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Monday, February 17, 2014

New Features in Java

There are many new features that have been added in java. There are major enhancement made in Java5, Java6 and Java7 like auto-boxinggenericsvar-argsjava annotationsenumpremain method etc.
Most of the interviewers ask questions from this chapter.
J2SE 4 Features
  • Assertion (Java 4)
J2SE 5 Features
  • For-each loop (Java 5)
  • Varargs (Java 5)
  • Static Import (Java 5)
  • Autoboxing and Unboxing (Java 5)
  • Enum (Java 5)
  • Covariant Return Type (Java 5)
  • Annotation (Java 5)
  • Generics (Java 5)
JavaSE 6 Features
  • Instrumentation (premain method) (Java 6)
JavaSE 7 Features
  • Binary Literals (Java 7)
  • Underscores in Numeric Literals (Java 7)

The important feature of J2SE 4 is assertions. It is used for testing.
The important features of J2SE 5 are generics and assertions. Others are auto-boxing, enum, var-args, static import, for-each loop (enhanced for loop) etc.
The important feature of JavaSE 6 is premain method (also known as instrumentation).
The important features of JavaSE 7 are try with resource, catching multiple exceptions etc.

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