Java 7 Released
02 Aug 2011A few days ago Oracle announced the availability of their new Java 7 SDK. Some of of the major changes include -;
- New I/O APIs (Asynchronous I/O)
- Strings in switch statements
- Unicode 6.0
- Elliptic-curve cryptography
- Translucent and shaped windows
- Heavyweight/lightweight component mixing
- Swing Nimbus look-and-feel
- Swing JLayer component
- The integral types (byte, short, int and long) can also be expressed using the binary number system. To specify a binary literal, add the prefix
0bor0Bto the number. - Any number of underscore characters (
_) can appear anywhere between digits in a numerical literal. This feature enables you, for example, to separate groups of digits in numeric literals, which can improve the readability of your code. - You can replace the type arguments required to invoke the constructor of a generic class with an empty set of type parameters (
<>) as long as the compiler can infer the type arguments from the context. This pair of angle brackets is informally called the diamond. - A single catch block can handle more than one type of exception. This enables you to specify more specific exception types in the throws clause of a method declaration and reduces code repetition.
- The try with-resources statement is a try statement that declares one or more resources. A resource is an object that must be closed after the program is finished with it. The try with-resources statement ensures that each resource is closed at the end of the statement.
- Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4.5.