Overview of JDK7 Platform
- JDK 7 Platform: OS Support
- JDK 7 Platform: Browser Support
- Overview of the new featues
Language Enhancements
- Strings in Switch
- The try-with-resources Statement
- Type inference for generic instance creation
- Implemeting binary literals
- Catching multiple exception types and rethrowing exceptions with improved type checking
- Improved varargs method invocations
Core Technologies Enhancements
- Support for dynamically-typed languages
- Enhancements in the class-loader architecture
- Enhancement in the swing package
- Optimized Java2D rendering
- Enhancement in the XML stack
- Collections framework enhancements
- Concurrency utilities enhancements
- Support for JDBC 4.1 and RowSet 1.1
I/O and Network Enhancements
- New APIs for file system access
- The java.nio.file package
- Describe Stream Control Transmission Protocol
- Describe Sockets Direct Protocol
- Use the Windows Vista IPv6 stack