do the following:

List<String> myList = Arrays.asList("one", "two", "three");

Scala and Groovy which target the JVM let you do things like:

Scala: val myList = List("one", "two", "three")

Groovy: def myList = ["one", "two", "three"]

Then there's JRuby, Jython etc.

Collection literals for inclusion in JDK8:

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=337