Cool new features in Java 7: Any caveats?

[charlsy chuks]

Now I like Java 7 and totally like the features its offering: Diamond Syntax, String enabled switch, try-catch with resources,
enhanced syntax for literals etc. I am just sharing a concern I have about the paradigm shift one would have to
engage in whenever the need to work on different projects at the same time arises.

Just imagine a .NET programmer that codes in C# working on a project and all of a sudden is assigned to work on a Java 7 project.
(this is likely sometime in the future ). The changes in Java 7 may not be too drastic but some of them are mind-shifting.

However, it is these changes that make Java 7 tick. I equally foresee professionals writing C# style code in Java 7 or vice versa depending on
which they spend more time with and making mistakes first few times as they violate syntax rules-again this is fun (if you don't have a deadline
breathing heavily down your neck). I guess we will eventually get used to it. Java 7 IS SO COOL!

[Martijn Verburg]

C# has actually had the lead on Java for the last few years in terms of its feature set. .NET developers will find things like try-with-resources to be very familiar as they already having the

using

clause in C#. We don't anticipate any problems for our .NET friends coming across to the light side ;-)

[Abhay Agarwal]

One caveat that I can think of - using Diamond operators. Using Diamond operator reduces code readability.