'Project Coin' or Small language changes in Java 7 came to a conclusion. And the final changes making their way into Java 7 have been annonuced, they are:
* Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation(Diamond) * Simplified Varargs Method Invocation * Strings in switch * An omnibus proposal for better integral literals * Automatic Resource Management * Language support for JSR 292 * Language support for Collections
Rémi Forax blog entry provides more details on this annonucement, read Rémi's post 'The seven small languages changes that will be in JDK7': http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/29/seven-small-languages-changes-will-be-jdk7