Java 7 : Java Glossary

Java 7 is the seventh major release of the Java language, runtime and compiler. Marketing people and book authors refer to it as Java 7. Technical people call it Java 1.7. It has a number of new features, most minor tweakings to the Java syntax.

• You can use understores in numeric literals to break them up to make them more readable and proofreadable. The compiler ignores them.
• The diamond operator means you can often leave out generic types on the right hand side. They are infered from the left hand side.
• You can use Strings as case labels.
• You can use a single catch to handle several exceptions.
• You can treat a zip file as if it were a directory tree.
• Resources that implement java.lang.AutoCloseable can be automatically closed no matter what by declaring them in the try statement.
• NIO (New Input/Output) now handles symbolic links and works more consistently across OSes (Operating Systems).
• WatchService lets you be notified if someone changes a directory or file.
• ForkJoinPool makes it easier to spread the workload over several cores.
• The JVM (Java Virtual Machine) now has features to support dynamically typed languages.
• Support for Unicode 6
• binary literals
• No longer need CODEBASE in JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol)
• Support for SSL/TLS 1.2
• @Override used to be illegal on methods inherited directly from an interface, being allowed only on methods that overrode a parent class definition. Since Java 1.6 you can and should use @Override on methods that implement an interface method directly.
• You can emebed the entire JNLP file in the HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) Applet tag, Base-64 encoded.
• Enhanced java.util.Currency to handle international currencies using ISO (International Standards Organisation) 4217 codes

Books

Book referral for Java 7 New Features Cookbook

	recommend book⇒Java 7 New Features Cookbook
	by	Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese	978-1-84968-562-7	paperback
	publisher	Packt	978-1-84968-563-4	WebBook
	published	2012-02-23	B007E6YCC0	kindle
It covers only Java features introduced in Java 7, things such things as the diamond operator, catching multiple exceptions, symbolic links, POSIX file attributes, ACL, ZIP filesystems, Currency.
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Book referral for Java 7: A Beginner’s Tutorial, third edition

	recommend book⇒Java 7: A Beginner’s Tutorial, third edition
	by	Budi Kurniawan	978-0-9808396-1-6	paperback
	publisher	BrainySoftware	978-0-9808396-1-6	eBook
	published	2011-10-01	B005NINIX0	kindle
Covers all of Java, not just the new features in Java 1.7.
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