JSR 201 and Non-Disruptive Language Extensions.
Looks like there's a new JSR in the JCP, the following will be added to J2SE 1.5:
- Enumerated Types.
- An automatic conversion of primitives to their object wrappers.
- Enhanced for loops.
- Unqualified constants.
[::Manageability::]
With these, plus the metadata JSR, Java is pulling in most of the good ideas in C#. Since the two are so similar, they could go into some kind of feature-matching feedback loop for a long time to come. It's too bad that 1.5 is at least a year away, and that it will be another two years after that before these changes start to come into widespread use.
7:24:01 PM 
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