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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.