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01 Java Newfeatures

The document discusses the new features introduced in various versions of Java from Java 8 to the initial release of Java. Major features included lambda expressions, streams, date/time API, and removal of PermGen error in Java 8 as well as generics, annotations and enhanced for loops in Java 5.

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01 Java Newfeatures

The document discusses the new features introduced in various versions of Java from Java 8 to the initial release of Java. Major features included lambda expressions, streams, date/time API, and removal of PermGen error in Java 8 as well as generics, annotations and enhanced for loops in Java 5.

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Java New Features:

Java 8:
Java 8 was released on 18 March 2014. The code name culture is dropped with Java 8 and so no
official code name going forward from Java 8.
New features in Java SE 8
 Lambda Expressions
 Pipelines and Streams
 Date and Time API
 Default Methods
 Type Annotations
 Nashhorn JavaScript Engine
 Concurrent Accumulators
 Parallel operations
 PermGen Error Removed
 TLS SNI

Java SE 7:
Code named Dolphin and released on July 28, 2011.
New features in Java SE 7
 Strings in switch Statement
 Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation
 Multiple Exception Handling
 Support for Dynamic Languages
 Try with Resources
 Java nio Package
 Binary Literals, underscore in literals
 Diamond Syntax
 Automatic null Handling
Java SE 6:
Code named Mustang and released on December 11, 2006.
New features in Java SE 6
 Scripting Language Support
 JDBC 4.0 API
 Java Compiler API
 Pluggable Annotations
 Native PKI, Java GSS, Kerberos and LDAP support.
 Integrated Web Services.
 Lot more enhancements.
Java SE 5:
Code named Tiger and released on September 30, 2004.
New features in J2SE 5.0
 Generics
 Enhanced for Loop
 Auto boxing/Unboxing
 Typesafe Enums
 Varargs
 Static Import
 Metadata (Annotations)
 Instrumentation
Java SE 4:

Code named Merlin and released on February 6, 2002 (first release under JCP).

New features in J2SE 1.4

 XML Processing
 Java Print Service
 Logging API
 Java Web Start
 JDBC 3.0 API
 Assertions
 Preferences API
 Chained Exception
 IPv6 Support
 Regular Expressions
 Image I/O API
J2SE Version 1.3:
Code named Kestrel and released on May 8, 2000.
New features in J2SE 1.3
 Java Sound
 Jar Indexing
 A huge list of enhancements in almost all the java area.
J2SE Version 1.2:
Code named Playground and released on December 8, 1998.
New features in J2SE 1.2
 Collections framework.
 Java String memory map for constants.
 Just In Time (JIT) compiler.
 Jar Signer for signing Java ARchive (JAR) files.
 Policy Tool for granting access to system resources.
 Java Foundation Classes (JFC) which consists of Swing 1.0, Drag and Drop, and Java 2D
class libraries.
 Java Plug-in
 Scrollable result sets, BLOB, CLOB, batch update, user-defined types in JDBC.
 Audio support in Applets.
J2SE Version 1.1:
Code named Playground and released on February 19, 1997.
New features in JDK 1.1
 JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
 Inner Classes
 Java Beans
 RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
 Reflection (introspection only).
J2SE Version 1.1:
Codenamed Oak and released on January 23, 1996.

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