First feedback from project Coin

Starting in december 2008 Joseph D. Darcy announced Project Coin. The goal of Project Coin is to determine what set of small language changes should be added to JDK 7. A call for proposals period will run until March 30, 2009.
The first 17 proposals are now available at Darcy's blog.

• Strings in switch,
  Joe Darcy
  
  
  
• Block Expressions for Java,
  Neal Gafter
  
  
  
  
• Improved Exception Handling for Java ,
  Neal Gafter
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Automatic Resource Management,
  Josh Bloch
  
  
  
  
• Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation,
  Jeremy Manson
  
  
  
  
  
• Improved Wildcard Syntax for Java,
  Neal Gafter
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Multiline strings,
  latest revision,
  Ruslan Shevchenko
  
  
• Use "default" keyword for default visibility,
  updated to use "package" instead,
  Adrian Kuhn
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Elvis and Other Null-Safe Operators,
  Written by Neal Gafter and submitted by Stephen Colebourne
  
  
  
• Simple Resource Clean-up,
  Roger Hernandez
  
  
  
• Import Aliases for Classes and Static Methods,
  Phil Varner
  
  
  
• Lightweight Properties,
  David Goodenough
  
  
  
  
  
• 'This' type,
  Marek Kozieł
  
  
  
  
• Static Methods in Interfaces,
  Reinier Zwitserloot
  
  
  
• fold keyword,
  Gabriel Belingueres
  
  
  
  
  
• Multiple switch expressions and case ranges,
  Pinku Surana
  
  
  
• Simplified Varargs Method Invocation,
  Bob Lee