The document discusses the goals and design of the new Java driver for MongoDB. The main goals are a cleaner design, more intuitive API, consistency across methods, sane exception handling, test friendliness, and backwards compatibility. Some key points are that the new driver has a cleaner object-oriented design compared to the legacy driver, the API is designed to be intuitive and consistent, exceptions are client-side instead of parsing strings, and the driver is designed to be backwards compatible while improving testability.