Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Java Version History


Java Version History
Thought to share some of the old Java version released
New features in Java SE 7
Code named Dolphin and released on July 28, 2011.
  • 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

New features in Java SE 6
Code named Mustang and released on December 11, 2006
  • 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.
New features in J2SE 5.0
Code named Tiger and released on September 30, 2004.
  • Generics
  • Enhanced for Loop
  • Autoboxing/Unboxing
  • Typesafe Enums
  • Varargs
  • Static Import
  • Metadata (Annotations)
  • Instrumentation
New features in J2SE 1.4
Code named Merlin and released on February 6, 2002 (first release under JCP)
  • 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
New features in J2SE 1.3
Code named Kestrel and released on May 8, 2000.
  • Java Sound
  • Jar Indexing
  • A huge list of enhancements in almost all the java area.

New features in J2SE 1.2

Code named Playground and released on December 8, 1998.
  • 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.

New features in JDK 1.1

  • JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
  • Inner Classes
  • Java Beans
  • RMI (Remote Method Invocation)
  • Reflection (introspection only)

JDK Version 1.0

Codenamed Oak and released on January 23, 1996.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 11, 2013 at 10:29 AM

    automatic null handling in java 7 ???
    did i miss something?

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  2. UnknownMarch 11, 2013 at 11:19 AM

    Means its null safe pls refer below link

    http://blog.joda.org/2009/01/java-7-null-default-and-null-safe_7527.html?m=1


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  3. David P. CaldwellMarch 11, 2013 at 1:32 PM

    I'm pretty sure that didn't happen for Java 7; the link just refers to the plan to include it in Java 7 (but predates Java 7).

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  4. AnonymousMarch 11, 2013 at 9:03 PM

    http://blog.joda.org/2009/01/java-7-null-default-and-null-safe_7527.html?m=1 is someone's 2009 wish list item for jdk7.

    I suggest you read the jdk release notes for each version to see what changes have been made and new features introduced.

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  5. UnknownMarch 11, 2013 at 10:49 PM

    Thanks for pointing It. Rectified

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