Java In Review

Java 0

• JDK Version 1.0
• Codenamed Oak
• Released on January 23, 1996

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Java 1

• JDK Version 1.1
• Released on February 19, 1997

Features

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

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Java 2

• J2SE Version 1.2
• Code named Playground
• Released on December 8, 1998

Features

• 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 & more.
• Audio support in Applets.

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Java 3

• J2SE Version 1.3
• Code named Kestrel
• Released on May 8, 2000

Features

• Java Sound
• Jar Indexing
• A huge list of enhancements

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Java 4

• J2SE Version 1.4                                      First release under JCP
• Code named Merlin
• Released on February 6, 2002

Features

• Assertions
• Preferences API
• Chained Exception
• IPv6 Support
• Regular Expressions
• Image I/O API

• XML Processing
• Java Print Service
• Logging API
• Java Web Start
• JDBC 3.0 API

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Java 5

• J2SE Version 5.0
• Code named Tiger
• Released on September 30, 2004

Features

• Generics
• Enhanced for Loop
• Autoboxing/Unboxing
• Typesafe Enums
• Varargs
• Static Import
• Metadata (Annotations)
• Instrumentation

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Java 6

• Java Version SE 6
• Code named Mustang
• Released on December 11, 2006

Features

• 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.

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Java 7

• Java Version SE 7
• Code named Dolphin
• Released on July 28, 2011

Features

• 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

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Java 8

• Java SE 8
• Code named none
• Released on March 18, 2014

Features

• 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

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Java 9

• Java SE 9
• Code named none
• Due July 27, 2017

Features

• Java 9 REPL (JShell)
• Private methods in Interfaces
• Multi-Resolution Image API
• Miscellaneous Java 9 Features
• Diamond Operator for Anonymous Inner Class
• Enhanced @Deprecated annotation
• Factory Methods for Immutable List, Set, Map & Map.Entry
• Various Improvements: Process API, Optionals, Stream API,
  Try With Resources, CompletableFuture API

• Java 9 Module System
• Reactive Streams
• HTTP 2 Client