IT Professional Curricula     Software Development Solution Area     Java 2 Programming     Java SE 7 New Features

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The release of Java SE 7 brings a number of new features and enhancements. This course introduces and describes these features and improvements. The course also describes the operating systems and browser support, and Java SE 7 support in NetBeans IDE 7.0.1. It explores Java language enhancements, such as using Strings in switch statements, improved integral literals, improved type inference, improved exception handling, the try-with-resources statement, and simplified varargs method invocation. Core technology enhancements, such as the JVM enhancements - support for dynamically typed languages, the garbage-first collector, and upgraded class-loader architecture - as well as concurrency and collections, and JDBC enhancements, are also covered.

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Objectives

Java Language and Technology Enhancements identify the new features of JDK 7 use language enhancements in JDK 7 Core Technology Enhancements in Java describe the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) enhancements in Java SE 7 describe the concurrency and collection enhancements in Java SE 7 describe the JDBC enhancements in Java SE 7 implement the Fork/Join framework use the ThreadLocalRandom class use JDBC enhancements