New Features in Java 7

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Java 7 also known as Dolphin is going to be available from 28 July 2011 .

The additional features for Java 7 are :

  • Support for dynamically typed languages – Extensions to the JVM, the Java language, and the Java SE API to support the implementation of dynamically-typed languages at performance levels near to that of the Java language itself.
  • Language changes –
    • Strings in Switch statements
    • Try with resources statements
    • Improved type inference for generic instance creation – “Diamond”
    • Simplified varargs method invocation
    • Better integral literals
    • Improved exception handling (multi-catch)
  • Concurrency & Collection utilities – A lightweight fork/join framework, flexible and reusable synchronization barriers, transfer queues, concurrent linked double-ended queues, and thread-local pseudo-random number generators
  • New I/O APIs for the Java Platform – New file I/O library to enhance platform independence and add support for metadata and symbolic links. The new packages are java.nio.file and java.nio.file.attribute
  • Library-level support for Elliptic curve cryptography algorithms.
  • An XRender pipeline – A new Java2D graphics pipeline based upon the X11 XRender extension, which provides access to much of the functionality of modern GPUs
  • New platform APIs for the graphics features originally planned for release in Java version 6u10
  • Gervill sound synthesizer – To drop the old, proprietary, encumbered sound synthesizer in favor of Gervill, a synthesizer created as a proposal for the Audio Synthesis Engine Project.
  • Update the XML stack – Upgrade the components of the XML stack to the most recent stable versions: JAXP 1.4, JAXB 2.2a, and JAX-WS 2.2

Some features like Java and VM support for modular programming, Annotation on java types , language support for collections, Project Lambda, swing application framework, modularization has been deferred to JAVA 8.


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