There have been many threads that correspond to this topic.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/116865/whats-the-current-state-of-closures-in-java http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233579/closures-in-java-7
All of the inputs have been that java 7 is NOT getting closures.
It seems however closures will now be in java 7:
Does anyone have any other information or insight to this possibility? Can anyone furthermore confirm or deny the state of closures?