Highlights of Technology Changes in Java SE 7

The following list contains links to the enhancements pages in the Java SE 7 guides documentation. Choose a technology for further information. (Code named Dolphin and released on July 28, 2011)

·         Swing

·         IO and New IO

Dolphin 

·         Networking

·         Security

·         Concurrency Utilities

·         Rich Internet Applications (RIA)/Deployment

§ Requesting and Customizing Applet Decoration in Dragg able Applets

§ Embedding JNLP File in Applet Tag

§ Deploying without Codebase

§ Handling Applet Initialization Status with Event Handlers

·         Java 2D

·         Java XML - JAXP, JAXB, and JAX-WS

·         Internationalization

·         java.lang Package

§ Multithreaded Custom Class Loaders in Java SE 7

·         Java Programming Language

§ Binary Literals

§ Strings in switch Statements

§ The try-with-resources Statement

§ Catching Multiple Exception Types and Rethrowing Exceptions with Improved Type Checking

§ Underscores in Numeric Literals

§ Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation

§ Improved Compiler Warnings and Errors When Using Non-Reifiable Formal Parameters with Varargs Methods

·         Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

§ Java Virtual Machine Support for Non-Java Languages

§ Garbage-First Collector

§ Java HotSpot Virtual Machine Performance Enhancements

·         JDBC